Lead Engineer

Colonial First State; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Additional day for your birthday

Sonder access for health support

Life Leave - 3 days per annum

Corporate health insurance rates withB

Sonder coaching and wellbeing services

Job summary

Colonial First State in Sydney is seeking a Lead Engineer to design, implement and maintain our data platform infrastructure, enabling scalable, high-performance data processing across the organisation. You will drive technical strategy for data engineering, ensure security and reliability, contribute production-grade code, and mentor teams through reviews and guidance.

This senior role requires strong cloud experience with Databricks, Fabric, Terraform and Azure, plus CI/CD pipelines and data

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a data engineer with scalable, secure data platforms.
• Strong knowledge of cloud-based data engineering and modern data architectures.
• Hands-on expertise with Databricks, Fabric, Terraform, and Azure IaC.
• Data capabilities: ETL development, data warehouse modelling, data governance and management.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain CFS's data platform infrastructure.
• Provide technical strategy to enhance data engineering capabilities.
• Produce production-quality code artefacts and ensure quality.
• Ensure high availability, performance and security of data environments.
• Provide technical guidance via code reviews and training.
• Collaborate with project teams to review code changes and align with standards.
• Deliver documentation, unit tests, and acceptance targets.
• Maintain security of data in the data lakehouse and access controls.
• Understand data requirements and ensure the warehouse meets needs.

Skills

Data engineering

SQL

Python

Java

SCALA

Databricks

Terraform

Azure

CI/CD pipelines

GitHub

Tools

Databricks

Fabric

Terraform

Azure

GitHub

Job description

Are you ready to be part of an organisation that values expertise, passion and diversity? At CFS we know that the foundation of our success lies in our exceptional people. We believe in celebrating individuality, have a passion for high performance and creating an environment where you can unleash your full potential. Our people enable us to make a difference and deliver exceptional experiences to help our customers achieve financial freedom.

Your Team

The AI & Data division is charged with transforming CFS through end-to-end delivery of data programs and projects. AI & Data closely works across the whole of CFS to bring together the capabilities needed to deliver change that matters to our customers and to our people. This role is part of the Group Data & Analytics domain, a high-impact team with accountability spanning across the Enterprise Data Platform.

Your Responsibilities

• As a Lead Engineer, you will be empowered to design, implement, and maintain CFS's data platform infrastructure; to support reliable, scalable, and efficient data processing across various business units.
• Your role will provide technical strategy and solutions to enhance our data engineering capabilities, ensuring high availability, performance, and security of our data environments.
• Resolve any challenges using domain knowledge and contribute to engineering outputs to a production level quality, through the production of code artefacts.
• This role combines operational responsibilities with a focus on enhancements, supporting the platform by enabling robust data engineering solutions to drive insight and decision-making capabilities across the organisation.
• Provide technical advice via code reviews, technical guidance and training.
• Collaborate with Project teams to review and guide code changes, ensuring alignment with best practices and architectural standards.
• Produce engineering outcomes that meet the teams Ways of Working including all documentation, unit testing coverage, code within quality scores, completing acceptance target.
• Alignment to technology frameworks and processes agreed by the team that are used within the engagement.
• Ensuring the security of the data in the data lakehouse. This would involve setting up and maintaining proper access controls, encryption, and other security measures.
• Collaborating with stakeholders across the organisation to understand their data requirements and ensure that the data warehouse meets their needs.

Your Capability and Experience

• Proven experience as a data engineer with strong experience in designing, building and managing scalable, secure and high-performance data platform
• Strong understanding of cloud-based data engineering principles and modern data platform architectures.
• Extensive hands-on expertise with Databricks, Fabric, Terraform, and Azure cloud infrastructure, including Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and disaster recovery management.
• Data Capabilities: ETL Development, Warehouse development, Data Modelling, Warehouse Modelling, Data Management
• Data Concepts: Hadoop, Data lakes, Warehouse Modelling (e.g. Relational, Data Vault etc) ODS, Real-time analytics, Data Governance and Management Frameworks
• Programming Languages: SQL, Python, Java, SCALA
• Proven ability to develop and manage CI/CD pipelines (GitHub) for infrastructure and application deployments.
• Skilled in Python and SQL for data engineering, including reusable libraries and scalable ingestion patterns
• Familiarity with data orchestration and large-scale ingestion patterns
• Knowledge of data security, governance, and compliance in cloud environments
• Knowledge of medallion architecture in Databricks is desirable

What to Expect

At CFS, you'll be working among the very best in the wealth management industry. It's an inspiring environment that encourages development and celebrates success. Other things to look forward to:

• Additional day for your birthday
• Access to CFS Employer Super
• Life Leave - 3 days per annum
• Access to Sonder who provides human-powered medical, mental health and safety support through one easy-to-use app enabling you to get support whenever and wherever you need.
• Access to Corporate rates with BUPA Health Insurance
• Confidential coaching and counselling services supporting life, mind, body, relationships, work and family to assist you in taking charge of your own health and wellbeing

CFS Culture

At CFS we are committed to creating a thriving environment where individuals can flourish. We believe that success is built upon strong teams, and we are dedicated to celebrating uniqueness, championing individuality and supporting a diverse and inclusive workforce. We believe that when you can truly be yourself, you can unlock your full potential.

Please note, CFS requires all candidates to have full work rights in Australia.

Where we have preferred candidates, background checks (including Police, Employment, Bankruptcy checks, ASIC banned and disqualified persons) will be completed prior to the final preferred candidate's employment being confirmed. The outcomes of the background checks do not preclude the preferred candidate, however, they will be assessed against the inherent requirements of the role.

This role is based on Gadigal Land (Sydney).