Lead Engineer Data Platforms

Your Opportunity 

Were looking for a Lead Engineer - Data Platforms to join our Technology Risk & Governance - Enterprise Data Services team.

In this role youll leverage your technical skills to develop maintain and support innovative solutions that solve real-world challenges in the payments industry. From designing and building scalable systems to ensuring seamless integration with key technologies your work will directly impact millions of users. 

Youll also make an impact by: 

• Build and enhance data integration platforms using Big Data technologies to enable efficient extraction loading and transformation of data from multiple sources.
• Optimise ETL workflows and system performance ensuring reliability through proactive monitoring troubleshooting and continuous improvement.
• Drive governance and compliance by implementing policies managing risk and overseeing configuration changes in line with enterprise standards.
• Work with complex data structures to deliver approved solutions maintain application support and respond swiftly to incidents to ensure system availability.
• Lead and inspire teams by modelling inclusive leadership fostering a high-performance culture and ensuring a safe respectful and engaging workplace aligned with company values.
• Drive talent and performance outcomes through effective workforce planning clear role definition and implementation of HR frameworks for hiring development succession planning and performance management.
• Embed strong risk management practices by identifying assessing mitigating and monitoring risks ensuring timely reporting of incidents and compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Integrate governance into daily operations collaborating with experts maintaining accurate risk records and driving adherence to organisational policies and standards.

Qualifications :

What youll bring 

To succeed in this role youll have: 

• Proven expertise in cloud-based data platforms with 9 years of experience designing building and managing large-scale environments.
• Hands-on experience with leading cloud technologies proficiency in at least one major platform (AWS GCP or Azure).
• Strong foundation in data modelling using approaches such as Kimball Inmon or Data Vault to deliver robust and scalable solutions.
• Practical experience with modern data warehousing tools like Databricks Snowflake Redshift or BigQuery and a solid understanding of Data Lake and Data Warehouse techniques.
• Problem-solving mindset with the ability to manage incidents perform root cause analysis and apply change and release management best practices.
• Advanced skills in SQL and Python plus strong data modelling expertise to design scalable well-structured solutions.
• Hands-on CI/CD experience using Terraform Cloud and GitHub to automate test and deploy data workloads.
• Proven ability working with large event-driven datasets navigating diverse schemas and delivering reliable performant pipelines.
• Experience with analytics as code tools (DBT) to standardise transformations improve data quality and enable repeatable version-controlled workflows.

Youll stand out from the crowd if you have some of the following: 

• Experience in the financial services or payments sector
• Experience working within PCI-DSS compliant environment.
• Knowledge of agile methodologies and have worked in a product led organization.
• Knowledge of Software Delivery and Development Lifecycle techniques and methodologies

Additional Information :

Why Cuscal 

At Cuscal youll find a strong successful company thats reimagining the future. And our team is right there at the heart of it all.   

Here youll deliver or support interesting ground-breaking work that has real impact - on Australias financial services sector and the millions of customers it serves. Youll innovate alongside skilled smart connected teams. And youll build an impressive fulfilling career that continues to grow.   

Youll also enjoy a range of benefits including: 

• Work in a hybrid model that supports your lifestyle and goals.

• We celebrate success: Our IGNITE program recognises individual and team achievements. 

• Wellbeing focus: We support your physical mental and financial health with holistic initiatives and access to discounts via Cuscal Advantage.

Join us and reimagine the future 

If this role excites you wed love to explore your potential and vision for the future. Screening and interviews may occur before the job ad closing date so dont wait - apply now. 

For further information about this role please contact   

Cuscal is an equal opportunity employer committed to an equitable diverse and socially inclusive work environment and a positive barrier-free recruitment process.  

We welcome applicants from an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage people living with a disability LGBTQIA and people from culturally diverse backgrounds to explore career opportunities with Cuscal.   

Note: Cuscal does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or search firms. 

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time