Data Engineering Team Lead

We’re Hiring: Data Engineering Team Lead (AWS, Python & SQL a MUST) | 100% remote | Anywhere in Australia | $150K-$200K base + super permanent full time

Our client is seeking a Data Engineering Team Lead to build and own the data infrastructure that powers revenue measurement, forecasting, and growth across a rapidly scaling financial services organization.

This is a Team Lead role to manage 12-15 Data Engineers.

What We're Looking For

Required Experience

• Very strong communication skills - either as a Senior or a Lead Data Engineer
• 5-15+ years building production data pipelines and cloud data warehouse infrastructure.
• Expert-level Python for ETL/ELT development, API integrations, data transformations, and automation.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services including Glue, Step Functions, Lambda, S3, EventBridge, and IAM.
• Advanced SQL skills across complex joins, CTEs, window functions, and incremental loading patterns.
• Strong understanding of dimensional modeling, slowly changing dimensions, fact/dimension tables, and schema evolution.
• Experience operating production data platforms with monitoring, alerting, incident response, and operational ownership.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate across technical and business teams.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• Infrastructure-as-Code experience using CDK or CloudFormation.
• Streaming and near real-time data processing with Kinesis, Kafka, or DynamoDB Streams.
• Experience with dbt or similar analytics engineering frameworks.
• Financial services domain expertise, including AUM calculations, fee reconciliation, custodial data, and advisor compensation models.
• Data governance, compliance, and security experience including PII handling, access controls, audit logging, and regulatory retention requirements.
• Apache Airflow for complex workflow orchestration.
• Cost optimization experience across Redshift and S3-based data lake environments.

If you're excited about building scalable cloud data platforms that directly influence business growth and decision-making, we'd love to hear from you.

Interested?

Apply now or reach out directly for a confidential discussion. We’d love to hear from you!

Apply now or reach out for a confidential chat.

Only candidates currently based in Australia with full working rights will be considered.

Please email me your CV to ***email_hidden*** then give Charmaine Thum a call on 0439 320 538