Senior Data Platform Engineer - Snowflake & AWS

Latitude Financial Services; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Take 5 initiative and well-being

Job summary

Latitude Financial Services is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to lead the end-to-end data engineering delivery of platforms and pipelines. You will translate architectural direction into scalable, secure designs and contribute hands-on implementation, testing, deployment, and production support with both local and offshore teams.

You will establish and enforce CI/CD, observability, and DevSecOps practices, ensuring data integrity, security, and performance across data products while collaborating

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or information technology or a related discipline.
• 7+ years of experience in data engineering, including experience leading the technical delivery of complex data solutions.
• Strong hands-on experience with cloud data platforms and services — Snowflake and AWS.
• Demonstrated experience designing and building scalable data pipelines using modern technologies such as dbt, Airflow, Kafka, Spark.
• Strong programming and automation experience using Python, SQL, Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, monitoring, observability and DevSecOps practices for data platforms.
• Experience applying Infrastructure as Code and automation-first principles to the development and operation of data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end engineering delivery of data platforms, pipelines and data products, ensuring solutions meet functional and non-functional requirements.
• Translate architectural direction into practical, scalable, and secure designs using Snowflake, AWS, and related frameworks.
• Remain hands-on with solution development, testing, troubleshooting, deployment, and production support.
• Uphold CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and DevSecOps standards across delivery teams.
• Build solutions enabling secure data movement and interoperability across platforms and teams.
• Provide day-to-day technical direction and mentoring to engineers, including offshore teams.

Skills

Snowflake

AWS

dbt

Airflow

Kafka

Spark

Python

SQL

Terraform

CloudFormation

CI/CD

DevSecOps

Data governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or information technology

Job description

Latitude Financial Services is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to lead the end-to-end data engineering delivery of platforms and pipelines. You will translate architectural direction into scalable, secure designs and contribute hands-on implementation, testing, deployment, and production support with both local and offshore teams.

You will establish and enforce CI/CD, observability, and DevSecOps practices, ensuring data integrity, security, and performance across data products while collaborating