Data Senior Engineer

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About Us Fortescue is both a proud West Australian company and a global green solutions business. We are recognised for our culture, innovation and industry‑leading development of infrastructure, mining assets and green energy initiatives.

Our Opportunity We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and optimise scalable data systems using modern cloud and data engineering practices. You will develop robust data architectures and pipelines that provide curated, analytics‑ready data for Data Analysts, Data Scientists, and business teams. This role requires close collaboration with the Analysts, Data Scientists, the Offshore team, and broader business stakeholders to deliver data‑driven solutions that enable actionable insights. As a senior member of the team, you will mentor offshore team members, providing guidance on best practices in technology, coding standards, and solution design. If you thrive in a fast‑paced environment and are passionate about unlocking the value of data, we’d love to hear from you.

Work Location Perth – Fortescue’s Perth office is located on the traditional lands of the Whadjuk Noongar people.

Roster Monday to Friday

Key Responsibilities

Architect, build and optimise scalable data pipelines and provisioning processes, ensuring timely, reliable and production‑ready data products

Develop secure, compliant, and governed data storage solutions across cloud platforms and enterprise systems

Create reusable code, libraries and tools to streamline data access, interpretation and transformation

Automate data preparation and integration tasks using metadata‑driven approaches and AI‑enabled techniques

Monitor schema changes, data usage patterns and implement smart sampling/caching to improve performance

Work extensively with AWS services (Lambda, Step Functions, S3, RDS, EC2) and manage secure, scalable Snowflake environments

Define and maintain Infrastructure‑as‑Code using AWS CDK, Terraform and automation frameworks

Implement CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, ensuring robust testing, secure deployments and engineering best practices

Collaborate with Data Analysts, Data Scientists, offshore teams and business stakeholders to deliver governed, high‑quality data solutions

Produce and maintain documentation on architecture, engineering standards, patterns and best practices

Provide technical leadership through code reviews, mentoring, coaching offshore teams and supporting data profiling, analysis and visualisation activities.

Qualifications and Experience

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience

10+ years’ experience in Data Engineering with strong capability in designing, building and optimising scalable data pipeline

Extensive experience with cloud platforms—particularly AWS—and delivering cloud‑based data engineering solutions

Strong proficiency in SQL for advanced querying, performance tuning and data modelling

Expert Python skills for data engineering, automation and pipeline development, with additional experience in JavaScript beneficial

Hands‑on experience with Snowflake, including administration, optimisation and integration into data pipelines

Strong understanding of data modelling best practices across cloud, hybrid and on‑prem environments

Experience with BI and analytics tools (Tableau, Power BI, Spotfire) and knowledge of visualisation best practices

Solid grounding in DevOps/DataOps practices—CI/CD, Git/GitHub, GitHub Actions, and IaC tools such as Terraform and AWS CDK

Strong communication, documentation and problem‑solving skills, with experience in Agile delivery frameworks and the ability to mentor and collaborate in cross‑functional teams.

Our Commitment Fortescue is deeply committed to providing a safe culture that builds respect, fosters inclusiveness, and values diversity. We celebrate individual strengths and team members from all backgrounds are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work. Our global workforce drives and promotes an inclusive culture, both within our organisation and throughout the communities we interact with across the world. Diverse backgrounds include First Nations Peoples, people with differing abilities, LGBTIQ+ community, gender, neurodiverse, cultural diversity, all age groups, and those with an intersectional or multiple diverse characteristics. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

Fortescue reserves the right to close applications early should a suitable pool of candidates be identified. Fortescue will never contact you to ask for payment of any kind, whether directly or through a third party.

For further information on how to apply please visit the Fortescue Hub.

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