Senior Data Engineer

North Sydney | Contract | Enterprise data platform for one of Australia’s leading media companies The role

You’ll join the Enterprise Data team at one of Australia’s leading media companies, home to some of the nation’s best-known news and business publications.

This is a senior, hands-on engineering role in the Data Publishing space, processing hundreds of millions of audience events every day.

You’ll design and lead how data is built, moved and modelled into the warehouse, so the business can use it to drive operations and strategy.

What you’ll do

- Build the pipelines: design, develop and maintain scalable data pipelines and models that bring data from many sources into the warehouse.
- Lead the design: guide solution design so the team understands both the “why” and the “how”, and document designs so knowledge is shared.
- Set the standard: champion engineering best practice across coding, DevOps and metadata standards.
- Bring in AI: use AI tools in everyday work,



from code suggestions to data profiling and automated testing.
- Partner with Product: work closely with Product Managers to shape data solutions around end-user needs.
- Work across teams: collaborate with Cyber Security and Platform Engineering to maintain standards and resolve incidents.

What you’ll bring (mandatory)

- Solid Python and SQL, with a deep understanding of OLTP and OLAP schema design.
- Proven experience leading the design of data pipelines using tools such as Apache Airflow and dbt.
- Hands-on experience with a major cloud platform (GCP, AWS or Azure).
- Experience with CI/CD tooling such as Cloud Build or Concourse.
- Infrastructure as code experience with Terraform.
- A solid grasp of cloud migration strategy and its common pitfalls.
- The communication skills to lead technical discussions, build consensus and work well with cross-functional teams.

Please reach out to me directly or apply via the link below!

📌 Data Engineer (North Sydney)
🏢 PRA
📍 North Sydney