Senior Data Platform Engineer

Job description:

• Are you looking for a new challenge and want to see your work make a real impact?
• Gain skills with Australia's largest provider of government-funded hearing care
• Permanent, Hybrid working, Macquarie Park based

Want to improve the lives of Australians, no matter who they are?

Join us and build a career and future you'll be proud of.

It matters more at Hearing Australia

Hearing Australia is a trusted leader in our field. Working across the country, we exist to support and empower people through hearing health when and where they need it.

Your opportunity

As a Senior Data Platform Engineer, you'll be reporting to the Data Engineering Manager, and will be responsible for the design, build and maintaining the Azure modern data platform. Lift data quality and governance. Keep the platform reliable, secure, and cost‑aware. Work with Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Clinical teams on clean upstream data. Working side by side with people who go the extra mile, you'll also love the feeling of helping children and adults who need us.

Must haves

• Clear communication style. Able to explain complex data and architecture concepts to business stakeholders.
• Minimum eight years of hands-on data engineering experience delivering enterprise-grade data solutions.
• Architecture and operations mindset. Defines target patterns and reference designs, leads design reviews, sets up robust monitoring and alerting and manages incidents and problems effectively.
• Designs solutions with security, privacy and reliability built in from the start.
• Data governance expertise applied daily. Implements and maintains data quality checks, cataloguing, lineage tracking, glossary management and fine-grained access control using Microsoft Purview or equivalent tools.
• Proven experience with Dynamics 365 and Dataverse.
• Proven delivery of modern data warehouse platforms in production environments, including design, build, deployment and ongoing maintenance for performance and reliability.
• Deep Azure platform expertise across Azure Data Lake Storage (Gen2), Azure Databricks, Azure Synapse Analytics, Microsoft Fabric and Azure Data Factory, with supporting experience in Azure Functions, Logic Apps, Event Hubs or Stream Analytics.
• Strong data modelling experience. Designs and maintains star schemas, lakehouse layers and semantic models in Microsoft Fabric or Power BI.
• Expert-level SQL skills with proficiency in either Python or PySpark.
• CI/CD for data pipelines using Azure DevOps. Builds and maintains automated deployment pipelines with structured branching strategies, environment promotion, approval workflows, and release automation for data assets and infrastructure.

Nice to haves

• Advanced Microsoft Fabric capabilities and complex pipeline orchestration
• Strong FinOps awareness, including cost monitoring and optimisation.
• Experience supporting data science and AI initiatives, ML-ready datasets or Azure Machine Learning integration

Why Hearing Australia?

There's so much to love about a role with us. But our people say there's three things that set us and their careers apart. They're about:

• How we do what we do: Our vision is to deliver the best hearing solutions for anyone, anytime, anywhere. At Hearing Australia, you'll know you're making a contribution that really means something
• Who we work with: Here, you'll support and empower clients of all backgrounds. That's what drives our teams and what makes them so special
• Where we're going next: As our industry evolves, we're committed to learning and improving what we do and how we do it and building an organisation where everyone can thrive.

What does that mean for you?

As a Senior Data Platform Engineer you'll know that every day, your work is helping children and adults who need us. Just ask Sandeep, one of our IT professionals about why they choose to work with us:

"The work we do in helping people hear sound again and for the very first time is quite inspirational. Everything we do here is purpose-driven."

You'll also enjoy a range of benefits, including:

• Attractive employee benefits (salary sacrifice superannuation, HCF private health cover discount, well-being programs, salary packaging, discounts across an exciting range of retailers)
• Free, onsite staff parking
• Employee recognition awards programFlexible work arrangement opportunities to support work, personal and family commitments
• Flexible work arrangement opportunities to support work, personal and family commitments

Let's create the gold standard of hearing care

We will require the successful candidate to be willing to have a Police Check conducted (we pay), a current driver's licence and must have rights to work in Australia.

Hearing Australia is an Equal Opportunity Employer and embraces diversity, equity and inclusion. We are passionate about building a diverse and inclusive culture from within.

We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and applicants from different cultures who are bilingual to apply.

We are committed to facilitating a barrier-free recruitment process and work environment. If you require any accommodations, we welcome you to let us know so we can work with you to participate fully in our recruitment experience.