Data Engineering Manager

About Our Client

Our client is a leading, government funded organisation which is going through a large digital transformation. As key part of this evolution is scaling their current data capability to support their reporting, analytics, and emerging AI capability.

Role Purpose

This role will play a hands-on and highly influential role in designing, building, and enhancing the organisation's cloud-based data platform.

You will walk into an established snowflake platform, one fit for current purpose, but one being assessed, evaluated and subsequently redesigned for future use. This position will be key to shaping how the platform evolves to be fit for purposes, working closely with the Head of Data and key business stakeholders. You will be involved in vendor section and then management to enable you to scale a team and get the new platform up and running over the next two years.

This isn't a data architect position, but a senior engineer or team leader looking to step into a managerial role whilst remaining hands on technically. You will have a lot of involvement in scope and solution design, taking the lead in scaling and redesigning the platform.

This role is central to improving data accessibility, delivering high-quality data assets, and enabling analytics and advanced data initiatives across the business.

Due to the nature of the data, this role is only open to Australian Citizens, or those with Permanent residency who are on the path to citizenship.

Key Responsibilities

Data Engineering & Design

- Design and deliver scalable data pipelines and data models using modern cloud technologies.

- Build and maintain the organisation's data engineering layer within Snowflake and Azure.

- Develop robust ELT/ETL patterns across batch, CDC, event-driven, and API-based integrations.

Data Platform Delivery

- Oversee platform reliability, monitoring, optimisation, and lifecycle management.

- Ensure data assets are secure, trusted, and well-governed.

Vendor & Partner Management

- Work closely with external vendors and MSPs to ensure high-quality engineering outcomes.

- Provide guidance, technical direction, and quality oversight across delivery partners.

Analytics Enablement

- Provide strong data foundations to support business intelligence, analytics, and emerging ML/GenAI initiatives.

- Translate stakeholder needs into fit-for-purpose technical designs.

Capability Building

- Establish and document best-practice engineering standards and patterns.

- Play a key role in shaping and contributing to a future data engineering team.

Essential Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

- Hands-on technical experience with Snowflake, databricks, dbt, Python, and Tableau.

- Strong ability to design scalable data models and pipelines (without needing to be an enterprise architect).

- Practical knowledge of Azure data services and cloud-native engineering patterns.

- Experience working with ingestion methods including APIs, CDC, batch, and event-driven architectures.

- Familiarity with BI tools and semantic layers (Tableau or Power BI).

- Understanding of governance and metadata tools such as Microsoft Purview.

- Demonstrated vendor management and external delivery oversight experience.

- Excellent communication skills with the ability to simplify complex concepts.

- Experience working within agile, cloud-based engineering environments.

- Relevant tertiary qualifications or equivalent experience.

What's on Offer

- A highly influential role as a key hire within the expanding data function.

- Ownership of a modern, cloud-native data platform and engineering stack.

- Opportunity to contribute to the design and formation of a future data engineering team.

- Exposure to advanced analytics, ML, and AI initiatives.

- Flexible working arrangements (Sydney based).

- $170,000 - $190,000 inc super plus benefits

If you wish to apply for this position, please submit your resume by clicking the 'Apply Now' button. For further information please contact Mark Penn at Clicks IT Recruitment on +61 427 409 657.

At Clicks we embrace diversity, inclusion and equal opportunity. First Nations people are encouraged to apply.

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