Lead Data Engineer

Mantel; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Personal Leave options

Support for professional development

Access to Mantel AI Gateway

Job summary

A leading IT consultancy in Australia seeks a Lead Data Engineer to design and deploy client environments, develop data pipelines, and build effective data solutions. The ideal candidate has strong consulting experience, familiarity with data management tools like Snowflake and Databricks, and a passion for leveraging AI technology. This role offers opportunities for career advancement in a flexible and supportive workplace.

Qualifications

• Strong consulting experience with external clients or internally within an organization.
• Experience building and managing data lakes, data warehouses, and data marts.
• Familiarity with CI/CD practices and tools like GitHub Actions.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy client environments through code.
• Drive and represent the Data Engineering capability.
• Build meaningful relationships with clients and decision makers.

Skills

Strong consulting experience

Experience in building and managing data lakes

Experience with CI/CD practices & tools

Experience defining data strategies for AI

Experience establishing technical architecture

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Job description

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About us

Mantel is an Australian-owned IT Professional Services consultancy, focused on emerging technology to help advance our clients by leveraging AI, Digital, Cloud, Data & Security technology. Since our inception in November 2017, we have experienced remarkable growth across Australia & New Zealand and are honoured to be recognised as a Great Place to Work for 6 years in a row! We hire smart and talented people and get out of their way. As a principle-based organisation, we have a flat structure with no hierarchy, trusting you to get the job done.

Data

Working in data at Mantel means there are opportunities to align to a particular cloud platform or remain cloud agnostic. Our teams are made up of awesome people who specialise in numerous areas of data, offering endless opportunities for data engineering, machine learning, data analytics and data science. You won’t just be keeping up with AI; you’ll be leading the curve, designing and scaling enterprise-level, fully automated Agentic AI solutions since 2017.

About the role

As a key member of our Data Engineering team, you’ll be responsible for designing and deploying client environments through code, developing data pipelines, building data models and advanced queries to help our clients harness the power of data.

• Take responsibility for the deliverables and efforts of project teams (varying in size, complexity and makeup of the team), and at times sharing responsibility collaboratively with other Leads / Principals.
• Establish an architecture for technical delivery, defining how this will be executed within the project and ensuring this vision is clear and shared across the team and other relevant stakeholders.
• Drive and represent the Data Engineering capability both internally and externally, collaborating across Mantel domains to ensure our AI and data solutions are tailored to client needs.
• Participate in pre‑sales activities e.g. creating proposals/SoWs and facilitating walk‑throughs with clients.
• Build meaningful and trusted relationships with clients, key decision makers and partners (e.g. SMEs within partners such as AWS, Google, Databricks, Snowflake).
• Use professional judgement while treating colleagues and clients with respect and compassion, and demonstrate our five Mantel principles.

What you’ll need to be successful

• Strong consulting experience, either with external clients or internally within an organisation.
• Experience in building and managing data lakes, data warehouses, and data marts with tools such as Snowflake, Databricks.
• Experience with CI/CD practices & tools - GitHub Actions, Gitlab, BuildKite, etc.
• Experience defining data strategies for AI, including setting the standards for feature governance, data quality, and data lineage required for robust ML systems.
• Experience establishing technical architecture and leading the delivery of technical projects and project teams.

What you can expect from us

• We know you won’t have one job for life. At Mantel we believe in supporting our team to take their career in a direction that aligns with their passions, with internal opportunities across Cloud, Data, Digital, Delivery & Security.
• A true investment in your AI‑first career. We are a fully AI‑enabled consultancy and provide you with the tools to lead—including access to the Mantel AI Gateway, our secure, centralised platform with multiple AI models, plus a dedicated monthly budget and a safe environment to experiment and innovate.
• Our elite partnerships are a direct result of our deep platform mastery. For you, this means you’ll be working alongside teams with the highest levels of technical expertise and tackling the most complex, high‑profile projects on the market. Check out our partner awards and recognitions here.
• We believe in unique experiences for all. Our My Deal program allows you to tailor your yearly plan, with the support of your Leader, to decide on what’s most important to you—whether that’s extra professional development, extra annual leave, time to work on your side hustle, or something else completely different! One size does not fit all.
• You’ll be genuinely supported by an organisation that cares about not only you but your family as well, Mantel offers Flexible Personal Leave options for those unplanned moments in life.
• We support a flexible hybrid approach to working which is guided by our principles; we trust each other to “make good choices” about the best workplace locations for the requirements of the project, role and client. This can change based on our client needs.
• You’ll get all the tools you need to hit the ground running, including a new phone, laptop & swag.
• Mantel is a certified Family Inclusive Workplace, which means we are committed to improving your wellbeing at work through leading practices on flexible work, parental leave, family care and family wellbeing.

Click ‘Apply for this job’ to be considered for this role and our Talent team will be in touch.

We value a diverse workplace and strongly encourage people from all backgrounds and minority groups to apply.

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Information Technology and Analyst

Industries

IT Services and IT Consulting and Technology, Information and Media