Senior Data Engineer

About the Client This client is a leading Australian wealth management company that provides superannuation, financial advice, and asset management services. the company traces its origins back to 1846. About the Role We are seeking an experienced Senior Data Engineer to join a high-performing Data Engineering team delivering enterprise-scale data solutions on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This is a hands-on engineering role where you'll design, build and optimise modern data pipelines that enable trusted, scalable data for reporting, analytics and business decision-making. Working closely with Solution Designers, Data Architects and cross-functional technology teams, you'll play a key role in delivering robust batch and real-time data solutions while driving engineering best practices, mentoring team members and contributing to the continuous improvement of the data platform. Required Experience: - Design, develop and maintain scalable batch and real-time data pipelines on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). - Build robust ETL/ELT solutions to ingest, integrate, transform and model data from multiple enterprise source systems. - Collaborate with Solution Designers, Data Architects and business stakeholders to deliver data solutions aligned to business and technical requirements. - Develop high-quality, production-ready code using modern software engineering practices. - Optimise data pipelines for performance, scalability, reliability and cost efficiency. Implement automated testing, monitoring and CI/CD practices to support reliable production deployments. - Conduct code reviews and provide technical guidance to engineers and delivery partners. - Troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis and implement long-term improvements. - Champion engineering standards, reusable frameworks and continuous improvement initiatives across the data engineering function. - Work collaboratively within Agile delivery teams and contribute to sprint planning, estimation and technical design discussions. About You You'll be a passionate Data Engineer who enjoys solving complex engineering problems while delivering reliable, scalable data solutions within enterprise environments. You'll bring: - 10+ years' experience in Data Engineering, Software Engineering or ETL Development. - Strong commercial experience delivering enterprise data solutions on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) . - Expertise with BigQuery , Dataflow, Cloud Composer (Airflow), Pub/Sub and Cloud Storage. - Advanced SQL skills and strong programming experience with Python (Java or Scala also beneficial). - Strong understanding of ETL/ELT frameworks, data integration and modern data engineering principles. - Experience designing dimensional data models and enterprise data warehouse solutions. - Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred) and automated testing. - Strong understanding of data quality, metadata management, monitoring and observability. - Experience tuning data pipelines for performance, scalability and reliability. - Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to work across Architecture, Security, Infrastructure and business teams. - Previous experience mentoring engineers and performing technical code reviews. Nice to Have - Experience with streaming technologies such as Pub/Sub or Kafka. - Experience working within Financial Services, Insurance or other highly regulated industries. - Exposure to DataOps, DevOps and modern cloud engineering practices. - Experience with containerisation technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes. - Google Cloud certifications. What's on Offer Opportunity to work on a large-scale enterprise cloud data platform. Modern GCP technology stack and engineering-led environment. Collaborative, high-performing team with strong technical leadership. Exposure to enterprise architecture, cloud transformation and modern data engineering practices. Flexible working arrangements with hybrid/remote options. *Melbourne or Sydney