Senior Engineer, AI-Ready Data Platform (Snowflake)

Helia; North Sydney Council; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work options

Wellbeing support

Professional growth

North Sydney office

Job summary

Helia, Australia's first Lenders Mortgage Insurance provider, is seeking a Senior Engineer – Data & AI Platform to design and build an AI-native data platform within Snowflake. You will develop scalable data pipelines, AI-enriched datasets and reusable data products to unlock value from AI across the organisation.

You'll collaborate with AI engineers and technology teams, implement AI observability, and help shape an AI-ready data architecture that supports analytics, ML workflows and data

Qualifications

• Strong experience with Snowflake, SQL, dbt and Python, ideally including Snowpark.
• Experience with Snowflake AI capabilities and building AI-enabled workflows within a data platform.
• Exposure to LLM, vector, embedding or semantic use cases.
• Experience designing scalable data models and architectures, with knowledge of Data Vault and dimensional modelling.
• Understanding of machine learning data requirements, feature engineering and production AI/ML workflows.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools and an interest in evolving AI-enabled engineering practices.
• Strong communication and stakeholder skills, with the ability to translate business needs into practical data and AI solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable data pipelines and AI applications using Snowflake-native AI capabilities.
• Enable in-database AI, LLM, vector and semantic workflows, reducing reliance on external processing.
• Design and optimise data models and structures that support both analytical and AI workloads.
• Contribute to the evolution of our AI-ready data architecture and enterprise data modelling approaches, including Data Vault and common data models.
• Prepare and structure governed, high-quality data for AI, machine learning and advanced analytics.
• Partner with AI engineers and technology teams to integrate Snowflake-hosted intelligence into applications and workflows.
• Implement AI observability, monitoring and alerting to support reliable AI and data solutions.
• Contribute to AI-enabled engineering practices and standards, using tools such as GitHub Copilot and Cortex Code.
• Work with technical and business stakeholders to translate complex concepts into practical solutions and help build broader data and AI capability across the organisation.

Skills

Snowflake

SQL

dbt

Python

Snowpark

LLM workflows

Vector embeddings

Data Vault

Dimensional modelling

ML workflows

AI tooling

Stakeholder skills

Tools

GitHub Copilot

Cortex Code

Job description

Helia, Australia's first Lenders Mortgage Insurance provider, is seeking a Senior Engineer – Data & AI Platform to design and build an AI-native data platform within Snowflake. You will develop scalable data pipelines, AI-enriched datasets and reusable data products to unlock value from AI across the organisation.

You'll collaborate with AI engineers and technology teams, implement AI observability, and help shape an AI-ready data architecture that supports analytics, ML workflows and data