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

📌 Lead Data Engineer Sydney
🏢 Zentact Systems
📍 Sydney