We are excited to announce a permanent opportunity at Beca, where you will support innovative digital initiatives that drive data-driven decisions and actionable insights. Collaborating with our business and technology teams you will help create a shared understanding of needs and contribute to a broad range of analytical and innovative solutions. Your work will address real world, complex and unique problems across various business lines, clients, countries and technology platforms.
We are seeking a Lead Data Engineer with extensive experience delivering enterprise-scale data engineering solutions and a passion for innovation, quality and continuous improvement. In this role, you will provide technical leadership across data platforms, designing and delivering robust data provisioning, warehousing and integration solutions that enable data-driven decision making across the business.
You will partner with stakeholders to understand strategic business objectives and translate them into practical, scalable and secure data solutions. As a trusted technical leader, you will take ownership of complex data engineering initiatives, ensuring best practice approaches are applied across architecture, data modelling, platform optimisation, data quality and governance.
Key responsibilities include leading the design and implementation of data pipelines and ETL/ELT frameworks, maintaining and optimising cloud-based data platforms, implementing data security controls, and enabling the re-use of enterprise data assets. You will also collaborate closely with Data Scientists and AI Engineers to operationalise advanced analytics and machine learning solutions.
A strong background in modern data engineering practices is essential. Experience with Azure pipelines, Microsoft Fabric ( or similar data lake environments) and SQL Server is required, while exposure to Python, data governance and master data management will be highly regarded. Experience working with structured and unstructured data, geospatial datasets and IoT data is advantageous.
Beyond technical expertise, you will mentor and coach others, champion best practices, identify opportunities for improvement, and contribute to building data capability across the organisation.
You are an experienced data engineering professional who enjoys solving complex problems, turning data into actionable insights, and leading others to deliver great outcomes. Combining strong technical expertise with a collaborative mindset, you're comfortable working across stakeholders, data teams, and business leaders to deliver scalable, secure, and innovative data solutions.
You will thrive in this role if you enjoy:
You'll bring a passion for emerging technologies, strong communication skills, and a desire to shape the future of data and analytics within a growing organisation.
A career with Beca will provide you with:
Beca prides itself on supporting a diverse and inclusive culture – open to inputs from creative people of all genders, ethnicity, identity, thought and experiences.
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Creative people together transforming the world is our vision. It reflects our culture, our aspirations and our purpose - to make everyday better.
We are diverse enough to bring a wide range of perspectives, skills and disciplines to every client and every challenge. We're also a team that understands the power of working together to bring resourceful, smart solutions from our collective experience and insights. And this holds true whether we’re working on a small library for a local community or a multi-site expansion programme for a global food and beverage giant.
We have more than 4,000+ employees in 25 offices around the world. While our experience has been over 100 years in the making, it is the fresh talent we're nurturing, the innovative thinking we're developing and the connections that we're forging that get us most excited for the future.
