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Senior Data & Analytics Engineer

Hays Australia

Australia
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Job Description

Your new company

An exciting opportunity exists for an experienced Senior Data & Analytics Engineer to join a large-scale data transformation program within a leading organisation. This role offers the opportunity to work on modern cloud data platforms, delivering high-quality data products and supporting advanced analytics and AI-driven initiatives.

The successful candidate will play a key role in designing, building, and maintaining scalable data solutions while working across both data engineering and analytics domains.

Your new role

As a Senior Data & Analytics Engineer, you will be responsible for developing and optimising enterprise-grade data solutions, ensuring the delivery of reliable, high-quality data products that enable business insights and innovation.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable and robust data pipelines.
  • Build and enhance data ingestion frameworks across multiple source systems.
  • Ensure data quality, integrity, governance, and reliability across data platforms.
  • Deliver production-ready data products that support operational and analytical outcomes.
  • Perform complex data transformations to support reporting, analytics, and business requirements.
  • Develop and maintain semantic data models that enable effective data consumption.
  • Support feature engineering activities for AI and machine learning use cases.
  • Collaborate closely with business stakeholders, analysts, engineers, and architects.
  • Monitor, optimise, and support data solutions throughout the development lifecycle.

What you'll need to succeed

Essential Skills & Experience

  • Strong hands-on experience with Snowflake.
  • Advanced SQL development and optimisation skills.
  • Strong proficiency in Python for data engineering and analytics workloads.
  • Proven experience designing and developing enterprise-scale data pipelines.
  • Strong understanding of data ingestion, transformation, and data quality frameworks.
  • Experience delivering production-ready data products within complex environments.
  • Exposure to analytical modelling and feature engineering practices.
  • Ability to work across both data engineering and analytics-focused initiatives.
  • Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills.

Highly Desirable

  • Experience working with Snowflake CoWork.
  • Hands-on experience with Snowflake Cortex.
  • Experience developing or supporting AI/ML-enabled data products.
  • Exposure to AI-driven analytics and advanced data solutions.
  • Experience working within large enterprise or complex project environments.

What you'll get in return

  • Initial 9+ month contract with strong potential for extension.
  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge data, analytics, and AI initiatives.
  • Exposure to modern cloud-based technologies and enterprise-scale data platforms.
  • Collaborative and high-performing team environment.
  • Competitive daily rate.

What you need to do now

Share your updated CV at sourabh.kumar@hays.com.au

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.

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