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Senior Data Engineer

Contract Type

Permanent

Location

New South Wales, Sydney

Industry

IT

Salary

AU$180000 - AU$200000 per annum

Contact Name

Chris Louch

Contact Email

chris@talenza.com.au

Date published

26-02-2026

Job Reference

BBBH20412

Description

🚀 Senior Data Engineer

📍 Sydney (Hybrid)
💰 Up to $200,000 incl. Super

Are you a hands-on Senior Data Engineer who loves building modern data platforms and scalable pipelines? This is a fantastic opportunity to play a key role in a major data transformation - migrating on-prem data into a cloud-based Common Data Layer using the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem end-to-end.

You'll help shape the target-state architecture and enable future analytics and AI capabilities across the business.



🧩 The Role

You'll design, build and optimise robust data infrastructure that powers analytics, reporting and decision-making across the organisation.

Key focus areas:

  • Build and optimise ETL/ELT pipelines across diverse data sources

  • Develop cloud data platforms (warehouses, lakes, integrations)

  • Support migration from on-prem to Microsoft Fabric

  • Ensure data quality, governance, security and performance

  • Integrate APIs, cloud, on-prem and streaming data

  • Collaborate with technical teams and business stakeholders

  • Contribute to modern data architecture and best practices



🛠️ Tech & Skills

  • Strong SQL and Python (plus Java/Scala ideal)

  • Microsoft Fabric / Azure Data Factory / Synapse / Spark

  • Cloud data platforms (Azure preferred; AWS/GCP ok)

  • Data modelling, warehousing & pipeline orchestration

  • ETL/ELT and large-scale data integration

  • Performance tuning & data quality frameworks

  • Strong communication with technical & business teams



🌟 About You

  • Passionate about data engineering and platform building

  • Enjoy hands-on delivery and solving complex data problems

  • Keen to deepen expertise in Microsoft cloud data stack

  • Comfortable working in evolving transformation environments

  • Collaborative, proactive and quality-focused



🎯 Why Join

  • Major enterprise data transformation program

  • Shape modern cloud data architecture

  • Exposure to Microsoft Fabric end-to-end

  • Enable future AI & analytics capabilities

  • Supportive, collaborative data culture

If you're a Senior Data Engineer in Sydney looking to build modern cloud data platforms with real impact, we'd love to hear from you

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