Lead Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Birthday day off

Employer superannuation

Life Leave 3 days

Sonder wellbeing support

Corporate health insurance discounts

Confidential coaching

Job summary

CFS is seeking a Lead Engineer to design and maintain our data platform infrastructure, enabling reliable, scalable data processing across the organisation. You will drive technical strategy for data engineering, ensure security and high availability, and deliver production-ready code.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to uphold architectural standards and governance while advancing the data capabilities across the enterprise.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a data engineer with scalable, secure data platforms.
• Strong understanding of cloud-based data engineering and modern data platform architectures.
• Hands-on experience with Databricks, Fabric, Terraform, and Azure cloud infrastructure (IaC).
• Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines (GitHub) for data and analytics deployments.
• Knowledge of data security, governance, and compliance in cloud environments.
• Familiarity with medallion architecture in Databricks is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain the data platform infrastructure for reliable, scalable data processing.
• Provide technical strategy and solutions to enhance data engineering capabilities with high availability and security.
• Produce production-grade code artefacts and reviews to ensure quality standards.
• Collaborate with project teams and stakeholders to align with architectural standards and documentation.

Skills

Databricks

Azure

CI/CD

Python

SQL

Java

SCALA

Data governance

Security

Data modelling

Tools

GitHub

Terraform

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

• 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.

This role is based on Gadigal Land (Sydney).

About the Company
Davidson is partnering with a leading financial services organisation undergoing a significant technology transformation across its wealth and advice environment.
As the organisation continues to build greater internal engineering capability, they are looking for an experienced Lead Engineer to help establish strong engineering standards, governance and consistent delivery practices across the technology function.
About the Role
As Lead Engineer, you will provide technical leadership across a growing engineering team.
You will work across a fast‑moving transformation environment where teams are currently delivering at pace, helping introduce greater consistency, technical discipline and engineering maturity.
Key responsibilities will include:

• Providing technical leadership and engineering thought leadership across the team
• Establishing and embedding engineering standards, principles and governance
• Supporting engineers to deliver consistently against the target architecture
• Reviewing technical approaches and helping improve engineering quality
• Identifying technical risks and issues early and driving them through to resolution
• Working closely with architects, engineers, delivery teams and business stakeholders
• Supporting the broader uplift of internal engineering capability

About You
You will be an experienced Lead Engineer, Principal Engineer or senior technical leader who is comfortable operating across both technology and stakeholder environments.
You will ideally bring:

• Strong experience providing technical leadership within complex enterprise environments
• Demonstrated experience establishing engineering standards, governance and development practices
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience across modern enterprise technology environments
• Experience influencing and uplifting engineering teams without relying on formal people management
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• A proactive approach with the ability to take ownership and drive outcomes
• Experience within banking, wealth management, superannuation, advice or broader financial services is a must!
• Microsoft Dynamics 365 or Power Platform exposure would be advantageous.

The Benefits

• Influence engineering standards and practices across a growing technology function
• Work closely with senior architecture and technology leadership
• Significant scope to shape how engineering capability develops internally
• Initial 12‑month contract with the potential for longer‑term opportunities
• Sydney-based role with strong visibility across the broader transformation