Lead Data Engineer (NV1 contract)
Lead Data Engineer for a US-based AI supply chain mapping company, building and customizing data pipelines for Australian clients. You will act as the technical lead in client meetings while remaining hands-on with Python, SQL, Databricks, and AWS/Azure, requiring an active NV1 clearance.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Canberra ACT
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Lead
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Category
- Data engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 8+ years in data engineering
- Current NV1 clearance
- Experience as the lead technical voice with clients
- Hands-on cloud engineering in AWS and/or Azure
- Experience in data governance and supporting security reviews
- Ability to set technical direction and mentor others
Nice to have
- Experience with IRAP or Essential Eight
- Familiarity with graph databases or entity resolution
- Experience with trade and supply chain data
Full description
The role
You'll be part of a small Australian team within a US based tech company that uses AI to map global supply chains. You'll build and customise data pipelines for Australian clients, bring their data into the platform, and keep those pipelines reliable, secure and cost effective. The best part about this role is the mix: you're the technical expert in client meetings, and you're still hands-on, working mainly with Python, SQL, Databricks and AWS, with some Azure.
About you
- 8+ years in data engineering, with end-to-end ownership of large-scale pipelines, from design through to running them in production
- A current NV1 clearance
- Experience as the lead technical voice with clients, ideally government, translating their requirements into architecture
- Hands-on cloud engineering in AWS and/or Azure, building solutions, not just administering them
- Security minded, with experience in data governance and supporting security reviews or accreditation (IRAP or Essential Eight a plus)
- You set technical direction, mentor others, and can clearly explain your own impact versus the team's
- Familiarity with graph databases, entity resolution, or trade and supply chain data a plus
The offer
- Contract role based in Canberra
- Join a high performing team working on a platform with global impact
- Flexible hours built around client needs, not a rigid 9 to 5
- Modern stack and tooling: Python, SQL, Databricks, OpenSearch, Postgres, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Datadog, AWS and Azure
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