We're looking for an experienced Technical Lead - Data Engineering to join a major enterprise data transformation and lead the technical delivery of two strategic data initiatives.

This is a hands-on Technical Lead role for someone who enjoys staying close to the technology while taking ownership of solution design, technical direction and engineering delivery.

You’ll work across a modern AWS and Databricks environment , partnering with architects, engineers and business stakeholders to turn requirements into scalable, production-ready data solutions.

Responsibilities

- Lead the technical design and delivery of enterprise data engineering solutions.
- Translate business requirements into detailed technical designs and Low-Level Designs (LLDs) .
- Design scalable and secure data solutions using Databricks and AWS .
- Remain hands-on across development, implementation and code reviews.
- Design and deliver modern data pipelines and ETL/ELT solutions .
- Provide technical direction and mentoring to Data Engineers.
- Work closely with architecture, business and delivery stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.




- Ensure solutions meet enterprise architecture, security and data governance standards.
- Support testing, deployment and production implementation.

Requirements

- Strong experience as a Technical Lead, Lead Data Engineer within complex enterprise environments.
- Deep hands-on Databricks experience is essential.
- Experience with some of the following Databricks capabilities - must have at least 2 to 3 things :
- Databricks Genie
- Semantic modelling
- Managed MCP Servers
- Vector Stores / Vector Search indexes
- Lakebase

- Strong AWS data engineering experience, ideally across S3, Glue, Lambda, EMR or related services.
- Strong development skills across Python, SQL and/or Spark .
- Proven experience designing modern data platforms, pipelines and scalable data architectures.
- Experience producing detailed LLDs and technical specifications .
- Robust stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to communicate technical concepts clearly.
- Experience working within Agile delivery environments.

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📌 AWS Technical Lead / Databricks (City of Sydney)
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📍 City of Sydney