- Location
- Sydney - Client Location, Australia
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Engineering
- Seniority
- Senior
- Source
- Workday
Description
We are seeking an experienced Data Engineer with strong expertise in Snowflake, dbt (Data Build Tool), and Data Modelling to join a high-performing data team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, building, and optimizing scalable data pipelines and cloud-based data warehouse solutions that support enterprise analytics, reporting, and business intelligence initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable data solutions using Snowflake as the enterprise data platform.
- Build and manage robust data transformation frameworks using dbt.
- Develop and optimize ELT/ETL pipelines for structured and semi-structured data.
- Create and maintain logical and physical data models supporting analytics and reporting requirements.
- Implement best practices for data quality, testing, governance, and documentation.
- Optimize Snowflake performance, cost management, and query tuning.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders, data analysts, architects, and engineers to gather requirements and deliver data solutions.
- Develop reusable dbt models, macros, tests, and documentation.
- Support data migration, integration, and modernization initiatives.
- Ensure adherence to security, compliance, and data governance standards.
Mandatory Skills
- Strong hands-on experience with Snowflake Data Cloud.
- Extensive experience with dbt (Data Build Tool) including model development, testing, snapshots, and incremental loading.
- Strong expertise in Data Modelling (Dimensional, Star Schema, Snowflake Schema, Data Vault).
- Experience building enterprise-grade ETL/ELT pipelines.
- Advanced SQL development and performance tuning.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Strong understanding of data warehousing principles and best practices.
- Experience with Git-based version control and CI/CD processes.
SYNECHRON’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.