Senior Data Engineer: Cloud Platform & AI Enablement
iSelect is hiring a Senior Data Engineer in Queensland to design and evolve a cloud data platform supporting BI, analytics, ML and Generative AI. Day to day the role leads data pipelines, DataOps, CI/CD automation and secure data access, delivering AI-ready datasets across AWS, Azure and GCP.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Central Plaza, Australia
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Data engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Senior data engineering experience
- Design and evolve a cloud-based data platform supporting BI, analytics, ML and Generative AI
- Lead data pipelines, governance and platform optimisation
- Collaborate with business and tech stakeholders
- Champion DataOps, automation, CI/CD and secure data access
- Deliver scalable data products and AI-ready datasets across AWS/Azure/GCP
Full description
Who We Are
iSelect and Compare the Market are trusted, well-known brands dedicated to helping millions of Australians compare and buy personal finance and household products such as insurance, energy, and loans. Together, we provide a seamless, customer-focused experience that makes it easier for Australians to find the right products to suit their needs.
What You’ll Be Doing
Reporting to the Data Engineering Manager, the Senior Data Engineer designs, builds, and evolves the organisation’s cloud data platform, delivering trusted, scalable, and secure data solutions that support business intelligence, advanced analytics, machine learning, and AI initiatives.
The role develops and optimises cloud-based data pipelines, products, and platform services, ensuring data is accessible, governed, and fit for reporting, analytics, predictive modelling, and Generative AI use cases.
Working closely with stakeholders across the business and technology teams, the Senior Data Engineer helps transform data into strategic assets that drive decision-making and innovation, while supporting AI-enabled solutions through strong data foundations and governance.
As a senior technical leader, the role provides expertise across data architecture, engineering standards, platform optimisation, automation, and DataOps/MLOps practices, contributing to the ongoing maturity of the organisation’s data and AI capabilities.
- Design, develop, and support scalable cloud-based data warehouse, lakehouse, and AI-enabled data platform solutions that support enterprise analytics, reporting and future ML/AI initiatives
- Build, optimise, and maintain batch, streaming, and near real-time data pipelines and data products to deliver trusted, high-quality, and governed data for business, analytics, and up-coming AI workloads
- Design, develop and deploy data workflows as an individual contributor with support of intelligent automation solutions which leverages AI agents, agentic workflows, LLMs, orchestration frameworks, and modern AI platform capabilities to improve operational efficiency and business outcomes
- Support advanced analytics and AI initiatives through the delivery of AI-ready datasets, vector search capabilities, RAG architectures, and secure, scalable data solutions that enable model development and operationalisation
- Implement and champion modern engineering practices including DataOps, SecOps, CI/CD, IaC automated testing, observability, platform automation, and responsible data access controls
- Ensure compliance with data governance, security, privacy, and quality standards, while collaborating with business and technology stakeholders to continuously improve platform capability, innovation, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency