Lead Data Engineer

Shape the data platform that helps Levande make better decisions and support communities where older Australians can live well every day.

Reporting to the Head of Data, you’ll combine hands‑on engineering with technical leadership, improving how data is integrated, modelled and made available for reporting and analytics.

• Influence the direction: Help shape platform architecture, governance and engineering standards.
• Solve meaningful challenges: Improve reliability, performance and data quality as our data needs grow.
• Extend your impact: Guide vendor partners and turn business information needs into practical solutions.

Why You Will Like Working Here

You’ll do purposeful work, with benefits that support your life outside work and help you keep developing your expertise.

• Flexibility and leave: Sydney hybrid working, an additional annual My Day and the option for eligible employees to purchase extra leave.
• Learning and development: On‑demand learning resources, plus education assistance and paid study leave for eligible employees.
• Family support: Up to 20 weeks of paid parental leave, with superannuation contributions continuing for up to 12 months of parental leave.
• Fitness and savings: Access Fitness Passport and discounts across shopping, dining, entertainment and travel through We Shine Savings.
• 24/7 wellbeing support: Access Sonder, your Everyday Wellbeing Companion, for confidential health, safety and wellbeing support for you and your family.

What You Will Be Working On

• Extend and optimise Levande’s data platform, including infrastructure, governance, data models and processing frameworks.
• Build and maintain production pipelines, data warehouses and data lakes, supporting batch and streaming processing.
• Strengthen platform availability, security and data quality through monitoring, troubleshooting and continuous improvement.
• Partner with technology and business teams to translate reporting and analytics needs into solutions and influence system design.
• Guide vendor delivery, contribute to work priorities and help business teams build their confidence in using data.

Occasional support outside normal working hours may be required to respond to urgent issues.

What Type Of Person Will Be Successful

You bring strong engineering judgement, enjoy solving complex problems and explain technical decisions clearly. You’re comfortable adapting to changing needs and influencing others while staying close to delivery.

You’ll bring:

• Extensive data engineering experience, ideally 10 or more years, with expert SQL and data integration skills.
• Experience building and maintaining production pipelines, metadata-driven frameworks, enterprise data warehouses and data lakes, including batch and streaming environments.
• The ability to design, scale and monitor secure, resilient and high-performing data systems.
• Working knowledge of Databricks, Airflow, Spark, databases, automated testing and CI/CD pipelines, plus ETL tools such as Azure Data Factory, Informatica or Fivetran.
• Experience contributing to technical architecture, explaining design decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders, and delivering within Scrum or Kanban teams.

Experience with dbt, Python, Java or Scala would be an advantage, alongside cloud experience across Azure, Google Cloud or AWS and awareness of AI and machine learning.

At Levande, our people create communities where older Australians can live well every day. We know the best communities are built by teams with diverse experiences, perspectives and backgrounds. That's why we're committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels respected, valued and empowered to thrive. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and lived experiences.