Senior Data engineer

Talenza; Brisbane; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Permanent role

Brisbane CBD office

Salary sacrificing options

Job summary

WorkCover Queensland is expanding its data platform with a greenfield Snowflake implementation. We are partnering with Talenza to hire a Senior Data Engineer who will design pipelines, data models and curated data products powering reporting and analytics.

You will build scalable data pipelines, develop semantic models, and embed data quality, security and metadata throughout the solution. The role includes production support, performance tuning and mentoring peers.

Qualifications

• 5+ years delivering enterprise-scale data and analytics solutions.
• Strong Python and SQL skills, including Airflow DAG development.
• Snowflake preferred; strong Databricks experience considered.
• Experience with GitHub, GitHub Actions, CI/CD and automated testing.
• Coding mindset, with practical AI use to accelerate delivery.

Responsibilities

• Build and optimise scalable data pipelines, transformations and reusable data products.
• Develop data models and semantic layers for reporting and analytics.
• Apply automated testing, CI/CD, monitoring and deployment automation.
• Embed data quality, security, privacy, lineage and metadata into solutions.
• Support production platforms, resolve performance issues and mentor other engineers.

Skills

Python

SQL

Airflow

AI acceleration

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

GitHub

GitHub Actions

CI/CD

Job description

Senior Data Engineer

WorkCover Queensland | Brisbane | Hybrid

Talenza are partnering with WorkCover Queensland to help them build a team for a new greenfield Snowflake data platform. As a Senior Data Engineer, you'll design and build the pipelines, data models and curated data products that power reporting, analytics and operational decision-making.

What you'll do

• Build and optimise scalable data pipelines, transformations and reusable data products.
• Develop data models and semantic layers for reporting and analytics.
• Apply automated testing, CI/CD, monitoring and deployment automation.
• Embed data quality, security, privacy, lineage and metadata into solutions.
• Support production platforms, resolve performance issues and mentor other engineers.

What you'll bring

• 5+ years delivering enterprise-scale data and analytics solutions.
• Strong Python and SQL skills, including Airflow DAG development.
• Snowflake preferred; strong Databricks experience considered.
• Experience with GitHub, GitHub Actions, CI/CD and automated testing.
• A coding mindset, with practical examples of using AI to accelerate delivery.

Why join?

• You'll be hands-on from day one, helping build the pipelines, patterns and data products that will power WorkCover's modern data platform while learning from and collaborating with experienced technical leaders.
• Amazing leadership team
• Hybrid working is around 50% in the Brisbane office.
• Permanent Opportunity
• Salary sacrificing options available (car and laptop)
• Brisbane CBD office