About us

Mantel is an Australian-owned IT Professional Services consultancy, focused on emerging technology to help advance our clients by leveraging AI, Digital, Cloud, Data & Security technology. We are a fully AI-enabled technology consultancy and the partner that bridges the gap between blue-sky ambition and practical steps to deliver value. Since our inception in November 2017, we have experienced remarkable growth across Australia & New Zealand and are honoured to be recognised as a Great Place to Work for 7 years in a row

We hire smart and talented people and get out of their way. As a principle-based organisation, we have a flat structure with no hierarchy. By focusing on our five principles and not getting caught up in red tape, we trust you to get the job done

Data&AI;

Working in data at Mantel means you'll be ahead of the curve. You can align to a particular cloud platform or remain cloud agnostic, specialising in analytics, data engineering, machine learning, analytics, or data science. You'll design and scale enterprise-level, fully automated Agentic AI solutions, and speed up data platform migrations.

About the role

As a Principal Data Engineer you will:

- Be responsible for technical excellence in the delivery of our projects. Proactively seek involvement from the wider Mantel technical teams to ensure consistency in technical delivery across projects.

- Be a leader whose technical leadership and influence spans across individuals, teams, entire accounts and the broader organisations both within Mantel, our clients, partners and the broader industry.

- Have a deep focus on leadership impact (e.g. people, project team health, organisation, tech).



Through this you are able to positively influence and guide Mantel teams and outcomes as a leading voice.

- Pioneer the adoption of new data architectures (e.g., unified real-time data/AI platforms) to unlock next-generation AI capabilities (e.g., large-scale GenAI, real-time reinforcement learning) across the business.

- Achieve customer satisfaction by leading data teams and delivering on data projects - sometimes concurrently - irrespective of size, complexity & ambiguity to achieve fantastic outcomes.

- Be able to quickly identify pain points in challenging projects and successfully course correct to get them back on track to achieve successful outcomes.

- Drive commercial growth by delivering projects to successful commercial outcomes, developing IP to enable unique offerings, identifying and pursuing new opportunities, persuasive conversations with clients, as well as having a meaningful impact across pre-sales initiatives, particularly with technical input and developing RFQs, RFPs, SOWs.

- Possess deep commercial awareness and help shape healthy project economics in various ways e.g. supporting resourcing decisions.

- Drive and maintain deep relationships with partners (e.g. Google, AWS, Databricks, dbt, Snowflake, Microsoft) and/or clients, supporting Mantel to be positioned as a partner & service provider of choice.





- Build Mantel’s reputation as a known expert through industry platforms, professional networks, and community events to enhance market awareness (e.g. blogs, technical talks, meet‑ups etc).

- Be a leading voice shaping the capability, domain and Mantel towards further standards of excellence and quality. Be able to identify areas of focus that have the biggest impact e.g. developing individuals, developing better processes and approaches, strategic recruitment.

What you’ll need to be successful:

- Extensive consulting and technical experience with a proven track record of influencing technical and business leaders at Head of, GM, and CxO levels.

- Robust understanding of the modern data stack and its role in creating AI-ready data architectures.

- Deep hands‑on knowledge of the modern data ecosystems (especially Databricks / Snowflake), with a focus on how these platforms enable enterprise-wide analytics. Technical brilliance across a broad range of cloud‑native services.

- Experience working on large engagements and the ability to understand complex customer requirements and apply technology solutions to meet business problems.

- Experience in large and complex RFP responses, solution design, ability to articulate the value proposition of an overall solution.

- Proven experience and ability to own the preparation of sales presentations, proposals, documents and artefacts.

- Strong influencing and negotiation skills with the ability to handle objections and be persuasive when proposing solutions and products.

- Self‑motivated and hands‑on approach, adept at navigating ambiguity to find solu

📌 Principal Data Engineer (Brisbane)
🏢 Mantel Group
📍 Brisbane