Senior Data Engineer - Sydney - $210,000 package - Snowflake
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Sydney NSW
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Data engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Deep hands-on Snowflake, SQL, dbt and Python, with Snowpark a bonus
- Has used Cortex or other Snowflake AI functions on live work
- Some experience with LLMs, embeddings or vector search
- A strong data modeller, with Data Vault knowledge preferred
- Understands how data needs to be shaped for ML, including features
- Works with AI coding assistants and wants to help the team do the same
- Can talk about technical work in plain language
Full description
Salary: 210000
**Senior Data Engineer (AI) - Sydney - $210,000 package - Snowflake - AI
About the Company**
Our client is an established, listed financial services organisation headquartered in Sydney. Data and AI are a growing priority for the business, and they’re adding a senior engineer to the team as that investment ramps up.
About the Role
This is an individual contributor role for someone who still loves to build. Most of your time will go into the business’s Snowflake environment, extending it so AI runs alongside the data rather than outside it. You’ll work day to day with AI engineers and partner with teams who want to put AI to use.
Benefits
- $210k package - Base + Bonus + super
- Hybrid set-up
- Early hands-on access to Snowflake’s AI tooling as the platform grows
- Room to influence how the platform evolves
Duties / Key Responsibilities
- Develop data pipelines and products in Snowflake, adding AI enrichment as data lands
- Run LLM and vector search workloads inside the platform instead of moving data out
- Create data models that serve reporting and AI equally well, drawing on Data Vault and dimensional methods
- Set up the monitoring and alerts that keep AI and data workloads healthy
- Help AI engineers connect platform outputs to applications, and guide business teams from idea to working solution
Skills and Experience
- Deep hands-on Snowflake, SQL, dbt and Python, with Snowpark a bonus
- Has used Cortex or other Snowflake AI functions on live work
- Some experience with LLMs, embeddings or vector search
- A strong data modeller, with Data Vault knowledge preferred
- Understands how data needs to be shaped for ML, including features
- Works with AI coding assistants and wants to help the team do the same
- Can talk about technical work in plain language
About Allura Partners
Allura Partners was founded to support private equity firms by placing C-Suites to lead, transform, and scale portfolio companies. Today, in addition to our proven private equity specialisation, we’ve become a trusted partner for major ASX-listed and private enterprises in Australia, offering executive search, recruitment, and business transformation. Known for integrity, reliability, and results, our expertise spans Executive Search, Accounting & Finance, Transformation & Change, and Technology & Digital. We connect businesses and top-tier talent, exceeding expectations and driving lasting impact.