Data Engineer

About LDK Seniors Living

LDK Seniors Living vision is for every senior Australian to be treated with Love, Decency & Kindness in their ageing journey. Our core values of Love, Decency & Kindness underpin our culture and guide every aspect of everything we do for our residents and our team members. All LDK villages combine the best part of retirement living and aged care to deliver our unique One Move Promise® – our guarantee that once our residents call LDK home, they will never have to move again.

About the role

Join LDK's Innovation & Business Transformation team as a Data Engineer, where you'll play a key role in building and maintaining the data platforms, pipelines and products that support better decision-making across the organisation. Working with Databricks, SQL, Python and Power BI, you'll integrate data from multiple business systems, develop trusted and well-governed data assets, and help create a single source of truth across clinical care, finance, workforce, hospitality and customer operations. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys solving complex data challenges, collaborating with stakeholders across the business, and contributing to LDK's growing data and AI capabilities.

Role responsibilities

• Design, build, test and maintain scalable data pipelines and integrations across LDK's Databricks lakehouse environment.
• Develop and manage data solutions using SQL, Python (PySpark) and modern engineering practices, including CI/CD, version control and automated deployments.
• Monitor platform performance, troubleshoot issues, and optimise data workloads to ensure reliability, efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
• Implement data quality, governance and privacy controls, including automated testing, reconciliations, access management and documentation.
• Create and maintain trusted data products, semantic models, dashboards and reports that support business decision-making and AI initiatives.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the business to understand requirements, deliver data-driven solutions, and promote data and AI capability across LDK.

Qualifications, Experience and Skills

• Practical experience in data engineering or a related technical field, or tertiary qualifications in a STEM or technology discipline. Professional certifications such as Databricks Certified Data Engineer or Microsoft Azure Data Engineer Associate are highly regarded.
• Proven experience building, maintaining and troubleshooting data pipelines in cloud-based environments, with strong data quality and governance practices.
• Advanced SQL skills and strong programming capability, ideally with Python and PySpark, along with experience working with modern data platforms such as Databricks.
• Experience developing data models, integrating data from multiple sources and APIs, and applying software engineering practices such as version control, CI/CD and automated deployments.
• Ability to translate business requirements into effective data solutions, with strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills across both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong analytical thinking, engineering judgment and attention to data quality, combined with a curiosity for emerging data and AI technologies and alignment with LDK's values of Love, Decency and Kindness.

Our Employee Value Proposition

LDK villages have established a reputation of being ‘truly happy places’ for residents. We know that this can only be achieved if our team feel connected, respected and valued. When you join LDK, you will be joining a for-purpose, values-led, people-first organisation that empowers and invests in our employees to develop, nurture and grow individual professional capability. You will work in a friendly, open and welcoming environment.

Benefits

• Competitive salary package
• Purchased leave options, giving you the flexibility to take extra time off when you need it.
• Flexible working arrangements
• Salary packaging with novated leasing options
• Rewards and retail discounts program
• Continuous professional development and promotion opportunities
• Excellent company culture underpinned by Love, Decency and Kindness (LDK)
• Celebration of cultural events amongst staff and residents
• Employee referral bonus and retention bonus

How to apply

People who join LDK inherently possess and practice LDK values in their daily life. They have a desire and passion to apply these values toward a fulfilling purpose of caring for older people and want to work together with a team that are highly committed to the LDK vision.

If this sounds like you, and LDK sounds like the place you’ve been looking for, we would love to hear from you.

Please click on the “apply” button and follow the prompts. We will get in touch if you are shortlisted for this opportunity.

We encourage all applicants to visit our website at https://ldk.com.au/.

Kindly email people@ldk.com.au if you have any questions.

Successful applicants will be required to undergo a Police Clearance. LDK Seniors' Living has a mandatory vaccination policy in relation to influenza.