About the prospect
A major Australian media business is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join its Enterprise Data team and build high-performing data products while reducing complexity across its data systems and models. Working closely with Product on data publishing, you'll help process hundreds of millions of events a day from the organisation's leading news and publishing brands, and centralise enterprise data in the data warehouse to inform business operations and strategy.

The role

- Design, develop and maintain scalable data pipelines and models that extract, load and transform data from multiple sources into the data warehouse
- Lead and guide solution designs, making sure the team understands the technical "why" and "how", and document them to build collective knowledge
- Champion engineering best practices across coding, DevOps and metadata standardisation
- Bring AI tools into daily workflows for code suggestions, data profiling and automated testing
- Partner with Product Managers, Cyber Security and Platform Engineering to shape data solutions and resolve incidents

What you'll bring

- Fluency in Python and SQL,



with a deep understanding of OLTP and OLAP schema design
- Proven experience leading the design of data pipelines and managing infrastructure with tools such as Apache Airflow and dbt
- Proficiency with a major cloud platform (GCP, AWS or Azure) and CI/CD solutions such as Cloud Build or Concourse
- Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, and the ability to use AI to support engineering tasks
- Excellent interpersonal skills, able to lead technical discussions and build consensus across cross-functional teams

Highly regarded: a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field, and a deep understanding of cloud migration strategies, best practices and pitfalls.

Culture

- Designs are documented so knowledge is shared across the team
- Data engineers work closely with Product Managers rather than in a silo
- AI tools are encouraged as part of everyday engineering work

Apply now to help power data products at scale on a 3-month contract with an immediate start.

📌 Data Engineer - 3 month contract Immed Start (Sydney)
🏢 PRA
📍 Sydney