Data Engineer

Our Company

We exist to bring amazing people together to explore the art of possible.

Bailey Abbott are a progressive and dynamic IT Consultancy business working across both Public and Private sectors. People are at the core of everything we do. We’re all about nurturing and inspiring people – ours and our clients. We bring a positive attitude and mindset to everything we do. We confidently use our knowledge and skills to solve problems, finding a better and easier way forward.

We deliver transformational outcomes to take businesses further, fearlessly. Confidence and trust is fundamental to delivering superior outcomes and we take ownership and responsibility for our commitments.

Our People

Our specialist IT Consultants are creative, collaborative, and passionate. We’re strong advocates for change, challenging the status quo through new thinking, technology, and practices. Always exploring creative ways to simplify complexity.

As a Consultant with Bailey Abbott, you will have the opportunity to build your project portfolio by gaining exposure and experience working across different clients, industries, technologies, and methodologies, all while having the stability and security of a permanent position.

Our Career Opportunity

Bailey Abbott have an exciting opportunity for a Data Engineer to join our Data Intelligence capability. Our Data Intelligence specialists work within an active community of practice, enabling you to benefit from their years of collective experience and wisdom.

Working as a Data Engineer you will get the opportunity to:

Represent Bailey Abbott as a trusted consultant, applying your expertise to deliver high‑quality, value‑driven outcomes for clients

Design, build, and maintain modern data pipelines across cloud‑native and hybrid data ecosystems

Engineer scalable ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and automation solutions using contemporary data engineering frameworks and patterns

Apply modern data architecture principles such as lakehouse designs, layered data models, and domain‑driven data products

Build and optimise data models, semantic layers, and analytical datasets that support business intelligence, analytics, and operational use cases

Develop solutions for both batch and real‑time/streaming data workloads with a focus on reliability, data quality, and observability

Embed “governance by design” including lineage, cataloguing, access control, security, metadata‑driven approaches, and data quality frameworks

Write clean, maintainable, and scalable code across data engineering workloads using modern programming and scripting practices

Contribute to CI/CD, DataOps and automation practices including testing, deployment pipelines, and infrastructure‑as‑code

Collaborate with analysts, data scientists, architects and stakeholders to design data solutions aligned to business needs and strategic outcomes

Stay current with emerging data engineering approaches, architectures and best practices in the rapidly evolving data ecosystem

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience

Demonstrated experience as a Data Engineer or in a similar role

Experience working with modern cloud‑based data platforms such as Fabric, Azure, Snowflake, AWS, Databricks or equivalent ecosystems

Strong proficiency in SQL and experience with Python, Scala, etc for data engineering workloads

Experience designing and implementing batch and streaming pipelines within modern data architectures

Familiarity with governance, cataloguing and lineage practices using contemporary governance frameworks and tools

Understanding of distributed processing concepts and lakehouse or similar architectural patterns

Experience with CI/CD, version control, automated testing and DevOps/DataOps methodologies

Strong problem‑solving skills and high attention to detail

Excellent communication and collaboration skills in an Agile environment

Relevant cloud or platform certifications are highly desirable

Benefits

Paid Birthday Leave

Access to Employee Assistance Program

Flexible Working Options

Novated Leasing

Regular team gatherings including monthly team lunch

Professional development opportunities and continuous learning

Financial benefits through Discount Store

Our clients are diverse and so are we. We engage with great talent from all walks of life to bring their extensive and varied experience to help promote innovation. We encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds to further strengthen Bailey Abbott.

Bailey Abbott. Explore Possible.