Enterprise Data Platform Engineering & Data Ops Lead

To improve the usability and access to data across the organisation, and as part of our data transformation, we are scaling the use of enterprise environments and transitioning to a steady state of operations. We are seeking an Enterprise Data Platform Engineering and Ops professional to build and lead a small, high-performing team who will be responsible for operating and governing the enterprise data platform, and actively developing core data pipelines and API connectors to achieve our transformation goals.

This critical role bridges robust data engineering and platform administration with senior stakeholder engagement and strong business acumen. You will serve as a technical orchestrator, managing a platform designed to serve dozens of data teams across the business, shifting away from a localised team management approach to true enterprise enablement.

Key Responsibilities

• Platform Engineering & Development: Deliver strategic leadership and operational accountability for enterprise cloud data platforms and BI spaces. Establish secure connectors and ingestion pipelines from diverse business systems into enterprise environments, establishing patterns to continuously improve speed to insight.
• Operations & SLA Management: Oversee platform availability, incident response, disaster recovery checks, security patches, and Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Transition platform operations from reactive fixes to proactive monitoring, alerting, and self-healing processes.
• Spoke Enablement & Access Management: Configure and govern secure, multi-tenant private spaces to ensure data segregation while managing role-based access control (RBAC) to dashboards and platforms.
• Cost Optimisation: Act as the commercial custodian for data infrastructure, implementing FinOps frameworks to monitor, forecast, and optimise cloud compute and storage spend, including tracking overheads from emerging AI workloads.
• Team Leadership & Vendor Management: Oversee and manage current operational contractors, eventually building and leading a small, high-performing team while maintaining key vendor relationships.

About the location

This position can be based in Sydney or Melbourne.

About you

• Professional Engineering Background: Proven experience as a data engineer with a strong track record of managing cloud-based platform operations and maintenance (Cloud experience is mandatory).
• Technical Ecosystem Expertise: Deep hands-on experience with modern cloud data warehouses/lakehouses (e.g., Snowflake), ingestion/orchestration tools (e.g., Matillion), and enterprise BI tools (e.g., Power BI).
• Strategic Communication: Excellent communication skills with the business acumen to translate complex cloud operations and technical needs into clear financial and strategic narratives for business leaders.
• Pipeline & DevOps Familiarity: Strong alignment with CI/CD patterns, infrastructure-as-code, and languages like SQL, Python, or Apache Spark.

About our workforce

Snowy Hydro has a culture of decency and inclusion, with a commitment to the health and wellbeing of our people and a supportive environment to ensure that everyone - regardless of background - feels included and can succeed. At Snowy Hydro, we recognise that we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each individual brings, and we believe in providing an environment that allows that uniqueness to thrive.

Snowy Hydro is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for a role with Snowy Hydro and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an email with your request to the Snowy Hydro recruitment team at [email protected].