Data and Analytics Lead

Change Recruitment; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 162,000 - 198,000; Full time

Job summary

Change Recruitment is partnering with a large organisation undergoing a major transformation of its enterprise data and analytics landscape. We seek a Technical Lead – Data & Analytics Platform to take end-to-end ownership of the data platform and drive migration, modernisation and cross-functional transformation initiatives.

You will provide hands-on technical leadership, mentor engineers, and shape CI/CD, governance and security across data workloads in a hybrid Melbourne setting.

Qualifications

• Proven end-to-end ownership of enterprise Data & Analytics platforms.
• Experience leading large-scale data migration and transformation programs.
• Deep experience with Microsoft Azure data technologies (Data Lake, Data Factory, Azure SQL/Synapse, Databricks).
• Strong SQL and data engineering capability.
• Advanced Power BI including semantic modelling, DAX and performance optimisation.

Responsibilities

• Take end-to-end technical ownership of an enterprise Data & Analytics platform.
• Lead complex data migration and transformation initiatives (legacy-to-cloud, Salesforce-related).
• Design and evolve scalable data pipelines, lakehouse architectures and data models.
• Reverse engineer and modernise legacy ETL processes and reporting logic.
• Drive data discovery, profiling, quality and validation activities.
• Enable trusted self-service analytics through curated datasets.
• Implement and improve CI/CD, DevOps and automation across data workloads.
• Ensure data governance, security and documentation standards.
• Provide technical oversight of internal teams, contractors and vendor solutions.
• Mentor Data Engineers and Analysts to improve engineering standards.

Skills

End-to-end ownership

Data migration

Data transformation

Azure data stack

Data Lake

Data Factory

Azure Synapse

Databricks

SQL

Power BI semantic

DAX

CI/CD

DevOps

Data governance

Security

Stakeholder mgmt

Mentoring engineers

Data modelling

Tools

Databricks

Power BI

Job description

Technical Lead – Data & Analytics Platform

Hybrid | Melbourne’s Eastern Suburbs

Salary $180,000 including super

(Lots of work / life flexibility)

We’re partnering with a large organisation undergoing a significant transformation across its enterprise data and analytics landscape. They’re looking for an experienced Technical Lead – Data & Analytics Platform to take end-to-end ownership of a critical data platform and lead several high-profile transformation initiatives.

This is not simply a senior hands-on Data Engineer role. We’re looking for someone who understands the full data lifecycle, from source systems and integration through to engineering, modelling, analytics, reporting, governance and platform operations.

The Role

Working closely with Data & Analytics leadership, you’ll provide hands-on technical leadership across complex data migration, modernisation and customer transformation initiatives.

You’ll lead engineers and delivery partners while maintaining oversight of the broader platform, ensuring technical decisions are scalable, maintainable and aligned with business outcomes.

Key responsibilities include:

• Take end-to-end technical ownership of an enterprise Data & Analytics platform.
• Lead complex data migration and transformation initiatives, including legacy-to-cloud and Salesforce-related programs.
• Design and evolve scalable data pipelines, lakehouse architectures, enterprise data models and reusable data products.
• Reverse engineer and modernise legacy ETL processes, stored procedures and reporting logic.
• Drive data discovery, profiling, reconciliation, quality and validation activities.
• Enable trusted self-service analytics through curated datasets and Power BI semantic models.
• Implement and improve CI/CD, DevOps and automation across data workloads.
• Ensure strong data governance, security, quality and documentation standards.
• Provide technical oversight of internal teams, contractors and vendor-delivered solutions.
• Mentor Data Engineers and Analysts while improving engineering standards and delivery maturity.

What We’re Looking For

You’ll ideally have operated as a Technical Lead, Lead Data Engineer, Data Platform Lead or similar within a complex enterprise environment.

Most importantly, you’ll have experience owning enterprise data outcomes beyond individual engineering tasks, with an understanding of architecture, platform strategy, operational support and cross-functional dependencies.

You’ll bring:

• Proven end-to-end ownership of enterprise Data & Analytics platforms.
• Experience leading large-scale data migration and transformation programs.
• Deep experience across Microsoft Azure data technologies, ideally including Data Lake, Data Factory, Azure SQL/Synapse and Databricks.
• Strong Databricks, SQL and data engineering capability.
• Advanced Power BI, including semantic modelling, DAX and performance optimisation.
• Strong understanding of lakehouse architecture, ETL/ELT, integration and data modelling.
• Experience reverse engineering complex or poorly documented legacy environments.
• Experience implementing DevOps, CI/CD and automation for data workloads.
• Strong stakeholder management and the ability to influence technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience leading and mentoring engineers in complex delivery environments.

Experience with Salesforce-related data migrations would be highly regarded.

The Opportunity

This role will suit a senior technical leader who can remain close enough to the technology to challenge designs and solve complex problems, while also stepping back to understand the entire enterprise data platform and the downstream impact of technical decisions.

2-year maximum-term contract | Hybrid working | Melbourne eastern suburbs