Lead Data Engineer

Halcyon Knights

📍 Australia, New South Wales, Australia

Full time Computer Occupations Posted February 20, 2026

Job Description

Lead Data Engineer
Sydney - Hybrid (2–3 days onsite)
$160k - $170k + Super 

A large organisation is looking for a Lead Data Engineer to help build and scale a modern data platform supporting analytics, reporting and data-driven initiatives.

This is a senior, hands-on role with ownership across data pipelines, modelling and engineering standards. You’ll work closely with architects, engineers and business stakeholders to deliver reliable, secure data solutions.

What you’ll be doing:

  • Design and deliver scalable data engineering solutions
  • Build and optimise data pipelines, warehouses and data marts
  • Implement data models alongside architecture
  • Lead engineering best practices across performance, quality and governance
  • Improve data quality, automation and reusability of frameworks
  • Contribute to advanced analytics and reporting use cases

Skills & experience

  • 10+ ye...