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Principal Data Engineer - Contract
The Business Agility Group —Tullamarine VIC
- Urgently hiring
- Hybrid work
- Azure
- Master's degree
- SQL
2d
Trainee Technology Facilities Engineer - Contract
The Business Agility Group —Tullamarine VIC
- Part-time
- In-person
Staff Engineer
Edrolo —Melbourne VIC
- Full-time
- Master's degree
- APIs
Customer Data Engineer
Gridsight —Collingwood VIC
- Full-time
- Data analysis skills
- SQL
- AI
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Software Engineer (contract or perm)
NCS Australia —Melbourne VIC
- Full-time
- Azure
- SQL
- Parental leave
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Technology BD Director
Two Circles —Melbourne VIC
- CRM software
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11d
Kafka Architect
Tata Consultancy Services —Melbourne VIC
Senior/Staff Data Scientist (Optimisation)
Gridsight —Collingwood VIC
- $160,000 - $220,000 a year
- Full-time
- Data analysis skills
- Cleaning
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4d
Senior Data Engineer
Showtime Consulting —Melbourne VIC
- Full-time
- Azure
- DevOps
- SQL
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1d
Azure Fabric Data Engineer
AI Talent —Melbourne VIC
- $70,000 - $120,000 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Azure
- DevOps
- SQL
- Work from home
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Technical Program Manager, Heidi (6 month fixed term contract)
Heidi —Melbourne VIC
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Work from home
- Parental leave
11d
Dilapidation Coordinator
John Holland —Sunshine VIC
- Full-time
- Construction
- Parental leave
1d
QA Engineer
Slater and Gordon —Melbourne VIC
- Contract
- Hybrid work
- Azure
- Management
- Analysis skills
- Parental leave
5d
Graduate IT Engineer/ IT Application Developer
Granite Group —Melbourne VIC
- $34 an hour
- Full-time
- Education
- Analytics
- Paid training
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Structural (Materials) Engineer
Mott MacDonald —Docklands VIC
- Full-time
- Engineering
People & Culture Coordinator
Wallbridge Gilbert Aztec —Melbourne VIC
- Full-time
- Office
- Microsoft Office
- Computer skills
Senior/Staff Data Engineer
Gridsight —Collingwood VIC
- Full-time
- Azure
- AWS
- AI
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Operations Engineer
Downer Group —Parkville VIC
- Full-time
- Management
- Construction
- Communication skills
- Employee assistance program
3d
Product Design Engineer (Melbourne)
Ingenuity Design Group —Melbourne VIC
- Full-time
- CAD
- Assembly
- Education
- Work from home
10d
Senior Software Engineer C/C++ (12 month fixed-term contract)
Squiz —Melbourne VIC
- Contract
- Hybrid work
- Computer Science
- Master's degree
- AWS
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Principal Data Engineer - Contract

The Business Agility Group
Tullamarine VIC

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Job Details

Contract | Fixed term
2 days ago

Qualifications

CI/CD
Power BI
Data modelling
Azure
Law
MCP
Git
Master's degree
SQL
Unity
AI

Full Job Description

About the job Principal Data Engineer - Contract

Our client is seeking an experienced Principal Data Engineer to play a key leadership role within a high-performing Data & Analytics team. This is a hands-on senior individual contributor position where you'll help shape the organisation's data platform architecture, drive engineering standards, and influence the technical roadmap.

You'll act as the technical authority across the data lakehouse environment, ensuring high standards of data quality, performance, and reliability, while mentoring engineers and working closely with business stakeholders.

This is initially a 6 month contract, but highly likely to have additional extensions for the right candidate who can drive the implementation and strategy for the client's Data & Analytics solution. The role will be based in the Western Suburbs of Melbourne and an hybrid engagement (3 dpw in the office) is negotiable.

Please note, to apply applicants must have the following:

The requisite skills and experience defined below,
At least Australian Permanent Residence working rights,
At least 8+ years' experience as a Senior Data Engineer, with at least 4 years working in Australia.

Key Responsibilities:

Design and build scalable data pipelines using Azure Databricks, Delta Live Tables, and Azure Data Factory.
Architect and evolve medallion (bronze–silver–gold) data layers.
Govern and extend Unity Catalog (ownership, lineage, access, schema design).
Lead platform reliability, including SLA monitoring, optimisation, and cost governance.
Data Quality & Standards.
Define and enforce engineering standards (naming, testing, CI/CD, documentation).
Implement and uplift data quality frameworks and observability.
Drive continuous improvement across ingestion and transformation layers.
Stakeholder & Team Impact.
Mentor and guide data engineers; conduct code reviews and uplift capability.
Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
Represent Data & Analytics in architecture forums and vendor interactions.
Support onboarding and integration of external data partners.

Skills & Experience:

Essential -

8+ years' experience in data engineering within complex production environments.
Proven delivery of Data Lakehouse architectures (Delta Lake / Databricks preferred).
Strong expertise in SQL, Python, and PySpark.
Hands-on experience with Azure services (ADF, Event Hubs, ADLS Gen2, Synapse).
Solid data modelling experience.
Experience working in regulated or critical infrastructure environments.
Azure Databricks (Unity Catalog, Delta Live Tables, Workflows, MLflow).
Integration with Microsoft Fabric / Power BI semantic models.
CI/CD for data pipelines (Azure DevOps, Git workflows).
Infrastructure-as-code and environment management.
Data quality and observability tooling (e.g. Great Expectations, Monte Carlo).

Desirable -

API or MCP server development.
Experience in aviation, transport, or critical infrastructure.
Exposure to real-time operational or passenger data.
Knowledge of AI governance or LLM integration.
Relevant certifications (Azure Data Engineer, Databricks).

Notes:

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Your daily rate will depend on skills and experience.
Start date is ASAP.
Hybrid working engagement negotiable, but from Melbourne, VIC only.

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