Senior Data Engineer - Databricks / PowerBI

Talent Insights Group; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 170,000; Part time

Job summary

Talent Insights Group seeks a Senior BI / Data Engineer in Sydney to own data through to story, collaborating with stakeholders to translate needs into scalable data models and dashboards.

You'll work hands-on with Databricks, ETL pipelines, star schemas, and self-serve reporting, delivering robust dashboards in Power BI/Tableau while ensuring data quality and performance.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on ETL and data modelling experience.
• Demonstrable Power BI development experience for dashboards and reports.
• Solid SQL/DAX skills for building data models and queries.
• Experience with Databricks and managing pipelines end-to-end.

Responsibilities

• Partner with stakeholders to gather requirements and shape data and visualization solutions.
• Hands-on with Databricks, monitoring, optimizing, and troubleshooting pipelines.
• Design and build ETL pipelines and data models across multiple sources.
• Build star schema and medallion architectures to support self-serve reporting.
• Validate data quality before it reaches dashboards and reports.
• Create Power BI/Tableau dashboards that tell a clear data story.
• Write and optimize SQL, DAX and Power Query for performance at scale.
• Own problems end-to-end and work autonomously.

Skills

ETL & data modelling

Power BI development

SQL

DAX

Databricks

Stakeholder management

Tools

Databricks

Power BI

Tableau

SQL

Power Query

Job description

2 x Senior BI / Data Engineer - Daily rate contract

About the Role

Talent Insights is partnering with a Sydney-based enterprise as they build out their analytics function and push towards self-serve reporting.

We're looking for someone who can sit with a stakeholder, translate what they actually need, build the underlying data model and ETL pipeline, validate the data is fit for purpose, then bring it to life in a dashboard. One person owning data through to story, not a hand-off between a data person and a viz person.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner directly with stakeholders to gather requirements and shape them into a data and visualisation solution
• Hands on with Databricks. Practical experience in pipeline monitoring, optimisation, and troubleshooting.
• Design and build ETL pipelines and data models across multiple source systems
• Build star schema and medallion architecture models to support self-serve reporting
• Validate and quality-check data before it reaches a dashboard
• Build Power BI/Tableau dashboards that clearly tell the story behind the data
• Write and optimise SQL, DAX and Power Query for performance at scale
• Work autonomously, owning problems end-to-end rather than waiting for direction

Skills & Experience: Must haves

• Strong hands-on ETL and data modelling experience
• Deep, demonstrable Power BI development experience
• Solid SQL and DAX skills
• Hands-on Databricks experience -
• Hands on with Databricks. Experience in pipeline monitoring, optimisation, and troubleshooting.
• Self-driven with strong stakeholder management, comfortable running requirements conversations and owning the outcome.

Nice to have

• Python experience nice to have, not essential
• A genuine passion for turning data into a clear, compelling story, not just building charts
• Prior experience blending data engineering/modelling work with visualisation delivery, rather than working purely on one side of that line.