Senior Data Engineer: Microsoft Fabric & Pipelines Lead

Mip; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hybrid work model

Exposure to marquee Australian clients

Job summary

Mip is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to own delivery and hands-on work with Microsoft Fabric, with Snowflake or Databricks as a nice-to-have. The role is Sydney-based, requiring 4+ days in the office and full Australian work rights. You will lead data squads, design data models, and drive CI/CD and governance across projects.

Strong SQL and Python are essential, along with leadership and excellent communication with both engineers and business stakeholders. Flexible hybrid work is offered.

Qualifications

• 5-10+ years in data engineering in consulting or complex enterprise environments.
• Sydney-based and able to work a minimum of 4 days per week in the office.
• Must have full working rights in Australia.
• Proven experience leading project workstreams/small teams.
• Strong hands-on with Microsoft Fabric and at least one of Snowflake or Databricks.
• Solid SQL and Python skills; familiarity with Parquet/Delta/Iceberg.
• Excellent communication skills with engineers and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery for a small data squad: plan iterations, run ceremonies, manage scope and risks, maintain RAID, and provide regular status updates.
• Work with architects/consultants on solution design, estimation and SoWs; demo increments to business/exec users.
• Design and build scalable data models and pipelines on Microsoft Fabric and Snowflake/Databricks.
• Implement notebook/dbt transformations and enforce best practices (modularity, lineage, CI checks).
• Set up CI/CD for data projects (Git, Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions).
• Optimise performance and cost (Fabric capacities, pipeline runtimes; Snowflake warehouses or Databricks clusters).
• Ensure security and governance (RLS/column security, PII handling, Purview/lineage).
• Keep documentation and reusable components current for the practice.

Skills

SQL

Python

Microsoft Fabric

Leadership

CI/CD

Communications

Tools

Git

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

dbt

Job description

Mip is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to own delivery and hands-on work with Microsoft Fabric, with Snowflake or Databricks as a nice-to-have. The role is Sydney-based, requiring 4+ days in the office and full Australian work rights. You will lead data squads, design data models, and drive CI/CD and governance across projects.

Strong SQL and Python are essential, along with leadership and excellent communication with both engineers and business stakeholders. Flexible hybrid work is offered.