Senior Data Platform Engineer — Modernization Leader

Bankwest; Western Australia; On-site; AUD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Bankwest Technology is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to shape a modern data platform and lead hands-on delivery across Snowflake, dbt, GitHub Actions and AWS. You’ll influence standards, mentor colleagues, and turn data into meaningful business outcomes.

The role focuses on platform modernisation, automated delivery, engineering quality and use-case-led adoption within a federated, data-driven environment.

Qualifications

• Experience contributing to large-scale modernisation programs, particularly migrations from on-premises to cloud environments.
• Hands-on experience designing and developing reliable, scalable data pipelines and data platforms with strong test coverage.
• Experience delivering data engineering solutions aligned to core data design, preparation, transformation, and load concepts.
• Strong SQL capability and experience with a modern distributed data platform, such as Snowflake, AWS or a comparable environment.
• Experience with transformation and engineering tools such as dbt, Python, Git and automated deployment pipelines.
• Hands-on experience applying software engineering practices, including automated testing, code review, observability and CI/CD within a DevSecOps environment.
• The ability to isolate complex problems, make pragmatic technical decisions and deliver incrementally in an agile environment.
• Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical practices across teams without relying on formal people leadership.
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Splunk, AppDynamics, Observe, Obstack
• AWS Cloud (working experience with some of the core services EMR, EC2, S3, Auto-scaling, etc.)

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate scalable data pipelines and reusable data products across distributed data platforms.
• Apply strong data modelling, transformation and integration practices to make data reliable, well governed and fit for purpose.
• Take end-to-end ownership of data assets in production, including testing, monitoring, operational support and the resolution of critical issues.
• Work with product, analytics, data science and business stakeholders to understand high-value use cases and translate them into pragmatic technical solutions.
• Strengthen continuous integration and continuous delivery practices, automation, code quality and secure software engineering across the platform.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership, mentor engineers and influence standards, patterns, roadmaps and platform direction.
• Identify and address technical debt, delivery risks and opportunities to improve platform resilience and maintainability.
• Explore how emerging technology, including AI-assisted engineering, can support modernisation and better ways of working.

Job description

Bankwest Technology is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to shape a modern data platform and lead hands-on delivery across Snowflake, dbt, GitHub Actions and AWS. You’ll influence standards, mentor colleagues, and turn data into meaningful business outcomes.

The role focuses on platform modernisation, automated delivery, engineering quality and use-case-led adoption within a federated, data-driven environment.