Senior Data Engineer - Databricks (NV1)

_{18th June, 2026}

Senior Data Engineer (Must hold active NV-1 Clearance)
6 Months
Melbourne (Hybrid Working)
$900-$950 p/d

About the opportunity:

A well-regarded technology consultancy is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join a client-embedded engagement for six months. You'll be hands-on across the full data stack, building pipelines, tuning platform performance, and shipping production-ready data products.

What you'll be doing:

• Build and maintain data pipelines across batch and streaming, covering ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and observability, to feed analytics, BI, and API consumers.
• Work across Databricks and Snowflake environments, writing and optimising queries, transformations, and data models at scale.
• Take solution designs from concept to production, with a focus on performance, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
• Work directly with client engineers, analysts, and stakeholders, clarifying requirements, diagnosing issues, and making sound implementation calls together.
• Write tests (unit, integration, data quality) and clear technical documentation covering lineage, standards, and operational runbooks.
• Contribute to code reviews and technical direction without carrying people-management responsibility. 
• Use AI-assisted tooling and agentic workflows where they genuinely help, while exercising the engineering judgment to know when to trust the output.

• 5+ years in data or software engineering
• Proven delivery on Databricks and/or Snowflake
• Strong Python/PySpark and SQL for scalable pipelines
• Hands-on with ETL/ELT and modern orchestration tools (Airflow, dbt, Kafka or similar)
• Solid grasp of data modelling, governance, and quality
• Comfortable in client-facing or consulting environments
• Pragmatic approach to CI/CD and engineering best practice
• Strong communication skills and the ability to influence technical stakeholders without relying on authority

• Databricks Data Engineer Professional certification
• Snowflake SnowPro Core certification