Senior Data Engineer Lead: Databricks, Snowflake & AWS

Cox Purtell; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Cox Purtell is seeking a Lead Data Engineer in Sydney to design and deliver data platforms using Databricks, Snowflake and AWS. The role is permanent and offers exposure to government, financial services and enterprise clients with varied data estates and architecture decisions that shape outcomes.

You will own platform components end to end, guide technical direction on large programs, mentor engineers, and work directly with client tech leaders to ensure scalable, cost-aware solutions that

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in Databricks (Spark/PySpark) and Snowflake for warehouse sizing and data pipelines.
• Hands-on AWS data platform experience (Glue/Redshift) and related services.
• Strong SQL and data modelling, with dbt knowledge valued.
• Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and CI/CD for data platforms.
• Experience using AI tools to enhance engineering workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver data platforms for diverse clients and estates.
• Lead or influence technical direction on large programs, mentoring engineers.
• Own platform components end to end and make design calls.
• Explain tradeoffs to tech and non-technical stakeholders and keep delivery on track.
• Leverage AI tooling to reduce boilerplate and accelerate delivery.

Skills

Databricks

Snowflake

AWS

SQL

dbt

Terraform

CI/CD

Delta Lake

S3/Lambda/Step Functions

AI tooling

Cost & scalability

Leadership influence

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

AWS

Terraform

dbt

CI/CD tooling

Delta Lake

S3/Lambda/Step Functions

Job description

Cox Purtell is seeking a Lead Data Engineer in Sydney to design and deliver data platforms using Databricks, Snowflake and AWS. The role is permanent and offers exposure to government, financial services and enterprise clients with varied data estates and architecture decisions that shape outcomes.

You will own platform components end to end, guide technical direction on large programs, mentor engineers, and work directly with client tech leaders to ensure scalable, cost-aware solutions that