Senior Data Engineer: Build Trusted Pipelines & AI at Scale

Bunnings Group Limited; Australia; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Team discount

OnePass membership

100+ exclusive member benefits

12 weeks parental leave

Career development opportunities

Store team member opportunities

Job summary

Bunnings Group Limited in Australia is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to lead complex data challenges and build trusted data products that support better decisions for customers and team.

You'll combine hands-on engineering with technical leadership, using Python, SQL, dbt, Apache Airflow and Snowflake to design reliable pipelines and reusable solutions for enterprise reporting, self-service analytics and emerging AI use cases.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in data engineering, ideally seven or more years.
• Advanced capability in Python, SQL and dbt.
• Strong hands-on experience with Apache Airflow.
• Experience designing production data solutions on Snowflake.
• Knowledge of dimensional modelling, Data Vault and modern data architecture.
• Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, observability and source control.
• A track record of providing technical leadership and mentoring engineers.
• Understanding of data governance, quality, lineage and metadata management.
• Exposure to Power BI, retail data, machine learning or AI-enabled analytics would be useful.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of trusted data products for reporting, analytics and AI initiatives.
• Build production-ready pipelines and reusable transformation frameworks.
• Design dimensional, Data Vault and semantic models that make data easier to understand and use.
• Make clear technical decisions across performance, cost, security, quality and reliability.
• Improve automation across testing, deployment, monitoring and recovery.
• Solve complex pipeline, performance and data-quality issues.
• Strengthen documentation, lineage, observability and operational readiness.
• Work with architects, engineers, BI developers, data scientists and business stakeholders.
• Coach engineers through pairing, peer reviews and knowledge sharing.
• Identify opportunities to simplify the data environment, reduce technical debt and improve developer productivity.

Skills

Data engineering

Python

SQL

dbt

Apache Airflow

Snowflake

Dimensional modelling

Data Vault

CI/CD / testing

Leadership & mentoring

Data governance

Power BI exposure

Education

Relevant qualification or equivalent experience

Tools

Snowflake

Apache Airflow

CI/CD tooling

Power BI

Job description

Bunnings Group Limited in Australia is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to lead complex data challenges and build trusted data products that support better decisions for customers and team.

You'll combine hands-on engineering with technical leadership, using Python, SQL, dbt, Apache Airflow and Snowflake to design reliable pipelines and reusable solutions for enterprise reporting, self-service analytics and emerging AI use cases.