Lead Data Engineer (AEP)
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📍 Sydney, NSW | Permanent
💰 $210,000 - $220,000 + Super + Bonus
Join a high-impact data and marketing technology transformation within a leading financial services environment. This is an opportunity to step into a tech leadership role where you'll help shape the future of customer data, personalisation, and real-time decisioning.
The organisation is investing heavily in modern data platforms and focused on building strong internal engineering capability.
As a Lead Data Engineer (Tech Lead), you'll combine hands-on engineering with technical leadership.
You'll be responsible for designing scalable data solutions, setting engineering standards, and mentoring a growing team, while contributing directly to the build of a next-generation data platform.
- Design and build scalable, production-grade data platforms
- Develop and optimise ETL/ELT pipelines
- Deliver data solutions supporting personalisation and real-time decisioning
- Work across modern cloud ecosystems, including Snowflake
- Drive engineering best practices and technical direction
- Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders
- Mentor engineers and uplift team capability
- Support the shift from vendor reliance to internal capability
- Strong experience in data engineering at a senior or lead level
- Expertise in Snowflake or similar cloud data platforms
- Experience with Adobe Experience Platform (AEP) or comparable CDP tools
- Advanced SQL and strong Python skills
- Proven experience building ETL/ELT pipelines
- Solid understanding of data architecture and modelling
- Knowledge of data governance (lineage, quality, metadata)
- Exposure to Java or communication orchestration (desirable)
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills
- Work on a large-scale transformation program
- Opportunity to shape technical direction
- Build modern, scalable data solutions
- Collaborative, high-performing team environment
- Competitive salary and bonus
If you're a hands-on Tech Lead looking to make an impact in a large-scale data transformation, we'd love to hear from you.