Want to raise the bar for an entire data engineering team?

We’re looking for a Lead Data Engineer to be the team’s “Bar Raiser”: setting the standard, mentoring engineers and building a data platform that becomes the single source of truth for the business. Hands‑on, 7+ years’ experience.

What you’ll do

- Lead the design and build of a high-performing data engineering platform
- Build ingestion and transformation pipelines and the patterns behind reusable data products
- Work with the Head of Data Engineering to deliver the data engineering strategy
- Mentor and inspire engineers, and drive best practices and better ways of working
- Partner with data scientists, ML engineers, analysts, DevOps and business stakeholders




- Keep data products secure, reliable and well governed

What you’ll bring

- 7+ years of hands‑on data engineering
- Advanced SQL and Python
- ETL/ELT, dimensional modelling, data lakes and warehouses, CDC, orchestration and PII protection
- Experience with at least one major cloud (AWS, GCP or Azure)
- A problem-solving mindset, especially when the problem is ambiguous

Positive to have:

- dbt
- Snowflake or Databricks
- Airflow
- Fivetran or Airbyte
- CI/CD
- Terraform
- MLOps

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📌 Lead Data Engineer (Sydney)
🏢 Zentact Systems
📍 Sydney