Data Engineer - Cloud Pipelines & Quality (GCP)

XPT Software Australia Pty Ltd; Sydney; On-site; AUD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

XPT Software Australia Pty Ltd in Sydney is seeking a data engineer to design, build, and optimise batch and streaming data pipelines. You will ensure resilience, performance, and cost efficiency while implementing monitoring, data quality checks, and governance practices.

Collaborate with Technical Leads, Data Architects, and business stakeholders to deliver fit-for-purpose data solutions and contribute to CI/CD automation and scalable data storage strategies.

Qualifications

• Proficient in SQL for data wrangling, transformation, and analysis.
• Experience building ETL/ELT pipelines in cloud or distributed environments.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms and services.
• Knowledge of datamodeling concepts.
• Experience with data orchestration tools.
• Familiar with version control and CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of data quality, validation, and observability practices.
• Works independently with minimal supervision on well-scoped tasks.
• Collaborates effectively with stakeholders.
• Communicates clearly and documents work for others to maintain or build upon.
• Open to code reviews, feedback, and continuous learning.
• Able to troubleshoot and resolve data pipeline failures or performance issues.
• 2–4 years in a dataengineering or closely related role.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimise batch and streaming data pipelines using approved frameworks and tooling.
• Ensure pipelines are resilient, performant, and cost optimised.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and automated recovery processes.
• Apply data quality checks and reconciliation processes to ensure accuracy and completeness.
• Maintain metadata, lineage, and documentation to support governance requirements.
• Adhere to RBAC, data privacy, and security standards.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of ingestion frameworks, transformation layers, and data models.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and deployment.
• Optimise data storage and retrieval strategies to meet performance needs.
• Work closely with Technical Leads, Data Architects, Analysts, and business stakeholders to deliver fit-for-purpose solutions.
• Participate in code reviews and knowledge-sharing sessions to improve team capability.
• Explore and adopt new tools, frameworks, and techniques to enhance engineering capability.
• Identify opportunities to automate and streamline workflows.

Skills

SQL

ETL/ELT pipelines

Cloud platforms

Data modeling

Data orchestration

Version control

CI/CD pipelines

Data quality

Observability

Independent work

Stakeholder collaboration

Troubleshooting

2-4 years exp

Data wrangling

Tools

Git

Job description

XPT Software Australia Pty Ltd in Sydney is seeking a data engineer to design, build, and optimise batch and streaming data pipelines. You will ensure resilience, performance, and cost efficiency while implementing monitoring, data quality checks, and governance practices.

Collaborate with Technical Leads, Data Architects, and business stakeholders to deliver fit-for-purpose data solutions and contribute to CI/CD automation and scalable data storage strategies.