Engineering Manager - Data & Analytics

Preacta; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Preacta is modernizing its data platform, migrating core data warehousing to Databricks, and moving reporting away from legacy BI tools. You will lead a distributed analytics team, drive delivery, and shape architecture while balancing cost and performance.

The role requires hands-on data engineering leadership and strong stakeholder management across time zones. You will partner with the Lead Data Engineer to guide technical direction, oversee sprint planning, and grow the team with clear

Qualifications

• Senior IC who progressed to management with data/analytics focus
• 2+ years leading engineering teams with improved speed/quality
• Strong foundation in distributed systems and data integrity at scale
• Hands-on data warehouse migrations across multi-cloud environments

Responsibilities

• Own delivery of the data platform modernization program
• Build and scale a distributed analytics team
• Balance performance, infrastructure cost and business outcomes
• Lead sprint planning and coordinate with product, design and analytics
• Mentor engineers with clear expectations and feedback
• Collaborate across locations/time zones to align priorities

Skills

Data engineering leadership

Agile / Scrum delivery

Data platforms & architecture

Stakeholder management

Cross-location collaboration

Team building & coaching

Tools

Databricks

Job description

A fast-growing, product-led SaaS business with customers across dozens of countries, built on a collaborative cloud platform and supported by a distributed, global team. It's a business that's scaled fast and now needs strong engineering leadership to match, with genuine investment in its people and a track record of promoting from within.

Role and responsibilities

The business is mid-way through a significant modernisation of its data platform, moving core data warehousing onto Databricks and shifting reporting away from its legacy BI tool. The architecture is largely in place and the team has done solid work stabilising it, but there's a real program of work ahead to take it through to full production maturity. That's what this role owns.

This isn't a purely people-management seat. You'll need enough depth in modern data platforms and architecture to challenge technical direction and work closely with the Lead Data Engineer, but your core value will be driving delivery, building the team, and managing the trade-offs between performance, infrastructure cost and business outcomes.

Day to day, you'll create clear structure around priorities, timelines and deliverables, run a healthy Scrum cadence with product and design, and work to improve data refresh times with real-time as a longer-term goal. You'll also improve collaboration between product engineering and analytics so product changes don't break downstream reporting, and you'll coach and grow your engineers with clear expectations and regular feedback.

You'll inherit an established, distributed data engineering and analytics team, with real scope to shape how it grows from here, including making the call on where further hiring is genuinely needed.

Key technical skills

• Came up as a senior individual contributor, likely in data or analytics engineering, before stepping into management
• Two-plus years leading engineering teams, with a track record of improving speed and quality through better process and technical decisions
• Solid grounding in distributed systems and data integrity at scale, enough to hold your own on architecture and platform calls
• Hands-on experience running large, multi-cloud data warehouse migrations while keeping an eye on infrastructure cost
• Confident running sprint planning and delivery alongside product and tech leads, juggling new features against bugs, enhancements and maintenance
• A strong track record on stakeholder management and delivery, bonus points if you've steered a troubled program back on course
• Comfortable communicating clearly across different locations and time zones