Analytics Platform Engineer (Fabric & Databricks)

Transport for NSW; Sydney; On-site; AUD 138,000 - 154,000; Full time

Job summary

Transport for NSW is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to join our analytics team in Macquarie Park. You will lead the adoption of Microsoft Fabric and Azure Databricks, shaping scalable, governed data and analytics solutions aligned with enterprise standards.

You will collaborate with architects and stakeholders across the organisation to design, onboard, secure and operate the next-generation analytics platform, enabling business outcomes and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Experience with Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks and Azure data platform technologies.
• Strong understanding of data engineering, analytics and reporting solutions.
• Experience with Lakehouse architectures and data integration in modern analytics platforms.
• Experience implementing governance, security and operational controls across cloud data platforms.
• Knowledge of Unity Catalog, workspace governance and access management practices.
• Experience supporting enterprise-scale analytics environments with diverse stakeholders.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Experience creating standards, frameworks and reusable patterns.
• Experience in providing technical support and platform enablement.

Responsibilities

• Act as a technical SME for Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks and analytics platforms.
• Assist onboarding activities and help teams design solutions aligned with governance.
• Develop and maintain reference architectures, best practices and design patterns.
• Provide technical assistance on data engineering, analytics, reporting and AI/ML capabilities.
• Support platform services with reliability, security and operational excellence.
• Collaborate with architects, engineers and stakeholders to translate requirements.
• Drive platform governance, access management and compliance controls.
• Assist optimisation initiatives for Fabric and Databricks environments.
• Support incident, problem and service management processes.
• Evaluate emerging analytics/AI cloud technologies and provide recommendations.
• Mentor engineers and platform users on best practices and modern engineering.

Skills

Microsoft Fabric

Azure Databricks

Azure data platform

Data engineering

Analytics solutions

Lakehouse architectures

Medallion patterns

Governance & security

Workspace governance

Stakeholder engagement

Standards & patterns

Technical support

Platform enablement

Job description

Transport for NSW is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to join our analytics team in Macquarie Park. You will lead the adoption of Microsoft Fabric and Azure Databricks, shaping scalable, governed data and analytics solutions aligned with enterprise standards.

You will collaborate with architects and stakeholders across the organisation to design, onboard, secure and operate the next-generation analytics platform, enabling business outcomes and continuous improvement.