Solution Designer Lead Data Engineer

We are seeking an experienced Solution Designer / Lead Data Engineer to drive a high-priority enterprise transformation initiative: uplifting modernizing and scaling our enterprise Data Ingestion framework across cloud platforms.

In this dual-capability role you will combine high-level architectural design with deep data engineering expertise. While Google Cloud Platform (GCP) forms a key part of our ecosystem this role requires a cloud-generic perspectivedesigning modular cloud-agnostic data patterns that can ingest process and govern batch and streaming data from diverse sources across multi-cloud and hybrid environments. If you excel at bridging complex business data requirements with modern resilient cloud architectures this is an opportunity to shape an enterprise data strategy from the ground up.

What Youll Be Doing

• Framework Modernization: Architect and lead the end-to-end design of a modern scalable and automated enterprise Data Ingestion framework transitioning legacy ingestion systems toward real-time event-driven cloud workflows.

• Solution Architecture & Design: Author comprehensive Solution Design Documents (SDDs) architectural blueprints data mapping specifications and reusable ingestion patterns for both batch and streaming datasets.

• Pipeline Engineering Leadership: Provide technical leadership and hands-on guidance to engineering squads building high-throughput data pipelines across major cloud provider environments (GCP AWS or Azure).

• Data Integration & Governance: Design secure standardized ingestion interfaces connecting on-premises databases enterprise SaaS tools APIs and streaming brokers into modern cloud data lakes and enterprise warehouses.

• Quality Lineage & Security: Embed automated data quality checks data lineage tracking enterprise encryption and governance controls (IAM Data Catalog DLP) directly into the ingestion lifecycle.

• Performance & Cost Optimization: Optimize data pipeline latency ensure high system availability and govern multi-cloud compute/storage costs.

Qualifications :

• Multi-Cloud Data Mastery: Extensive experience designing and building scalable data platforms across major cloud platforms (GCP AWS or Azure) using modern cloud-native data architectures.

• Solution Design Capability: Proven track record as a Solution Designer Data Architect or Lead Data Engineer crafting high-level and detailed technical designs for large-scale enterprise data ecosystems.

• Ingestion Patterns: Deep understanding of modern ingestion paradigms (batch micro-batch real-time event streaming Change Data Capture CDC and API-driven ingestion).

• Data Ecosystem Tools: Strong practical experience with distributed data tools and frameworks (e.g. Apache Spark Airflow/Composer Kafka Pub/Sub Kinesis Snowflake BigQuery or Redshift).

• Data Modeling & SQL: Advanced proficiency in SQL schema design data partitioning and data modeling strategies (e.g. Star/Snowflake schemas Data Vault).

• Programming & Automation: High proficiency in Python Scala or Java alongside Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and CI/CD automated deployment pipelines.

• Stakeholder Engagement: Exceptional communication skills with the ability to articulate complex data architecture decisions to tech leads product owners and executive stakeholders.

Highly Regarded:

• Professional Cloud Certifications (Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer AWS Certified Data Engineer or Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate).

• Hands-on experience with dbt Apache Iceberg/Delta Lake or enterprise data catalog frameworks.

• Knowledge of regulatory compliance frameworks regarding data privacy and cross-cloud data movement.

Additional Information :

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 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

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time