Principal Data

1 day ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Evolution Australia Full time $120,000 - $240,000 per year

Principal Data & AI Platform Engineer (Contract)


Sydney
|
Contract until June 2025 (extension likely)
|
Immediate start

Join a leading Australian enterprise to work on a
greenfield AI platform initiative
that will build the foundations for secure, scalable, and production-ready AI across the organisation.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you'll help
design, build, and operationalise an enterprise-grade AI Workbench platform
that will empower data scientists and analysts to experiment, deploy, and scale ML models and generative AI use cases.

About the Project

You'll be joining a new initiative to create an
AI Workbench platform
that unifies data science and ML development across the organisation. The platform will:

  • Enable rapid experimentation with ML models and LLM prompts
  • Streamline and standardise tooling for AI/ML workflows
  • Provide secure, governed, and scalable access to data and compute
  • Lay the foundation for enterprise-scale AI production capabilities

Built on
AWS
using services like
SageMaker, Bedrock, S3, RDS, and Teradata
, this platform will support three core components:

  • ML Workbench
    – for model development and experimentation
  • Gen AI Workbench
    – for prompt engineering and generative AI innovation
  • Enterprise AI Platform
    – for production deployment and inference at scale

The Opportunity:

As
Principal Data & AI Platform Engineer
, you will:

  • Lead the build and operationalisation
    of the AI Workbench from early-stage architecture through to production delivery by June 2025
  • Design and implement
    cloud-native data and AI platform components with a focus on scalability, reproducibility, and governance
  • Collaborate with a cross-functional team
    (Product Owner, Cloud Engineer, Solution Architect) to define best practices for AI platform engineering
  • Drive continuous releases
    and platform enhancements, incorporating user feedback and evolving AI capabilities
  • Mentor engineers and uplift platform capability
    , shaping the engineering culture for this new initiative

What You'll Bring:

10+ years' experience building and operating large-scale data or AI/ML platforms in enterprise environments

Strong technical expertise across
AWS services
(SageMaker, Bedrock, S3, IAM, CloudFormation/Terraform, CI/CD)

Proven success establishing
platform engineering patterns and standards
in greenfield or early-stage initiatives

Hands-on experience in
AI/ML Ops
, secure data integration, and infrastructure automation

Strong problem-solving and communication skills, with the ability to translate architecture into actionable build plans

(Bonus) Familiarity with
GenAI, LLM orchestration, or prompt engineering

Why You'll Love It

  • Shape the direction of a
    strategic, enterprise-wide AI initiative
    from the ground up
  • Work with
    cutting-edge AWS technologies
    and emerging GenAI tools
  • Collaborate within a small, high-performing engineering team where your work has visible impact
  • Opportunity to
    extend beyond June 2025
    as the platform evolves and scales

Interested in hearing more? Apply today

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