Senior CAD Data Engineer — PLM & Data Pipelines

Akkodis; Western Australia; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Akkodis is seeking a senior data engineer in Australia’s Western Australia region to drive data transformation and pipeline automation across CAD, PLM, and manufacturing domains. The role emphasizes delivering production-ready data, provenance, and robust data quality controls while collaborating with Engineering, Manufacturing, and Digital teams.

You will work within a complex engineering environment undergoing digital and data transformation, mapping and enriching engineering data, and

Qualifications

• Must have senior, hands-on experience in data engineering/analytics.
• Mandatory AGSVA Baseline Security Clearance or higher to be considered.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain and improve data pipelines between CAD, PLM and other engineering systems.
• Extract and transform complex, highly normalised engineering data.
• Reassemble component level data into production-ready items and hierarchical structures.
• Map engineering information into correct BOMs, parent-child relationships, and installation locations.
• Develop transformation logic using Python and Power Query.
• Cleanse, validate, map and enrich engineering datasets.
• Design and embed automated data quality checks throughout the pipeline.
• Assign and manage unique identifiers to maintain traceability between source and production data.
• Develop logic to identify, track and manage changes as designs are revised.
• Work with master and reference data to improve consistency and quality.
• Investigate poorly documented data and establish structures in less mature domains.
• Support migration of CAD and engineering data into PLM and other platforms.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Digital stakeholders.
• Resolve complex data quality, transformation and integration issues.
• Understand engineering information in context across design, manufacturing and product lifecycle processes.

Skills

Python

Power Query

Data pipeline/ETL

Data cleansing/quality

Data mapping/enrichment

Data modelling/hierarchical data

Change detection/delta mgmt

Master/reference data mgmt

Data discovery in complex env

Advanced Excel

Job description

Akkodis is seeking a senior data engineer in Australia’s Western Australia region to drive data transformation and pipeline automation across CAD, PLM, and manufacturing domains. The role emphasizes delivering production-ready data, provenance, and robust data quality controls while collaborating with Engineering, Manufacturing, and Digital teams.

You will work within a complex engineering environment undergoing digital and data transformation, mapping and enriching engineering data, and