Lead Data Engineer
Lead a small data engineering team at HealthShare NSW, embedding a new Snowflake + dbt + Git stack: own data onboarding and ingestion, code governance and CI/CD, pipeline monitoring and data quality, secure access to sensitive health data, and workload performance/cost optimisation.
- Compensation
- A$153.6K–A$183K / yr
- Location
- St Leonards, Australia
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Lead
- Employment
- Part time
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Data engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Proven experience leading data engineering in a large or complex organisation, with a track record in data ingestion and onboarding
- Hands-on production experience with Snowflake or dbt, and Git-based development
- Experience setting engineering standards and reviewing other developers' code
- Track record of coaching developers new to a technology or practice
- Sound understanding of role-based access, privacy and regulated data
- Experience working effectively with a platform provider or shared-service team
- Ability to explain technical decisions and trade-offs clearly to non-technical audiences
- Relevant tertiary qualifications or equivalent experience
Nice to have
- Experience with both Snowflake and dbt Core (or an equivalent modern cloud data stack)
- Snowflake or cloud data platform administration experience
- Experience embedding a new data stack or maturing an early-stage engineering practice
- Experience building a community of practice or scaling standards beyond your own team
- Experience in health or another sector handling sensitive personal information
- Relevant industry certifications, such as Snowflake, dbt or cloud platform certifications
Full description
Classification: Health Manager Level 4 Employment type: Permanent Full Time Hours per week: 38 Remuneration: Salary relative to experience and ranges from $ 153,559.00 to $ 182,954.00 per annum plus 12% superannuation Location: 1 Reserve Road, St Leonards Applications close: 11:59pm Tuesday 3 November 2026 HealthShare NSW is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment which reflects the community we serve. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, experiences and identities, and we encourage applicants from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, culturally and linguistically diverse groups, LGBTIQ+ communities, veterans, carers and people with disability.
About the opportunity
We moved to Snowflake a year ago and have just implemented dbt with Git. The foundations are in place. Now we need a hands‑on lead to embed them, lift the team's capability, and scale data engineering across HealthShare NSW. You'll work on NSW Health's Snowflake platform, provided by eHealth NSW, which also supplies key data sources and our ingestion tools. You'll get the most from the platform as it stands, and build the case for change where it counts.
- Lead data onboarding across a range of ingestion methods, delivering clean, documented raw data the team can rely on.
- Own code governance across Snowflake, dbt and Git: repository structure, modelling conventions, testing and deployment (CI/CD).
- Act as primary pull request approver, using review to raise quality and build capability.
- Guide the design of models and solutions built by data engineers and BI developers.
- Improve pipeline reliability through monitoring, alerting and automated data quality checks.
- Manage secure access to sensitive health and staff data, in line with privacy and cyber‑security requirements.
- Optimise workload performance and cost.
- Partner with eHealth NSW and other data providers on onboarding, upstream changes and platform improvements.
- Lead and develop a small team of data engineers, then grow a data engineering community of practice across HealthShare NSW.
- Represent HealthShare NSW in NSW Health data strategy forums on security and platform standards.
About you
- Proven experience leading data engineering in a large or complex organisation, with a strong track record in data ingestion and onboarding.
- Hands‑on production experience with Snowflake or dbt, and Git‑based development.
- Experience setting engineering standards and reviewing other developers' code.
- A track record of coaching developers who are new to a technology or practice.
- Sound understanding of role‑based access, privacy and regulated data.
- Experience working effectively with a platform provider or shared‑service team.