Data & Analytics Engineering Manager: Platform Growth & Delivery

Preacta; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Preacta, a fast-growing SaaS company, is modernising its data platform by migrating data warehousing to Databricks and transitioning away from legacy BI tooling. This role owns the program to push the architecture through production maturity while guiding delivery.

You will lead the distributed data engineering and analytics team, shaping hiring, setting priorities, and balancing performance, cost, and business outcomes.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading data/analytics teams
• Proven track record delivering data platform migrations
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and data integrity
• Experience with Databricks and cloud data warehousing
• Ability to balance performance, cost and business outcomes

Responsibilities

• Own delivery program and team growth for the data platform
• Set priorities, timelines and deliverables; run Scrum with product and design
• Mentor engineers and provide clear feedback
• Collaborate with analytics to safeguard downstream reporting

Skills

Engineering leadership

Team management

Data architecture

Databricks

Scrum/Agile

Multi-cloud data warehousing

Tools

Databricks

Cloud platforms

Job description

Preacta, a fast-growing SaaS company, is modernising its data platform by migrating data warehousing to Databricks and transitioning away from legacy BI tooling. This role owns the program to push the architecture through production maturity while guiding delivery.

You will lead the distributed data engineering and analytics team, shaping hiring, setting priorities, and balancing performance, cost, and business outcomes.