Your New Company

This organisation is investing heavily in modern cloud-based data platforms, advanced analytics, and data governance to enable data-driven decision-making across the business.

As part of a high-performing data team, you will play a key leadership role in shaping the organisation's enterprise data platform strategy while building scalable, secure, and future-ready data solutions.

Your New Role

As the Senior Data Engineer / Technical Lead, you will be responsible for the design, development, optimisation, and technical leadership of the organisation's data lake, data warehouse, and cloud analytics platforms.

You will provide technical direction across enterprise data initiatives, work closely with business and technology stakeholders, and mentor a team of Data Engineers while driving best practices across architecture, governance, automation, and DevOps.

Key responsibilities include:

- Leading the architecture, design and delivery of enterprise data platforms and analytics solutions.
- Developing scalable ELT/ETL data pipelines and modern cloud-native data engineering capabilities.
- Designing and managing enterprise data warehouse and data lake solutions.
- Providing technical leadership, mentoring and guidance to Data Engineers and project teams.
- Driving data governance, security, privacy and compliance standards across the platform.
- Leading CI/CD, DevOps and deployment automation practices.
- Working closely with business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into scalable technical solutions.
- Supporting the modernisation of legacy data environments and cloud migration initiatives.
- Developing platform roadmaps and identifying opportunities to leverage emerging technologies.
- Ensuring operational excellence, platform reliability and high service availability.

What You'll Need To Succeed

Essential Experience





- Extensive experience as a Senior Data Engineer, Data Engineering Lead or Technical Lead.
- Strong experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale Data Lake and Data Warehouse solutions.
- Proven hands-on experience with Snowflake including architecture, performance optimisation, data modelling, security, and data sharing capabilities.
- Strong experience with Talend for enterprise ETL/ELT development, data integration, orchestration and data migration initiatives.
- Experience building scalable cloud-native data platforms within Azure, AWS or hybrid cloud environments.
- Expertise in data pipeline development, data transformation and data integration practices.
- Robust experience working with large, complex and heterogeneous datasets.
- Experience implementing Data Governance, Data Quality and Data Security frameworks.
- Proven experience leading technical teams and mentoring Data Engineers.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.

Technical Skills

- Snowflake
- Talend Data Integration
- SQL
- Python
- Data Warehousing
- Data Lake Architecture
- ETL / ELT Development
- Data Modelling
- Azure Data Platform Services
- AWS Data Services
- CI/CD and DevOps
- API Integration
- Data Governance & Security
- Agile Delivery

Desirable

- Experience within large and complex enterprise environments.
- Experience supporting advanced analytics, data science or AI initiatives.
- Knowledge of modern cloud architecture frameworks and emerging data technologies.
- Tertiary qualifications in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related discipline.

What You'll Get In Return

- Opportunity to lead a major enterprise data transformation program.
- Exposure to modern cloud data technologies and large-scale analytics initiatives.
- High-profile stakeholder engagement across the organisation.
- Collaborative and innovative environment focused on data-driven decision making.

📌 Senior Data Engineer (Sydney)
🏢 Hays
📍 Sydney