Data Engineer — AI-Driven Data Platform & Pipelines

LDK Healthcare; City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary package

Flexible working arrangements

Salary packaging with novated leasing

On-site cafes and restaurants

Professional development opportunities

Promotion opportunities

Love, Decency and Kindness culture

Purchased leave options

Rewards and retail discounts

Employee referral and retention bonus

Job summary

LDK Seniors Living is seeking a Data Engineer to design, build and maintain data platforms, pipelines and products supporting decision-making across the organization. You will work with Databricks, SQL, Python and Power BI to integrate data from multiple systems and create a single source of truth across clinical care, finance, workforce, hospitality and customer operations.

This role offers opportunities to contribute to growing data and AI capabilities, collaborating with stakeholders and

Qualifications

• Practical experience in data engineering or a related technical field, or tertiary qualifications in a STEM or technology discipline.
• Certifications such as Databricks Certified Data Engineer or Microsoft Azure Data Engineer Associate are highly regarded.
• Experience building, maintaining and troubleshooting data pipelines in cloud environments with strong data quality and governance practices.
• Advanced SQL skills and programming capability, ideally with Python and PySpark, and Databricks experience.
• Ability to translate business requirements into effective data solutions with strong stakeholder engagement and communication across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong analytical thinking and alignment with LDK's values of Love, Decency and Kindness.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test and maintain scalable data pipelines and integrations across LDK's Databricks lakehouse environment.
• Develop and manage data solutions using SQL, Python (PySpark) and CI/CD practices.
• Monitor platform performance, troubleshoot issues, and optimise data workloads for reliability and cost-effectiveness.
• Implement data quality, governance and privacy controls, including automated testing, reconciliations, access management and documentation.
• Create and maintain trusted data products, semantic models, dashboards and reports supporting business decision-making and AI initiatives.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the business to understand requirements and promote data and AI capability across LDK.

Skills

Data engineering

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder collaboration

Problem solving

Communication

Education

Tertiary qualifications in STEM or technology

Tools

Databricks

SQL

Python

PySpark

CI/CD

Job description

LDK Seniors Living is seeking a Data Engineer to design, build and maintain data platforms, pipelines and products supporting decision-making across the organization. You will work with Databricks, SQL, Python and Power BI to integrate data from multiple systems and create a single source of truth across clinical care, finance, workforce, hospitality and customer operations.

This role offers opportunities to contribute to growing data and AI capabilities, collaborating with stakeholders and