Senior Data Engineer

About us:

We are NCS Australia! We have brought together Australia’s best tech talent, working as one to harness technology and advance our communities, to make the extraordinary happen.

We're proud of our rich history of partnering with our clients to develop end to end digital technology solutions to accelerate their transformation and innovation journey. For over 40+ years our diverse global teams have delivered large-scale, mission-critical, multi-platform projects to governments and enterprises. 

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Data Engineer with deep experience in Databricks or Snowflake and strong hands‑on capability with dbt to lead the design, development, and optimisation of modern data platforms. The ideal candidate will bring strong technical leadership, the ability to build scalable data pipelines, and experience shaping enterprise‑grade data solutions that support analytics, reporting, and advanced modelling.

In this role, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable data pipelines and transformation workflows using Databricks or Snowflake in combination with dbt, ensuring high performance, reliability, and strong engineering standards across the data platform. You will lead solution design efforts, contributing to architecture across ingestion, storage, modelling, and consumption layers while implementing modern data engineering patterns such as ELT, medallion architecture, and CI/CD-enabled development. You will configure and optimise platform components including clusters, warehouses, permissions, and governance frameworks, and collaborate closely with cloud, analytics, and data science teams to deliver robust, production‑ready solutions. The role also includes managing vendor relationships, supporting data quality and lineage frameworks, automating testing and monitoring, and driving continuous improvement through code reviews, engineering best practices, and mentorship of junior team members.

• Strong hands‑on experience with Databricks (PySpark / Spark SQL) or Snowflake.
• Proficiency with dbt Core or dbt Cloud, including model development, testing, documentation, and deployment.
• Strong SQL development expertise, with experience working on complex transformations and performance tuning.
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
• Hands-on experience with version control (Git), CI/CD, and workflow orchestration tools (Airflow, Azure Data Factory, etc.).
• Understanding of medallion architecture, ELT patterns, and modular data modelling.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving capability.
• Excellent communication and strong stakeholder management skills.
• Proven ability to lead initiatives, work independently, and support decision-making across data projects.

Why join us: 

NCS Australia is where you can feel at home, nurturing your talents and skills as we make tomorrow together, one day at a time. Our benefits include paid parental leave, initiatives focused on your well-being and discounted health insurance. You will also enjoy discounts on various products and services and be regularly recognised and rewarded for high performance. We are committed to your career development through our Capability Fingerprint, industry and partner training programs, special interest groups, and an AI-driven learning platform. No matter where you are in your career, we offer meaningful work and opportunities for growth.

NCS Australia is an equal-opportunity employer, and we take pride in our commitment to valuing and supporting our people and the communities we serve.We are dedicated to attracting, retaining and developing our people regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability and age. Applications are encouraged from all sectors of the community and we strongly encourage applications from the Veterans, Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community.

At NCS Australia, we are committed to supporting adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process, as well as during employment. We actively support and encourage people with disability to apply. 

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Work rights and background checks: 

To be eligible for a position with us, applicants will need to have valid work rights for Australia and be willing to undergo a comprehensive background checking process, including probity and police checks