Staff Data Platform Engineer - Modernisation & Data Products

cba; Perth; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Bankwest Technology seeks an experienced Staff Data Engineer to shape a modern data platform. You’ll design and operate scalable data pipelines using Snowflake, dbt, and AWS while mentoring engineers and setting platform direction.

You will collaborate with product, analytics and data science teams to deliver high-value data solutions and ensure robust data governance and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• An experienced data engineering practitioner who can move between detailed technical delivery and conversations with senior stakeholders.
• Learning agility is essential as tools and AI-assisted engineering practices continue to evolve.

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.

Skills

Data pipelines

Data modelling

SQL

Snowflake

dbt

Python

Git

GitHub Actions

AWS

S3

EC2

EMR

CI/CD

Splunk

AppDynamics

Observe

Obstack

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

Python

Git

GitHub Actions

AWS

S3

EC2

EMR

CI/CD

Splunk

AppDynamics

Observe

Obstack

Job description

Bankwest Technology seeks an experienced Staff Data Engineer to shape a modern data platform. You’ll design and operate scalable data pipelines using Snowflake, dbt, and AWS while mentoring engineers and setting platform direction.

You will collaborate with product, analytics and data science teams to deliver high-value data solutions and ensure robust data governance and operational excellence.