Senior Data Engineer

About the role

HammondCare, a not-for-profit aged care provider, is hiring a Senior Data Engineer for a permanent full-time position based in St Leonards with hybrid working. The role designs, develops and optimises the enterprise data platform, data pipelines and integration solutions, providing senior technical leadership and acting as a trusted advisor to the Data Engineering Lead on architecture, standards, performance and delivery.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of complex, scalable data engineering and integration solutions.
• Shape and evolve the data platform, lakehouse and integration ecosystem in line with enterprise architecture.
• Define and embed engineering standards, patterns and best practices across APIs, ETL/ELT, event-driven and real-time integration.
• Lead and support data and integration team members, set objectives, allocate work, coach and build capability.
• Manage performance fairly and consistently, working with the Data Engineering Lead and People Services.
• Review solutions, code and data models for security, maintainability and alignment with standards.
• Work with business and technology teams on the impact of system and business change.
• Improve platform performance, scalability and reliability through automation, monitoring and observability.
• Embed data governance, security and quality practices, including access controls, metadata, lineage and data quality.
• Partner with Analytics and AI teams on scalable data services.
• Support workforce planning, recruitment, onboarding, development and retention.

Required profile

• Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline.
• 7+ years delivering enterprise-scale data engineering solutions.
• Experience leading, coaching and managing data engineers, including performance feedback and capability development.
• Experience in Agile delivery environments.
• Commitment to HammondCare's Christian mission and values.

Required skills

• Cloud-based data platforms, ETL/ELT and integration technologies.
• Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Synapse Analytics and lakehouse architectures.
• Enterprise data pipelines and integration across multiple business and clinical systems, including APIs, real-time and event-driven patterns.
• Support for AI, machine learning or advanced analytics platforms.

What we offer

• NFP salary packaging ($15,900 tax free) plus meals and entertainment benefit (up to $2,650 tax free).
• Additional leave purchase options and 14 weeks paid parental leave.
• Flexible working, including hybrid arrangements.
• Discounts on products and services, discounted healthcare memberships and counselling support.
• Health and wellbeing programmes, reward and recognition programmes, referral bonuses and career development.