Inspire People is partnering with Acora, a progressive full-stack, full-service business technology services partner built for the AI era, to appoint a Technical Program Lead with Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Fabric (essential) and desirable skills in C#, Apache Spark, PySpark, KQL, and Databricks, and AI exposure. This opportunity is suited to candidates with either a strong Technical Architecture background who have progressed into technical leadership and delivery roles, with strong customer stakeholder engagement skills. This is a contract role based in Sydney, for an initial 6 month period with the opportunity for a permanent role. Competitive day rate.

Role Overview

As Technical Delivery Lead you will own and drive the technical delivery programme for a major enterprise customers, providing architectural leadership, mentoring engineering teams, and ensuring successful business outcomes.

This role combines strategic leadership with hands-on technical depth, working closely with customer stakeholders, engineering teams, and Microsoft account representatives to shape platform evolution and technical strategy.

Ideally you will have strong expertise in Azure, distributed data platforms, and modern software architecture, alongside the communication and leadership skills to influence and advise at C-level.

Role Responsibilities Architecture & Engineering Leadership

- Lead the design and delivery of complex cloud and data solutions on Azure
- Produce and assure both high-level and low-level architecture designs
- Define standards, patterns, and best practices across engineering teams
- Provide technical oversight across multiple concurrent workstreams
- Ensure solutions meet requirements for scalability, performance, and security
- Mentor and coach engineering teams on modern engineering practices
- Support upskilling in areas such as data engineering, DevOps, and automation




- Champion continuous improvement and engineering excellence
- Act as a trusted technical advisor to CTO-level stakeholders
- Lead technical workshops, discovery sessions, and design forums
- Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
- Build strong relationships with customer leadership and engineering teams
- Attend on-site client meetings and cooperative sessions as required

Microsoft Engagement & Strategic Alignment

- Collaborate with Microsoft account teams on product alignment and roadmap planning
- Stay informed on platform evolution to influence customer adoption strategies
- Identify opportunities for joint innovation and capability uplift
- Contribute to statements of work, proposals, estimates, and roadmaps
- Help identify technical risks and define mitigation strategies
- Support governance, reporting, and stakeholder alignment activities

Key Skills, Knowledge & Experience

Software & Data

- C#: Deep expertise in .NET development and building high-performance applications.
- SQL: Strong database design, advanced query writing, and performance tuning skills.
- Apache Spark: Hands-on experience developing and optimizing distributed data-processing pipelines.
- PySpark: Proven ability to deliver production-grade Spark workloads in PySpark; Scala familiarity beneficial.
- KQL: Solid experience writing effective Kusto queries for analytics and monitoring.
- Azure networking and Entra ID
- Event-driven architectures: Event Grid, Event Hub, Service Bus
- Design of Landing Zones and Enterprise Data Mesh architectures
- Azure Databricks (5+ years)
- Azure Fabric / Synapse (3+ years)

Data Governance

- Experience with Microsoft Purview and governance frameworks

Delivery & Leadership

- Experience leading technical workshops and architecture forums
- Strong technical presentation skills (PowerPoint)
- Comfort working across organisational boundaries

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