Data Engineer

• Permanent full-time position
  
• Head Office based in East Maitland (hybrid working available)
  
• Data & Artificial Intelligence team
  
  

We're looking for an experienced Data Engineer to join our Data & Artificial Intelligence team and contribute to the design, build and delivery of enterprise data products within our Microsoft Fabric platform.

This role owns the full lifecycle of data products - from ingestion and transformation through to analytics enablement - working closely with business stakeholders, data peers and technology partners. You'll play a key role in building scalable, governed and high-quality data assets that support insight, reporting and advanced analytics across the organisation.

• Design and build enterprise data products using modern architectures, including the Medallion framework
  
• Develop and maintain scalable data pipelines and reusable transformation patterns using PySpark
  
• Design and support semantic models that enable meaningful, value-driven analytics use cases
  
• Contribute to data governance initiatives including metadata, lineage, tagging and data quality
  
• Ensure data security, privacy and compliance standards are embedded in all solutions
  
• Support CI/CD pipelines and environment promotion workflows
  
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical designs
  
• Participate in architecture reviews, roadmap planning and continuous improvement initiatives
  
  

You're a technically strong Data Engineer who enjoys working end-to-end - combining sound engineering practices with a strong understanding of business value.

• 5+ years' experience in data engineering, including cloud data platforms
  
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric, or similar platforms such as Databricks, Azure Synapse or Snowflake
  
• Strong understanding of modern data architecture principles and ELT processing
  
• Proven experience with Apache Spark / PySpark
  
• Experience designing semantic models and analytics-ready datasets
  
• Familiarity with data quality frameworks, metadata and lineage tools
  
• Strong CI/CD, Git and automated deployment experience
  
• Solid understanding of data security and privacy principles
  
• Confident communicator with the ability to work closely with business stakeholders
  

Desirable:

• Exposure to domain-oriented data product thinking
  
• Power BI, DAX or performance optimisation experience
  
• Experience working in regulated or compliance-driven environments
  
• Agile or Scrum delivery experience
  
  

Pacific Smiles Group is one of Australia's largest branded dental networks, operating nationally across Pacific Smiles Dental, nib Dental Care and HBF Dental. Our purpose is simple and powerful: to improve the oral health of all Australians to world's best.

Behind our growing network is a strong technology and data capability that enables better decisions, better experiences and better outcomes for our patients and teams.

• Be part of a growing Data & AI capability within a national healthcare organisation
  
• Work on meaningful data products that directly support patient care and business outcomes
  
• Modern Microsoft-based data platform with strong executive support
  
• Collaborative, values-driven culture aligned to our SMILES values
  
• Opportunity to influence architecture, standards and future capability
  

If you're ready to apply your data engineering expertise in a role with real impact, we'd love to hear from you.