Senior Data Engineer
Summary
Senior Data Engineer for a 6-12 month contract building GCP-based data foundations for a large enterprise. Responsibilities include designing scalable data platforms, building pipelines using BigQuery and dbt, and optimizing SQL queries within an Agile environment.
Senior Data Engineer – GCP / Data Foundations
6-12 Month Contract | Sydney preferred / Melbourne
$800-1000 a day including super DOE
We’re looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join a major data transformation program within a large enterprise organisation.
The organisation is investing heavily in its data capability and foundations, with a focus on building scalable, reliable and high-performing data solutions that will support analytics, reporting and broader business initiatives.
This is a hands‑on engineering role with a strong focus on GCP, BigQuery, SQL and data modelling, working within an established Agile delivery environment.
What you’ll be doing:
- Design and build scalable data platforms, databases, schemas and data models within a complex enterprise environment
- Develop and optimise data solutions across the GCP data ecosystem
- Build robust data pipelines and transformations using BigQuery, SQL and dbt
- Design data models that are performant, maintainable and fit for purpose
- Implement new database fields, structures and data capabilities across a large organisation
- Ensure data solutions are reliable, scalable and high performing, with a strong focus on query performance
- Apply modern data engineering and ELT best practices across ingestion, transformation and modelling
- Work closely with Data Analysts, Engineers and business stakeholders to translate requirements into effective technical solutions
- Contribute to data quality, governance and engineering standards
- Help establish strong data foundations that can scale with the organisation's future needs
What we’re looking for:
We’re looking for a Data Engineer first and foremost, with strong experience building data foundations within cloud environments.
You’ll ideally have:
- Strong commercial experience as a Senior Data Engineer in a complex or enterprise environment
- Strong hands‑on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Excellent SQL skills, including query optimisation and performance tuning
- Strong experience with BigQuery
- Deep understanding of data modelling, database design and schema design
- Experience building scalable and reliable data pipelines
- Hands‑on experience with dbt / dbt Core
- Strong understanding of modern ELT and cloud data warehouse architectures
- Experience working within Agile delivery squads
- A track record of delivering successful data engineering implementations within large organisations
- The ability to talk through previous implementations and explain the technical decisions, challenges and outcomes
- A STEM, Computer Science or similarly technical background
Technology
Experience with additional GCP services and modern data tooling will be highly regarded.
Why this role?
This is an opportunity to work on a genuinely foundational data engineering program, helping shape how data is structured, stored and made available across a large organisation.
You’ll have the opportunity to work with a modern cloud data stack, solve complex engineering challenges and help establish scalable, reliable and high-performing data foundations from the ground up.