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Senior Data Engineer

XPT Software Australia Pty Ltd
Posted 2 days ago, valid for 13 days
Location

Sydney, New South Wales

Salary

Competitive

Contract type

Contract

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  • The Senior Data Engineer position requires strong hands-on experience with Azure Data Lake Gen2, Synapse, and Databricks.
  • Candidates should have solid experience in PySpark/Spark SQL, along with expertise in performance tuning and job optimization.
  • A proficiency in Complex SQL and a strong understanding of mentoring junior engineers and communicating with product teams is essential.
  • Experience with Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions is required, while familiarity with streaming data processing and data governance is a plus.
  • The role offers a competitive salary of $120,000 per year and requires at least 5 years of relevant experience.

  

Job Description:

Must Have Skills:

  Strong hands‑on experience with Azure Data Lake Gen2, Synapse, Databricks

  Solid experience in PySpark / Spark SQL, Databricks performance tuning & job optimization

  Proficient in Complex SQL (window functions, CTEs, execution plans)

  Strong understanding in Mentoring junior and mid‑level engineers, Communicating trade‑offs to architects and product teams

  Experience working with Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions

Nice to Have Skills:
  Experience with Streaming & Real‑Time Data Processing on Designing low‑latency pipelines.

  Exposure to Data Governance & Metadata Management in Data classification & sensitivity labels

  Familiarity with Advanced Python Engineering Practices onPerformance‑aware Python design

  Experience working in Analytics & BI Awareness

  Knowledge of Cloud Cost Optimization & FinOps

Detailed Job Description
The Senior Data Engineer will be responsible for designing, building, and operating scalable, secure, and high‑performance data platforms. The role involves critical data pipelines and architectures that power analytics, reporting, and advanced data use cases such as machine learning and real‑time insights.

The candidate will collaborate closely with analytics, data science, product, and business teams while mentoring engineers and driving engineering best practices across the data organization.

The role combines technical leadership, architecture ownership, and business impact.

 






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