Cloud Data Engineer (Databricks) - Flexible Work & Perks

iSelect; Brisbane; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vibrant community & events

Flexible work arrangements including 1

ME leave & Volunteer Day leave

Free coffee on Mondays

Additional leave options

Return To Work bonus

Quarterly awards & recognition

Job summary

iSelect and Compare the Market are trusted Australian brands helping people compare personal finance and household products. This Data Engineer role focuses on designing scalable cloud data solutions using Databricks and related platforms to support analytics, AI/ML initiatives, and business insights.

You will collaborate with analysts, data scientists and engineers to transform raw data into trusted information while ensuring governance, reliability and secure data platforms.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Analytics, IT or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years in Data Engineering, or 5+ years across engineering, data or BI.
• 3+ years with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or GCP and Lakehouse technologies including Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift or Synapse.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver scalable data solutions aligned with enterprise architecture and governance standards.
• Build and optimise end-to-end data pipelines, integrations and workflows.
• Implement, test and deploy solutions using IaC, engineering best practices and release processes.
• Ensure data quality and reliability through monitoring, logging, issue remediation and proactive risk management.
• Partner with Solution Architects, Data Engineers, BI Developers and business stakeholders to optimise platforms and support analytics.
• Work effectively in an Agile environment, bringing strong communication, business knowledge and an end-to-end understanding of the Data & Insights lifecycle.
• Apply data engineering best practices and advance DataOps and automation to continually improve platform performance and scalability.

Skills

Data pipelines

Cloud platforms

Spark Python SQL

Data governance

CI/CD IaC

Education

Degree in Computer Science / Analytics / IT

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

BigQuery

Redshift

Synapse

Airflow

DBT

DLT

Dagster

Kestra

S3

ADLS

HDFS

Job description

iSelect and Compare the Market are trusted Australian brands helping people compare personal finance and household products. This Data Engineer role focuses on designing scalable cloud data solutions using Databricks and related platforms to support analytics, AI/ML initiatives, and business insights.

You will collaborate with analysts, data scientists and engineers to transform raw data into trusted information while ensuring governance, reliability and secure data platforms.