Senior Data Engineer

  • 13 May 2026
  • Data Engineering, Cloud Data Platforms & DevOps
  • Sydney
  • Contract or Temp
  • Flexi hybrid work
  • Long term contract
  • Work with a great brand
Senior Data Engineer  ( SQL / Teradata )
Sydney Hybrid
Initial 12 month contract
$750-825 a day inc super
  
Talent Insights is partnering with a large enterprise organisation currently seeking an experienced Senior Data Engineer to join a high-performing data team on an initial 12-month day rate contract.

This role will suit a strong hands-on engineer with deep SQL expertise, proven experience working within large-scale Teradata data warehouse environments, and exposure to broader data architecture and solution design responsibilities. The successful candidate will play a key role in designing, optimising and delivering scalable data solutions supporting critical business and analytics initiatives.
  
Key Responsibilities:
  • Design, develop and optimise complex SQL-based data pipelines and transformations
  • Work across large enterprise Teradata DWH environments
  • Develop and maintain scalable data models supporting analytics and reporting use cases
  • Contribute to data architecture decisions, including solution design, data flow and platform optimisation
  • Support the evolution of enterprise data architecture standards and best practices
  • Collaborate closely with business stakeholders, analysts, architects and engineering teams
  • Improve performance, data quality and reliability across existing data platforms
  • Contribute to broader cloud and data modernisation initiatives where applicable
  
Required Experience:
  • Extensive experience as a Data Engineer within enterprise-scale environments
  • Strong SQL development and performance tuning capabilities
  • Proven experience with Teradata data warehousing
  • Strong data modelling experience (dimensional and/or enterprise modelling)
  • Exposure to data architecture, solution design or platform design responsibilities
  • Experience building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines
  • Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills
  
Bonus Points For:
  • Exposure to AWS cloud technologies
  • Python development experience
  • Experience working across cloud migration or modern data platform initiatives
  • Exposure to orchestration, automation or transformation tooling
  
This is an excellent opportunity to join a recognised organisation working on large-scale data initiatives within a collaborative and mature engineering environment.
Please apply now using the link below or send your CV to Olivia@talentinsights.com.au
Please note that full work rights are required for this role
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