The Role

ChiefEngineer

A$250–400k ~AI est. Australia FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Chief Engineer at The Role. Skills: Data platform engineering, Streaming data platforms, Cloud infrastructure, Machine learning. Lead design and build of enterprise data platform. Drive architecture and implementation of streaming data platforms”

What You'll Achieve.

Enable scalable, real-time capable enterprise data platform; Improve time-to-market for data products; Reduce duplication and increase reuse; Strengthen engineering quality, platform resilience; Increase operational efficiency; Support enterprise-wide data modernization

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Hands-on experience with AWS services, Experience with AWS & Snowflake services, Experience in building and scaling cloud infrastructure, Solid understanding of the ML lifecycle, Proficient scripting and automation skills, Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools, Proficiency with version control systems, Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools, Comfortable working across the full software lifecycle

Nice to Have

AWS CloudFormation experience

What You'll Do.

Lead design and build of enterprise data platform

Drive architecture and implementation of streaming data platforms

Provide technical leadership across data platform engineering

Champion modern engineering practices

Establish and role-model engineering culture

Collaborate with product

and maintain data and analytics infrastructure

Develop and support tools for data lifecycle

Work collaboratively to translate requirements

Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines

Develop and maintain platform documentation

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Product teams; Architecture teams; Domain teams; Data scientists; Data engineers; Stakeholders

Communication Scope

Communication skills

Full Job Description

**Specific work or activities you will perform:** Lead the design and build of the enterprise data platform with a strong product mindset, focusing on scalable, real-time and batch data capabilities. Drive the architecture and implementation of streaming data platforms (e.g., event-driven systems, real-time ingestion and processing) to enable low-latency data use cases across the enterprise. Provide technical leadership across data platform engineering, ensuring robust design patterns, platform reliability, and engineering excellence at scale. Champion modern engineering practices including CI/CD, platform automation, observability, and resilience. Establish and role-model the right engineering culture, hands-on leadership, ownership, high standards. Collaborate closely with product, architecture, and domain teams to evolve platform capabilities as reusable products that accelerate data and AI initiatives across the organisation. **Business outcome this work enables:** Enables a scalable, real-time capable enterprise data platform that supports mission-critical workloads, including streaming analytics, AI/ML use cases, and data-driven decisioning. Improves time-to-market for data products through a product-led platform approach, reducing duplication and increasing reuse. Strengthens engineering quality, platform resilience, and operational efficiency through standardised practices and strong technical leadership. Supports enterprise-wide data modernisation by providing a robust, governed, and high-performance platform foundation aligned to future growth. **About the Role:** As a Chief Engineer for Data and analytics, you’ll play a vital role in designing, building, and maintaining the infrastructure and tools that drive our analytics teams to deliver business value at scale. Your expertise in the AWS ecosystem will help automate and streamline the data and analytics platform , ensuring our platforms deliver quality, agility, and security for customer-facing products

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