At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead innovative data platform projects and mentor engineers in AI-assisted practices.
- Company: Join Synapx, a cutting-edge Microsoft Solutions Partner in data and AI consultancy.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible working, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Dynamic role with a focus on community growth and leadership.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by shaping modern data solutions and driving AI transformation.
- Qualifications: Proven expertise in Microsoft Azure and experience in technology consulting.
The predicted salary is between 72000 - 88000 £ per year.
Time split: 50% client delivery, 50% practice leadership and pre-sales.
About Synapx: Synapx is a Microsoft Solutions Partner and specialist data and AI consultancy, with offices in London and India. We help enterprise clients design, build and run modern data platforms on Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Fabric, and turn them into practical AI and agentic solutions. We work closely with Microsoft on funded programmes and Azure specialisations.
The role: The Principal Consultant bridges strategic client delivery and internal practice growth at Synapx. You will spend 50% of your time leading technical delivery and data platform architectures, increasingly incorporating agentic and AI-assisted engineering practices. The remaining 50% is spent scaling our technical communities, driving pre-sales and mentoring engineers. This is a senior, hands-on role for someone who can earn credibility with C-level stakeholders and engineers alike.
Key responsibilities:
- Client delivery and strategy (50%)
- Lead architectures: Design robust, secure and scalable data platforms on Microsoft Azure for enterprise clients, spanning ingestion, lakehouse, governance and analytics layers, and incorporating agentic workflows and AI-augmented development where they add measurable value.
- Strategic advisory: Guide C-level stakeholders through data platform strategy, modernisation, cost optimisation and AI transformation, including how agents and automation reshape engineering delivery and operations.
- Agentic delivery: Champion the use of AI coding assistants and agentic tools (such as Claude, GitHub Copilot and Microsoft Copilot Studio) within delivery teams to accelerate build, review and testing cycles without compromising quality or security.
- Technical escalation: Act as the ultimate resolution point for complex delivery and engineering blocks.
- Practice leadership and pre-sales (50%)
- Community growth: Shape and scale a technology practice (such as Data Platforms (including Fabric), Data and AI, or Agentic Engineering), including internal enablement on agentic development practices and tooling.
- Pre-sales: Partner with sales teams to author technical proposals and pitch to prospects, articulating the value of modern data platforms, agent-driven automation and AI-assisted delivery models.
- People mentorship: Coach senior and lead engineers to build high-performing technical squads, including upskilling in AI-assisted and agentic engineering workflows.
What you will bring:
- Cloud expertise: Proven mastery of Microsoft Azure ecosystems, with professional-level certifications.
- Data platform expertise: Deep hands-on experience designing and delivering enterprise data platforms using Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks or equivalent, including lakehouse and medallion architectures, data governance and cataloguing (such as Microsoft Purview and Unity Catalog), data modelling and infrastructure as code.
- Architecture frameworks: Deep experience applying Well-Architected Frameworks to enterprise cloud and data estates.
- Agentic and AI tooling: Hands-on experience with agentic development tools and AI coding assistants (such as Codex, Claude Code and GitHub Copilot), and a working understanding of agent orchestration and automation patterns within the Microsoft ecosystem (Copilot Studio, Power Platform, Microsoft Fabric, Azure AI Foundry) and broader agentic frameworks.
- Consulting background: At least 5 years in a customer-facing technology consulting or professional services role.
- Leadership depth: A strong track record of leading engineering teams without losing hands-on technical credibility, ideally including embedding AI-assisted or agentic practices into a team's day-to-day engineering workflow.
Synapx is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all backgrounds.
Principal Consultant in London employer: Synapx
Synapx offers a dynamic work environment where employees can engage in both client delivery and practice leadership. The company emphasizes professional growth through mentorship and collaboration with C-level stakeholders, providing opportunities to work on cutting-edge data platforms and AI solutions. With a strong partnership with Microsoft, Synapx supports its employees in developing their technical skills and advancing their careers.
