Synechron

Data Engineer Data Engineer (Snowflake, DBT & AWS)

Synechron Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Technology, Information and Internet · 10,001+ employees

7 h ago
data-engineer Senior (5-10 yrs) Full-time Australia
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About the role

Design, develop, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using Snowflake, DBT, and AWS to support business analytics. Ensure data quality, security, and governance while optimizing data models and transformation workflows.

What they look for

Snowflake DBT AWS Python SQL ETL/ELT pipelines Data modeling Data warehousing Data quality Data governance CI/CD DevOps Cloud architecture Performance tuning API integration Data security

Requirements

Requires strong hands-on experience with Snowflake, DBT, AWS services, and advanced SQL development. Candidates must have a proven track record in building enterprise data platforms and implementing automated data transformation processes.

Benefits

Flexible workplace arrangements Mentoring Internal mobility Learning and development programs

Full description

We are seeking experienced Data Engineers to design, build, and support scalable cloud-based data solutions. The role will involve developing modern data pipelines, ETL/ELT frameworks, and data integration solutions using Snowflake, DBT, AWS, Python, and SQL.

The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience building and operating data platforms, transforming data from multiple sources, implementing robust data quality controls, and developing data models that support analytics and business reporting. Candidates should be self-starters who can work independently, contribute to solution design, and ensure security and governance standards are maintained.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using Snowflake, DBT, AWS, and Python.
  • Build and optimize data models, transformations, and orchestration workflows.
  • Develop frameworks to ingest data from databases, APIs, flat files, CSVs, and other enterprise data sources.
  • Create reusable and automated data transformation processes using DBT.
  • Design and implement Snowflake data warehouses, schemas, tables, views, and performance optimization strategies.
  • Develop data quality, validation, reconciliation, and monitoring solutions.
  • Implement secure data movement and integration patterns across cloud and on-premise systems.
  • Work closely with business stakeholders, architects, analysts, and downstream consumers to understand requirements and deliver scalable solutions.
  • Support deployment and release activities across development, test, and production environments.
  • Ensure compliance with security, governance, and PII data protection requirements.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve production data issues while maintaining high availability and reliability.

Mandatory Skills & Experience

Technical Skills

  • Strong experience with Snowflake Data Cloud.
  • Hands-on expertise in DBT (Data Build Tool) for transformations and data modeling.
  • Strong experience with AWS services including:
  • S3
  • Lambda
  • Glue
  • IAM
  • CloudWatch
  • Step Functions (preferred)
  • Advanced SQL development and query optimization skills.
  • Strong Python programming experience for data engineering and automation.
  • Experience building enterprise ETL/ELT pipelines.
  • Experience working with structured and semi-structured data (JSON, XML, CSV).
  • Knowledge of data governance, security, and access management.
  • Experience in CI/CD and DevOps practices for data platforms.

Snowflake Expertise

  • Snowflake architecture and administration.
  • Snowpipe, Streams & Tasks.
  • Data sharing and secure views.
  • Performance tuning and query optimization.
  • Role-based access controls (RBAC).
  • Data ingestion and transformation frameworks.

DBT Expertise

  • DBT models and macros.
  • Incremental loading strategies.
  • Data testing and validation.
  • Source-to-target mapping.
  • Documentation and lineage.
  • CI/CD integration with DBT.

Desirable Skills

  • Experience with Airflow, Prefect, or similar orchestration tools.
  • Knowledge of data lake and lakehouse architectures.
  • Experience with AI-assisted development tools such as:
  • Claude Code
  • GitHub Copilot
  • Amazon Q
  • Experience within Banking, Financial Services, or regulated environments.
  • Exposure to real-time and streaming data solutions.

S​YNECHRON’S DIVERSITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT  

Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture, and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger, successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programs, and more.

All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to the applicant’s gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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