ExperTech
9 months ago
Lead Data Engineer
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Company information
- Company
- ExperTech
- Location
- Australia, New South Wales, Sydney Region, Sydney Australia
- Posted
- 9 months ago
Job description
Expertech is partnering with a high-growth fintech organisation that is building modern, digital-first finance solutions. Due to continued growth, we are looking for an experienced Lead Data Engineer to own and evolve a scalable, enterprise-grade data platform. This is a hands-on leadership role where you will design and deliver a modern lakehouse architecture while guiding engineering standards and best practices across the data function.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities
- Design and implement a modern enterprise lakehouse platform using Microsoft Fabric and Azure
- Build and maintain a Medallion Architecture, including ingestion and CDC pipelines
- Develop enterprise semantic layers and advanced data models (Star/Snowflake schemas, SCDs)
- Own the data platform end-to-end, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability
- Provide technical leadership across architecture design, code quality, and delivery execution
- Mentor and support data engineers, promoting best practice engineering standards
- Transition the organisation from ad-hoc data processing to a governed, scalable data platform
- Proven experience in a senior or lead data engineering role
- Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric, Azure, and/or Databricks
- Deep understanding of modern data architectures, including lakehouse and Medallion patterns
- Experience designing and implementing enterprise data models and semantic layersStrong stakeholder communication and leadership capabilitiesAbility to thrive in fast-paced, high-growth environments
- Experience within fintech, financial services, or regulated environments
- Exposure to data governance frameworks and CI/CD pipelines
- Strong understanding of analytics, reporting, and downstream data consumption
- Experience scaling data platforms in growing organisations
- Opportunity to shape and own a modern data platform
- Work within a high-growth, innovative fintech environment
- Competitive salary package + ESOP
- Flexible and collaborative working culture
- Opportunity to grow in to Head of Data
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