Date:
2 Jul 2026

Location:
Sydney, NSW, AU

Department:
Enabling Areas

Description:
Job Requisition ID: 41429

Thrive in an innovative, collaborative people culture
We support flexibility and choice including flexible work arrangements and part-time options
Reimbursements for professional development and subsidised qualifications

We’re looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to help design, build, and evolve a secure, scalable, and modern data platform that powers enterprise analytics, reporting, and data products. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys combining platform engineering, cloud, automation, and modern AI-enabled ways of working to help data teams deliver faster, more reliably, and at scale.

What will your typical day look like?

You’ll play a key role in shaping a platform that enables Data Engineering, Analytics, and Data Science teams across the organisation. You’ll work on meaningful enterprise-scale problems, help define modern engineering practices, and contribute to a platform strategy that includes automation, observability, and AI-augmented engineering.

What you’ll do

Lead the design and continual enhancement of enterprise data platform capabilities across ingestion, transformation, analytics, and consumption layers
Develop and enhance reusable platform services that support self-service data engineering and analytics capabilities
Establish and maintain cloud-native platform patterns, environment standards, and Infrastructure as Code practices
Drive CI/CD, automation, and engineering workflows across data pipelines and platform components
Strengthen platform reliability through enhanced observability, monitoring, alerting, and operational excellence practices
Embed AI-enabled engineering practices to improve development velocity, troubleshooting effectiveness, testing quality, and platform optimisation
Collaborate closely with Data Engineering, Analytics, and Data Science teams to deliver secure, scalable, and sustainable platform outcomes
Partner with Infrastructure, DevOps, and administration teams to enable secure, scalable, and operationally resilient platform capabilities
Evaluate emerging technologies, lead proof-of-concepts, and enable adoption where strategically aligned

Enough about us, let’s talk about you.

Demonstrated experience in platform engineering, data engineering, or cloud engineering roles within enterprise-scale environments

Strong knowledge of modern data platforms and tooling, including Azure Databricks, Snowflake, Synapse, Fabric, and dbt
Strong knowledge of integration and orchestration tooling, including Azure Data Factory, Apache Airflow, Kafka, event-driven integration patterns, and API enablement platforms
Hands-on experience with platform engineering and automation tooling, including Terraform, Bicep, and related cloud enablement frameworks
Experience with CI/CD and engineering workflows using tools such as Azure DevOps, GitHub, and related delivery pipelines
Strong scripting and programming capability across Python, Bash, or PowerShell
Experience with observability, monitoring, and operational support across data and platform environments
Exposure to AI-enabled engineering tools, or a strong interest in applying AI to development, testing, troubleshooting, and platform operations
Strong problem-solving capability, systems thinking, and sound judgement across technical and business contexts
Well-developed stakeholder engagement, communication, and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence outcomes across cross-functional teams
A relevant tertiary qualification in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience

Why Deloitte?

At Deloitte, we focus our energy on interesting and impactful work. We’re always learning, innovating and setting the standard; making a positive difference to our clients and our society. We put coaching at the heart of what we do, helping our people grow their careers in any direction – whether it be up, moving into something new, or even moving across the world.

We embrace diversity, equity and inclusion. We have a diverse collection of people from different backgrounds, with different experiences, gender identities, abilities and thinking styles. What binds us together is a shared commitment to value everyone’s perspective and to cultivate inclusion; so that our work environment is a safe space we can all belong.

We support flexibility and choice. We encourage you to find the right balance between connecting in person with your clients and teams and meeting your own personal needs.

We help you live and work well. To support your personal and professional life, we offer a range of perks and benefits , including retail discounts, wellbeing leave, paid volunteering days, twelve flexible working options, market-leading parental leave and return to work support package.