Lead Data Engineer

The Opportunity

Veolia ANZ is seeking an experienced Lead Data Engineer to join our Data Management Office. In this role you will spearhead innovation, design, and expertise within the data engineering and digital disciplines in a fast-growing organisation.

This is a permanent full-time role based in Pyrmont.

What's on offer

• Fantastic training and career advancement opportunities

• Supportive, collaborative team culture

• Mentor and develop data engineers while driving Veolia's data strategy
  

What you'll be responsible for

• Collaborate across teams to deliver complex data solutions and optimise workflows through automation
• Define data architecture, design data models, map data flows, and develop information marts for new data sources
• Develop ETL pipelines, data warehouses, and data lakes aligned with global and ANZ strategies
• Provide design/architecture guidance to project teams, including reviews of data models, pipeline designs, and implementation plans
• Mentor engineers and uplift team capability across Snowflake, Coalesce, and modern data engineering practice
• Collaborate with Data Governance, Security, and Infrastructure teams to align with enterprise controls (RBAC, PII handling, auditability)
  

What you'll need to be successful

• Tertiary qualifications in Computer Science or Data Science
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to translate between engineering, architecture, and business teams
• Min 10 years relevant experience
• Data warehousing, Data Vault modeling, CI/CD principles
• Solid Cloud & database proficiency (AWS ecosystem, Snowflake, SQL/NoSQL databases)
• Data integration & programming (Coalesce, , SQL, Python, Java/Scala)
• Knowledge of data lineage, metadata, data quality, reconciliation, and visualization tools (Tableau)
• Experience in a leadership or managerial role
  

Why Veolia?

Veolia values their employees and their health and well being. All of our employees are entitled to:

• Employee share plan

• Annual salary review with bonus

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

• Bupa health insurance discount

• Corporate Discounts

• Fitness Passport

• Volunteer Opportunities

• Salary sacrificing (i.e. super, novated leases)

We are a Circle Back Initiative Employer and commit to respond to every applicant.

At Veolia we value diversity, equity and inclusion, we are committed to providing working environments where everyone is included and treated fairly and with respect. We welcome applications from Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples, veterans, people with disabilities, all genders (including trans or gender diverse), mature age and early careers, members of the LGBTIQA+ community, and people from all cultural backgrounds. We also encourage our Veterans to visit our Veterans at Veolia webpage.

This role offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to the growth of our Solutions Energy business while expanding your engineering expertise. If you're a motivated professional with a passion for engineering and a commitment to excellence, we encourage you to apply.