Senior Data Engineer (AI) - Sydney - $210,000 package - Snowflake - AI

About The Company

Our client is an established, listed financial services organisation headquartered in Sydney. Data and AI are a growing priority for the business, and they’re adding a senior engineer to the team as that investment ramps up.

About The Role

This is an individual contributor role for someone who still loves to build. Most of your time will go into the business’s Snowflake setting, extending it so AI runs alongside the data rather than outside it. You’ll work day to day with AI engineers and partner with teams who want to put AI to use.

Advantages
$210k package (base + bonus + super)
Hybrid set-up
Early hands-on access to Snowflake’s AI tooling as the platform grows
Room to influence how the platform evolves

Duties / Key Responsibilities
Develop data pipelines and products in Snowflake, adding AI enrichment as data lands
Run LLM and vector search workloads inside the platform instead of moving data out
Create data models that serve reporting and AI equally well, drawing on Data Vault and dimensional methods
Set up the monitoring and alerts that keep AI and data workloads healthy
Help AI engineers connect platform outputs to applications,



and guide business teams from idea to working solution

Skills and Experience
Deep hands-on Snowflake, SQL, dbt and Python, with Snowpark a bonus
Has used Cortex or other Snowflake AI functions on live work
Some experience with LLMs, embeddings or vector search
A robust data modeller, with Data Vault knowledge preferred
Understands how data needs to be shaped for ML, including features
Works with AI coding assistants and wants to help the team do the same
Can talk about technical work in plain language

About Allura Partners

Allura Partners was founded to support private equity firms by placing C-Suites to lead, transform, and scale portfolio companies. Today, in addition to our proven private equity specialisation, we’ve become a trusted partner for major ASX-listed and private enterprises in Australia, offering executive search, recruitment, and business transformation. Known for integrity, reliability, and results, our expertise spans Executive Search, Accounting & Finance, Transformation & Change, and Technology & Digital. We connect businesses and top-tier talent, exceeding expectations and driving lasting impact.

Senior Data Engineer (AI) - Sydney - $210,000 package - Snowflake - AI

📌 Senior Data Engineer Sydney $210,000 Package Snowflake
🏢 Allura Partners
📍 Sydney