Senior Data Engineer — Hybrid Cloud Data & AI Platforms

Versent; Australia; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexibility

Learning program (Craft 180)

Salary packaging options

Health & wellbeing programmes

Team social activities

Recognition programs

Career opportunities

Job summary

Versent in Australia is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build and optimise cloud-native data platforms and AI-powered data products for enterprise clients, using Snowflake, Databricks, AWS and Azure. This hands-on role involves working directly with clients to shape requirements and deliver scalable pipelines that unlock business value.

You will contribute to data governance, quality, observability and security while advancing analytical capabilities and AI-enabled data solutions

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Data Engineering or related roles
• Hands-on Snowflake in production
• Experience with Databricks and lakehouse architectures
• Advanced SQL and Python/PySpark
• ETL/ELT pipelines and orchestration
• AWS and/or Azure cloud platforms
• Terraform for IaC
• Knowledge of Airflow, dbt, Kafka or similar
• Data modelling, governance and security practices
• Customer-facing collaboration with stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Build and optimise modern data platforms using Snowflake and Databricks
• Develop batch and real-time data pipelines for analytics, reporting, AI and ops
• Create AI-powered data products using Snowflake Cortex and semantic search
• Design scalable, secure data architectures across AWS and Azure
• Implement data quality, observability and governance frameworks
• Collaborate with client stakeholders to shape requirements and solve complex business challenges
• Apply AI-assisted engineering approaches using tools like GitHub Copilot
• Drive performance, scalability and cost optimisation across cloud data environments
• Contribute to technical design, estimation and delivery planning across engagements

Skills

Snowflake

Databricks

SQL

Python / PySpark

Airflow

dbt

Kafka

Terraform

AWS

Azure

Data modelling

Governance & security

Tools

Terraform

Airflow

dbt

Kafka

Job description

Versent in Australia is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build and optimise cloud-native data platforms and AI-powered data products for enterprise clients, using Snowflake, Databricks, AWS and Azure. This hands-on role involves working directly with clients to shape requirements and deliver scalable pipelines that unlock business value.

You will contribute to data governance, quality, observability and security while advancing analytical capabilities and AI-enabled data solutions