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Lead Data Platform Engineer

Sydney , Australia
full-time

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Lead the design and implementation of a modern data platform on Google Cloud while enabling strategic data solutions and ensuring high performance and security.

Are you a seasoned data professional passionate about building cutting-edge cloud data platforms? Publift is seeking a Lead Data Platform Engineer to lead the design, build, and optimization of our modern data platform on Google Cloud. This is a unique opportunity to shape our data strategy and enable scalable analytics, AI, and enterprise data solutions.

 

About the role

As a Lead Data Platform Engineer, you will be a key leader in our Data team. You will be responsible for:

  • Architecting and Delivering: Designing and implementing an enterprise-scale cloud data platform using Google Cloud services and modern data architecture patterns (data lakes, lakehouses, modern data stack).
  • Data Pipeline Ownership: Taking full ownership of modern, scalable data pipelines and platforms, ensuring they are high-performing, reliable, secure, and aligned with enterprise standards.
  • Strategic Collaboration: Translating complex business needs into robust data solutions by collaborating closely with key stakeholders.
  • Best Practice Champion: Embedding best practices in data engineering, architecture, and governance across the organization.
  • AI and Data Enablement: Contributing to the design, build, and operation of our enterprise data platform, data source integrations, and data cleaning/governance/compliance tooling.
  • Team Productivity: Enabling decision-making through data and analytics capabilities, and enhancing team productivity with AI and data-enabled tools.

What are we looking for?

  • Strong software engineering background with expertise in developing and delivering enterprise-grade data solutions.
  • Deep expertise in cloud data platforms and pipelines, particularly with Google Cloud data services (BigQuery, GCS, Dataplex, Data Catalog, Pub/Sub, Dataflow).
  • Proficiency in Python, SQL, Javascript, with hands-on experience in designing and building secure, scalable, high-performance applications and data pipelines.
  • Practical experience with CI/CD practices (e.g., CircleCI, Jenkins) and Git for version control.
  • Strong understanding of modern data architectures, such as lakehouse design, and data specialized file formats (Parquet, Avro).
  • Experience with scripting and automation using tools like Jupyter notebooks for data exploration and transformation.
  • Sound knowledge of data governance, security, privacy, and compliance requirements.
  • Deep knowledge of data modeling, warehousing, partitioning/clustering strategies.
  • Experience with monitoring, reliability engineering, and observability for data systems.
  • Familiarity with data governance, lineage, and security policies (IAM, DLP, encryption).
  • Startup or scale-up experience (fast-moving, resource-constrained environments) is a plus.
  • Outstanding communication and problem-solving skills, with a collaborative leadership style.
  • Proven ability to build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships.

A few other things we want to let you know about...

  • Publift is an equal opportunity employer who prides themselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage everyone of all ages, genders and backgrounds to apply. If you’re a candidate with a disability or you’ll need some adjustments to be at your best, let us know how we can provide you with additional support.
  • We believe work satisfaction comes from two things: working in an unbelievably great team and solving customer problems that matter.  
  • Our flat organisation structure allows us to be nimble and innovative to drive both customer and personal growth.
  • We know how important keeping that balance between work/life is and have a range of flexible working options on offer, including part time. We are open to this conversation during our recruitment process if you want to know more just ask!
  • We are a proud Circle Back Initiative Employer which means we are committed to responding to every job applicant.
  • Successful candidates joining the publift are required to undergo a National Police Record check and must have full-time Australian working rights on an ongoing basis.
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