Senior Data Engineer (Snowflake, AWS) | 12-Month Day Rate Contract | Sydney
Core
Senior Data Engineer leading a large-scale data modernization program, migrating legacy on-premise warehouses to AWS and Snowflake.
Role type
Senior hands-on IC Data Engineer (Cloud Migration)
Builds
AWS data engineering capability, landing zones, ingestion frameworks, and migration tooling
Domain
Enterprise Data Engineering / Cloud Migration (AWS/Snowflake)
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
AWS data services, ELT/ETL pipeline design, legacy warehouse logic conversion, Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD, dimensional modelling, data validation and reconciliation, generative AI tooling
Preferred skills
Mentoring engineers, stakeholder engagement
Technologies
AWS (S3, Glue, Lambda, Step Functions, DMS, EMR, Kinesis, Athena, IAM, KMS, MWAA), Snowflake, Terraform, CloudFormation, GitHub Actions, dbt, Airflow, Python, SQL, Docker, Jenkins, Splunk, DataDog, CloudWatch
Responsibilities
Design and build AWS data engineering capability including landing zones and ingestion frameworks; Build scalable ELT/ETL pipelines into Snowflake; Convert legacy warehouse logic to version-controlled pipeline code using AI tooling; Lead data validation, reconciliation, and cutover; Automate deployment and mentor engineers across DevOps and DataOps practices
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC