Database Engineering Lead - Scale Enterprise Data (Sydney)

Equifax, Inc.; Sydney; On-site; AUD 200,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Equifax, Inc. is seeking a Database Engineering Lead in Sydney to balance technical leadership with hands-on execution. You will direct a small team to optimize and scale enterprise data platforms, ensure high availability and low latency, and automate repeatable processes.

You will review and manage complex database environments, drive transformation, and enforce change, incident, and problem management while collaborating across leadership teams to meet strategic enterprise goals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in CS or related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 10–15 years in database admin, system admin, performance tuning, and 24/7 support for traditional databases.
• Experience leading technical teams of engineers.
• 4+ years of experience with Google Cloud Platform analytics services (e.g., BigQuery, Cloud Spanner, Dataflow, Cloud Storage, Cloud Data Fusion, Cloud Functions, or Cloud Composer).
• Proven experience implementing Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Python, or Chef) and using GitHub for source control.
• Experience designing and building production data pipelines in hybrid big data architectures.
• Hands-on proficiency with CI/CD tooling and practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and operationalise large-scale enterprise data solutions focused on high availability, low latency, and scalability.
• Ensure all database environments are provisioned using automated and repeatable procedures.
• Guide team members to build IaC patterns that adhere to engineering and security standards.
• Establish system-wide monitoring, alerting, and dashboards using DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, Log Analytics, and DPA to meet SLOs.
• Drive technology transformation across data products while enforcing change, incident, and problem management processes.
• Implement Lean practices across database operations to streamline workflows and eliminate waste.
• Collaborate across organisational boundaries with leadership teams to support strategic enterprise tech goals.

Skills

Team leadership

CI/CD tooling

Data pipelines

GCP analytics

Terraform

Python

Hybrid big data

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or related field

Tools

DataDog

Prometheus

Grafana

BigQuery

Cloud Spanner

GKE

Job description

Equifax, Inc. is seeking a Database Engineering Lead in Sydney to balance technical leadership with hands-on execution. You will direct a small team to optimize and scale enterprise data platforms, ensure high availability and low latency, and automate repeatable processes.

You will review and manage complex database environments, drive transformation, and enforce change, incident, and problem management while collaborating across leadership teams to meet strategic enterprise goals.