Lead Data Platform Engineer: Databricks, Snowflake & AWS

Cox Purtell; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Cox Purtell in Sydney is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to design and deliver data platforms using Databricks, Snowflake and AWS for government, financial services and enterprise clients. This permanent role offers visibility into platform direction and the chance to influence large programs.

You’ll own end-to-end platform components, work with client technology leaders, apply AI tooling, and guide architecture decisions while staying hands-on.

Qualifications

• Deep experience with Databricks and/or Snowflake in large-scale data environments.
• Hands-on AWS data platform experience (Glue and Redshift, plus S3/Lambda/Step Functions/IAM).
• Strong SQL and data modelling skills.
• Terraform and CI/CD experience for data platforms.
• Experience guiding technical direction on large programs and influencing stakeholders.
• Comfort presenting tradeoffs to clients and keeping delivery on track.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver data platforms for government, financial services and enterprise clients.
• Own platform components end to end and set the technical direction.
• Lead delivery across a domain and mentor engineers as needed.
• Collaborate with client technology leaders and manage governance and cost tradeoffs.
• Apply AI tooling within platform design and delivery to reduce boilerplate.

Skills

SQL

Data modelling

Cloud architecture

Client communication

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

AWS

Terraform

dbt

S3

Lambda

Step Functions

IAM

Glue

Redshift

Job description

Cox Purtell in Sydney is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to design and deliver data platforms using Databricks, Snowflake and AWS for government, financial services and enterprise clients. This permanent role offers visibility into platform direction and the chance to influence large programs.

You’ll own end-to-end platform components, work with client technology leaders, apply AI tooling, and guide architecture decisions while staying hands-on.