Data & Analytics Technical Lead

Data & Analytics Technical Lead | Brisbane CBD | Permanent Opportunity | Hybrid Working

Are you a senior data engineering leader who still enjoys being hands-on? We're seeking a Data & Analytics Technical Lead to drive the technical direction of a modern enterprise data platform, lead complex analytics initiatives, and mentor a high-performing team delivering business-critical data solutions. 

This is an opportunity to influence enterprise-wide data strategy while remaining close to architecture, engineering, analytics, and delivery outcomes. 

About the Opportunity

As the Data & Analytics Technical Lead, you'll provide senior technical leadership across a large-scale data and analytics ecosystem. You'll shape solution architecture, establish engineering standards and reusable patterns, and ensure data solutions are scalable, secure, reliable and aligned with enterprise architecture and governance requirements. 

Working closely with architecture, security, platform, integration and business stakeholders, you'll help mature enterprise data capabilities while enabling evidence-based decision-making across the organisation. 

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development and optimisation of scalable data pipelines, transformations and curated data products.
• Provide technical leadership across data engineering, analytics, semantic modelling and reporting solutions. 
• Act as the senior escalation point for complex data engineering, performance and data quality challenges.
• Design and optimise data models, semantic layers and transformation frameworks.
• Convert business requirements into robust, scalable technical solutions.
• Drive engineering best practices across source control, CI/CD, automated testing, deployment and release management.
• Shape future platform capabilities, technical roadmaps and architecture patterns.
• Collaborate across architecture, security, governance, integration and platform teams to ensure successful delivery outcomes.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to capability uplift across the broader team. 

What We're Looking For

You will bring a strong blend of technical leadership and hands-on expertise, including:

• 10+ years' experience delivering enterprise-scale data and analytics solutions.
• 5+ years in a technical leadership, lead engineer or senior specialist capacity.
• Deep experience with modern cloud-based data platforms and lakehouse/warehouse architectures.
• Advanced SQL and Python development skills.
• Strong expertise in data warehousing, dimensional modelling, semantic modelling and analytics engineering.
• Experience with Power BI or similar enterprise BI platforms.
• Proven experience with GitHub, GitHub Actions, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing and deployment practices.
• Strong understanding of data governance, privacy, lineage, metadata and enterprise security requirements.
• A track record of leading technical teams while remaining hands-on with solution delivery.

What's on Offer?

• Opportunity to influence enterprise-wide data and analytics strategy.
• Lead the evolution of a modern data platform.
• Work with contemporary cloud, engineering and analytics technologies.
• Collaborative and supportive culture focused on innovation and continuous improvement.
• Hybrid working environment with flexibility.
• Strong focus on professional development and leadership growth.

If you're passionate about building scalable data platforms, leading technical excellence and helping organisations unlock the value of their data, we'd love to hear from you.

Apply now or reach out to alan.kocjman@peoplebank.com.au - 07 3291 5401


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