AI-first consulting firm specializing in data, cloud, and security transformations
Mantel is a 500+ person consultancy built around data engineering and cloud infrastructure, with a heavy concentration of senior and principal-level hires across engineering and data teams. Their tech stack reveals a deliberate multi-cloud strategy (GCP, AWS, Azure) paired with modern data platforms (Databricks, Snowflake, dbt), and their active projects—lakehouse architectures, AI model productionization, and legacy cloud migrations—signal a shift from advisory-only toward hands-on transformation delivery. Hiring velocity is accelerating, concentrated in engineering and data roles across Australia.
Notable leadership hires: Delivery Lead
Mantel is a consulting firm headquartered in Melbourne that works with enterprises on digital transformation, cloud migration, data architecture, and AI implementation. The company spans 501–1,000 employees and operates as a privately held business focused on AI-first solutions. Their service areas center on helping organizations modernize legacy workloads (on-premise databases, monolithic applications), build scalable data platforms (Databricks and Snowflake lakehouse patterns), secure hybrid and multi-cloud environments, and operationalize machine learning pipelines. The firm is ranked among Australia's top 10 Best Workplaces by Great Place to Work Australia for five consecutive years.
Core stack includes GCP, AWS, Azure, Databricks, Snowflake, dbt, Apache Spark, and Terraform. Data pipeline tools span Airflow, Dataflow, Delta Live Tables, and MLflow. They're actively adopting AWS and use Palo Alto Networks for security.
Active projects include Databricks lakehouse deployments, AI model productionization with real-time pipelines, GCP/hybrid infrastructure security, legacy database cloud migrations, contact centre platform design, and data platform modernization to accelerate client transformation timelines.
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