At Intelligen, we’re building something different. Over the past three years, we’ve evolved from a bold startup to a trusted partner for some of Australia’s most complex data transformations. We’ve helped organisations move from legacy to modern platforms, embedded governance into decision-making, and brought AI into the hands of the business - responsibly and at speed.
As we continue to grow, we’re looking for senior leaders who can operate at the intersection of advanced analytics, data strategy, and modern architecture. This is a role for someone who doesn’t just design technical solutions, but helps clients navigate ambiguity, shape strategy, and build secure, scalable data capability that delivers measurable business value.
We’re seeking a Principal Data Consultant to lead high-impact engagements where analytics, insight, and enterprise data architecture converge, bringing trusted advisory capability, deep technical expertise, and delivery leadership to some of the most important transformation programs in market.
About the Role
We are seeking a Principal Data Consultant who can design, deliver, and scale advanced analytics and insight solutions in complex enterprise environments.
This role combines deep technical expertise with strategic advisory capability. You will lead high-impact engagements where data, analytics, and architecture intersect, helping organisations translate ambitious goals into secure, production-grade platforms and decisioning capabilities that drive real outcomes.
You will operate as both architect and trusted advisor, guiding executive stakeholders through the evolution of their analytics maturity while ensuring solutions align to secure-by-design principles, strong governance, and modern data management practices.
This role is ideal for someone who thrives in complexity, can lead multidisciplinary teams across data engineering, analytics, and platform architecture, and is motivated by solving important client problems with clarity, rigour, and commercial focus.
What You’ll Do
Requirements
Core Principles for This Role
At Intelligen, we evaluate leaders not only on what they deliver, but how they think, operate, and create impact. For this role, we are especially looking for evidence of the following:
Judgment Under Ambiguity
The ability to make strong decisions with incomplete information, navigate uncertainty, and create direction in complex environments.
Insight-Led Thinking
A consistent ability to connect data, context, and business priorities to generate clear, actionable insight that supports better decision-making.
Secure-by-Design Thinking
A disciplined approach to embedding security, governance, privacy, and risk into architecture and delivery decisions from day one.
Value Creation
A focus on measurable business outcomes, ensuring strategy, analytics, and technology choices translate into meaningful impact.
Trajectory
Evidence that the candidate can already operate one level above the role, with the leadership maturity and strategic capability to scale with the business and our clients.
Systems Thinking
The ability to connect strategy, data, analytics, operations, and architecture into coherent solutions that work in practice — not just in theory.
Benefits
We’re not just delivering AI and data projects.. we’re humanising them. That means we care deeply about the how, not just the what. We value curiosity, creativity, and a willingness to challenge the status quo. We look for people who are driven to build a business, get curious, and offer opinions and ideas.
You’ll join a team that’s smart, kind, and ambitious. You’ll have real influence - in your projects, your practice, and the broader business. And as we grow, so will you.
We’re not just delivering AI and data projects.. we’re humanising them. That means we care deeply about the how, not just the what. We value curiosity, creativity, and a willingness to challenge the status quo. We look for people who are driven to build a business, get curious, and offer opinions and ideas.
You’ll join a team that’s smart, kind, and ambitious. You’ll have real influence - in your projects, your practice, and the broader business. And as we grow, so will you. Here’s what that looks like:
Grow With Purpose
Support That Helps You Thrive
A Community You’ll Enjoy Being Part Of
If you want to be part of a team that cares just as much about how we deliver as what we deliver; where curiosity is valued, ideas matter, and your impact is felt - drop us a message and start the conversation today.
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The engine behind intelligence powering business; we're on a mission to place the power of data back into the hands who need it most.
We’ve identified an emerging gap between data harnessing, predictive, and AI technology advancing at the speed of light and those who are struggling to keep up and make sense of it all!
At Intelligen, we go beyond just the technical by leveraging expertise on leading-edge data platform technologies that focus on automation as well as utilising our business-centric frameworks to identify the right operating models, architecture and way of working for your organisation to actually move the needle on on your data maturity all while measuring and articulating business value throughout the process.
We strongly believe in the trifecta of People, Process and Technology and have developed all our methodologies in line with this to not only move the needle but empower your business to continue to drive competitive advantage long after we've left you!
We're commercially-focused engineers, architects and strategists who partner with our clients to design solutions that provide a tangible return on investment by driving down costs of running and automating processes to free up our clients so they can focus on running their businesses!
