Senior Data Engineer

Sociable Tech; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Super

Bonuses

Job summary

Sociable Tech in Sydney is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to design and deliver data platforms for government, financial services and enterprise clients using Databricks, Snowflake and AWS.

This is a consulting role with visibility in platform direction, hands-on leadership, and the opportunity to shape architecture while working on AI-accelerated solutions.

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on experience with Databricks and Snowflake in large data estates.
• Strong SQL, data modelling and ability to design scalable data platforms.
• Experience leading platform direction and influencing technical decisions.

Skills

Databricks

Spark/PySpark

Snowflake

AWS

SQL

dbt

Terraform

CI/CD

Data modelling

Platform design

Tools

Unity Catalog

Snowpipe

Streams & Tasks

Airflow / Workflows

S3 / Glue / Redshift

Power BI / Tableau

Job description

Cox Purtell Lead Data Engineer - Databricks, Snowflake & AWS

Sydney | Permanent | $150k - $220k + super | Global consulting firm - Data Infrastructure, Platform & Analytics

If you've ever lost an afternoon to a Spark job that should have run in four minutes, or rebuilt a pipeline because the first version bugged you - keep reading. Our client's Data Infrastructure, Platform & Analytics team is growing in Sydney. It's a chance to take your thinking about how data platforms should be built and apply it to large, complex programs of work - where it shapes the outcome, not just the ticket in front of you.

The work

You’ll design and deliver data platforms for government, financial services and enterprise clients, on programs big enough that the architecture decisions matter. This is consulting, so expect variety - different clients, different data estates, different problems. The upside is influence. You’ll be in the room when platform direction gets set, working alongside client technology leaders, and accountable for whether it works. The team works AI-accelerated - AI tooling is built into how platforms are designed, built and delivered, so you spend less time on boilerplate and more on the problems worth solving.

Where you fit

Every role is at technical leadership level. That doesn't mean you stop building. Technical Lead - you own platform components end to end and make the design calls. Prior people leadership isn't required - strong individual contributors who set the technical standard for others are exactly who we'd like to hear from. Principal Engineer - you lead delivery across a domain, mentor engineers and shape how a client's platform is built. Hands-on Architect - you design target-state architecture, own the cost, governance and scalability tradeoffs, and still get your hands dirty.

What you’ll bring

• Real depth in Databricks - Spark/PySpark, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Workflows - and/or Snowflake - warehouse sizing, Snowpipe, Streams & Tasks, Snowpark. Strength in one with working knowledge of the other is the sweet spot.
• Hands-on AWS data platform experience - Glue and/or Redshift in particular, plus the surrounding services (S3, Lambda, Step Functions, IAM)
• Strong SQL and data modelling, with dbt experience valued
• Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and CI/CD for data platforms
• Hands-on use of AI tools in your own engineering workflow - for code, testing, documentation or pipeline build - and a view on where they help and where they don't
• Opinions on partitioning, cluster sizing and warehouse cost - and the results to back them up
• Experience leading or influencing technical direction on large programs, whether through a title or through being the person everyone asks
• Comfort in front of clients - explaining tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders, and keeping delivery on track

Databricks, Snowflake or AWS certifications will strengthen your application. Azure experience is welcome, but this role leans AWS.

Our client can only consider Australian citizens or permanent residents for these roles.

Skills: Databricks Snowflake Amazon Web Services (AWS) AWS Glue Amazon Redshift PySpark SQL dbt Terraform Data Architecture

• + Super
• + Bonuses

Work Type: Full time

Salary: $168000-224000