AI & Data Engineering Lead

Date: 2 Oct 2025

Location:

Brisbane, QLD, AU

Department: Technology & Transformation

Description:

Job Requisition ID: 39524

Engineering Lead AI & Data

World class training and development.

Truly flexible work.

Hands-on mentoring on emerging technologies.

What will your typical day look like?

Deloitte Data and AI is changing the way that businesses leverage cloud-native technology to solve the toughest Data, Machine Learning and AI challenges faced by our customers Join us as we continue to expand into a cloud-centric and AI driven future, working on some of the largest and most complex projects within AU.

About the team

Our Data & AI team comprises of over 500 specialist practitioners across Australia, each of whom are constantly curious and excited about combining their business acumen and technological expertise to create data-centric solutions that help solve complex problems and transform or reinvent our client's business.

Our Data & AI team work with public and private sector clients helping them to design and implement world leading solutions and capabilities. From solving air and ground transport network issues through our industry-first Optimal Reality digital twin solution, bringing automation capabilities to vaccine rollout programs, to helping our clients move to a sustainable world, we are the partner of choice for our clients and our alliance vendors.

Our technology relationships with market leading vendors such as Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Apple, Snowflake, Salesforce, and Informatica enable our practitioners to be at the forefront of new and emerging capabilities and to deliver our suite of services at scale. We are consistently recognised as leaders in Cloud, Data, Analytics and AI, including in the latest analyst reports.

Enough about us, let's talk about you.

We are looking for an Engineering Lead who brings the following capabilities:

A minimum of 5 years' experience architecting, designing and implementing data engineering, data management and/or AI solutions

A strong grasp of data & AI fundamentals, advanced SQL and database skills, with hands-on experience implementing data warehouses, data lakes or data integration solutions.

Experience leading discussions with stakeholders and guiding junior team members

Hands-on development experience in at least one of the major hyperscaler cloud platforms - Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, Databricks and Snowflake.

Hand-on development experience using at least one common data integration and processing technologies such as Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue, DBT, Matillion, Fivetran, Talend, Informatica

Strong software development fundamentals including version control, unit testing as well as continuous integration and deployment practices.

Experience designing and developing cloud Infrastructure as Code and incorporating into DevOps processes and software development lifecycle

Experience with Python, C#, Java or similar programming languages

Experience developing data visualisations solutions using Power BI, Tableau, Qlik, Looker etc.

Previous consulting or client-facing experience is highly regarded

Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills.

Comfort working in a flexible and dynamic environment.

Technical certifications will be highly regarded.

Why Deloitte?

At Deloitte, we focus our energy on interesting and impactful work. We're always learning, innovating and setting the standard; making a positive difference to our clients and our society. We put coaching at the heart of what we do, helping our people grow their careers in any direction – whether it be up, moving into something new, or even moving across the world.

We embrace diversity, equity and inclusion. We have a diverse collection of people from different backgrounds, with different experiences, gender identities, abilities and thinking styles. What binds us together is a shared commitment to value everyone's perspective and to cultivate inclusion; so that our work environment is a safe space we can all belong.

We prioritise flexibility and choice. At Deloitte, you get trust on Day 1. We know our people get their best work done when they're in control of where and how they work, designing their work week around their client, team and personal commitments.

We help you live and work well. To support your personal and professional life, we offer a range of perks and benefits, including retail discounts, wellbeing leave, paid volunteering days, twelve flexible working options, market-leading parental leave and return to work support package.