Senior SQL & Data Platform Lead (Azure & Fabric)

Pope Recruitment Pty; Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Energy Bay is seeking a Senior Database Administrator based in Sydney to own the SQL Server estate and Microsoft Fabric data platform. You will lead data pipelines, refreshes, and ETL/transformations, while driving the migration of databases to Azure and ensuring secure, governed data for core systems and BI reporting.

Reporting to the Head of IT, you will monitor capacity and cost, implement data standards, and collaborate with the Dev team on schema design and data requirements to support a

Qualifications

• 5+ years with Microsoft SQL Server in a senior DBA or data platform role.
• Experience migrating databases to Azure (Azure SQL or Managed Instance) and building ETL pipelines in Fabric.
• Bachelor's in IT, CS or related field; DP-300 desirable.

Responsibilities

• Own the SQL Server estate, including performance, availability, backup, recovery and security.
• Own the Microsoft Fabric workspaces, including the data, pipelines and scheduled refreshes.
• Monitor capacity and cost across SQL and Fabric, and tune queries and indexes.
• Plan and deliver the migration of SQL Server databases to Azure SQL or Managed Instance with the Senior Infrastructure Engineer.
• Test, validate and cut over databases with no data loss.
• Design, build and maintain ETL pipelines, dataflows and notebooks in Fabric and Data Factory.
• Define and manage the raw, cleansed and curated data layers so reporting draws from governed data.
• Monitor pipeline and refresh runs, and resolve failures quickly.
• Set data standards, naming conventions, access controls and data quality checks.
• Maintain data dictionaries and lineage for key datasets.
• Work with the Dev team on schema design, releases and data requirements.
• Provide reliable data for BI reporting and record all changes in the IT change log.

Skills

SQL Server

Azure migration

ETL pipelines

Data Fabric

BI data provisioning

Education

Bachelor's in IT/CS

DP-300 desirable

Tools

Azure SQL

Managed Instance

Data Factory

Fabric

Power BI

Job description

Energy Bay is seeking a Senior Database Administrator based in Sydney to own the SQL Server estate and Microsoft Fabric data platform. You will lead data pipelines, refreshes, and ETL/transformations, while driving the migration of databases to Azure and ensuring secure, governed data for core systems and BI reporting.

Reporting to the Head of IT, you will monitor capacity and cost, implement data standards, and collaborate with the Dev team on schema design and data requirements to support a