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Principal Data Engineer

Perth CBD, Perth💼 Full-time🗓 2026-06-23 → 2026-08-10

Core

Lead the design, architecture, and delivery of modern Databricks-based lakehouse data platforms powering advanced analytics and AI.

Role type

Principal Data Engineer (Databricks)

Builds

Scalable data pipelines, cloud-native data platforms, and data products for analytics and generative AI.

Domain

Cloud data engineering, AI/ML enablement, lakehouse architecture

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Databricks, Spark, lakehouse architecture, scalable data pipelines, distributed data processing, data modeling, data governance, cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), technical strategy, mentorship

Preferred skills

Data orchestration, monitoring, data quality, observability, reusable data frameworks

Technologies

Databricks, Spark, Snowflake, AWS, Azure, GCP

Responsibilities

Define architecture and technical direction for modern data platforms; Design and deliver scalable data pipelines; Drive best practices for data engineering and governance; Collaborate with AI and product teams to shape platform strategy; Lead design of batch and streaming pipelines; Advise and mentor engineers; Guide integration of data platforms with ML and generative AI workloads; Champion reusable data frameworks and accelerators.

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategy & mentorship

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