Senior Data Engineer

Senior Data Engineer

Melbourne Hybrid 180,000 – 200,000 Super

A leading Australian financial institution is expanding its data engineering capability and is looking for an experienced Senior Data Engineer to join its Melbourne-based technology team.

You’ll work on high-impact data initiatives across a large-scale financial environment, building reliable data platforms and pipelines that support analytics, reporting, customer insights and business-critical decision making.

The Role

You’ll be responsible for designing, developing and maintaining scalable data solutions while working closely with data analysts, engineers, architects and business stakeholders.

Key responsibilities include:

• Designing and developing scalable data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes
• Building and maintaining cloud-based data platforms
• Developing high-quality data models and transformation processes
• Integrating data from multiple internal and external sources
• Improving data quality, reliability and performance
• Working with stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions
• Contributing to data architecture and engineering standards
• Supporting CI/CD and automated deployment practices
• Monitoring and troubleshooting data pipelines and production environments
• Helping drive modernisation of existing data platforms and processes

About You

You’ll ideally bring:

• 5 years' experience in data engineering
• Strong experience with Python and SQL
• Experience building production-grade ETL/ELT pipelines
• Strong understanding of data modelling and data warehousing
• Experience with cloud data platforms such as Azure, AWS or GCP
• Exposure to technologies such as Databricks, Snowflake, Spark or Airflow
• Experience working with APIs and integrating disparate data sources
• Understanding of CI/CD and modern engineering practices
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Experience within banking, financial services or another highly regulated environment would be advantageous.

What’s On Offer

• 180,000 – 200,000 super
• Melbourne CBD
• Hybrid working environment
• Work on large-scale financial data platforms
• Strong investment in modern data and cloud technologies
• Opportunity to contribute to major data transformation initiatives
• Collaborative engineering culture

If you're an experienced Data Engineer looking for a role where you can work on genuinely large-scale data challenges within financial services, we'd be keen to hear from you.