Lead Data Engineer

Fat Zebra is an Australian technology company on a mission to uncomplicate commerce. We provide flexible, scalable payment processing solutions that power over 45,000 businesses across Australia—from growing startups to large enterprises.

We’re a dynamic team of payments pros, engineers, and product thinkers passionate about delivering frictionless, secure online payment experiences. If you're excited by data, technology, and making a real impact, you'll feel right at home here.

About The Position

Fat Zebra’s Lead Data Engineer will be part of building a world-class data team—and we’re looking for a curious and skilled Lead Data Engineer to help us lay the foundation in Sydney or Melbourne Offices. In this position, you’ll transform raw data into structured, actionable insights that drive better decisions, improve performance, and enable innovation across the organisation.

As one of the first dedicated Lead Data Engineers at Fat Zebra, you’ll play a key role in shaping our data infrastructure, processes, and analytics culture. Your work will directly support teams across product, finance, risk, and operations—fuelling smarter decisions and a stronger payments platform.

Position Responsibilities

• Data Engineering & Architecture
• Design and build robust, scalable data pipelines to transform raw inputs into usable datasets
• Consolidate data from internal systems and external APIs, ensuring data quality and integrity
• Develop and maintain clean, well-documented data models for analytics and reporting
• Support data governance by implementing standards around security, access, and data lineage
• Insights & Decision Support
• Perform exploratory data analysis to identify trends, risks, and opportunities
• Deliver dashboards, reports, and visualisations that make complex data easy to understand
• Work closely with stakeholders to translate business questions into data projects
• Apply statistical models or machine learning to support fraud detection, conversion optimisation, and customer experience improvements
• Continuously improve tools and processes to keep pace with business growth and technology trends &
• Stay on top of emerging data tools and recommend new solutions to increase performance and capability
  
  

Skills And Experience

In this position, we’ll count on you to deliver, be curious, and impact in several key areas:

• Business decisions are driven by your insights – trusted data partner across the business
• High-quality, structured data is easily accessible – You’ve built the pipelines and models to make this possible
• You help improve core metrics – help increase payment success rates, reduce fraud, or/and streamline operations
• You bring clarity to complexity – data approachable for both technical and non-technical audiences &
• You’ll proactively introduce better tools, frameworks, and/ or ways of working
  
  

Proven experience as a Lead Data Engineer, Data Engineer, or in a similar analytics/engineering position:

• Strong proficiency in Python or R, and expert-level SQL skills
• Hands-on experience with data modelling, ETL, and data warehousing (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift)
• Experience using BI tools like Looker, Power BI, or Tableau
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Excellent communication skills—you can explain complex findings clearly and concisely
• A detail-oriented, curious problem-solving mindset and a passion for continuous learning
• Experience working in fintech, payments, or a high-growth SaaS environment will be highly regarded
  
  

Why Join Us?

You’ll be part of a team that values ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement. We offer a supportive hybrid work environment, real autonomy, and the opportunity to make a lasting impact on a growing business.

Ready to Apply?

For a confidential discussion, contact Rose Filippone Talent Manager at Fat Zebra on

+61 409 236 061, or apply via the link below.