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About the Role

We're looking for a Lead Data Engineer to help design, build and support Challenger's evolving data platform. You'll play a key technical leadership role across data engineering and architecture, helping guide technical decisions, establish engineering standards and deliver scalable, well-governed data solutions. You'll work across data platforms, analytics and emerging AI initiatives, while remaining hands-on with delivery.

Responsibilities

Lead the design, build and support of data solutions across Challenger's modern data platform, including pipelines, data models, semantic layers and reporting foundations.
Establish and promote engineering standards across design, testing, deployment, monitoring and support.
Review technical work delivered by internal teams and external partners, ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable and fit for purpose.
Monitor and improve platform performance, reliability, observability and data quality.
Provide technical coaching and mentorship to data and analytics engineers through design reviews, code reviews and hands-on guidance.
Partner with senior stakeholders across Technology and the broader business to understand challenges and design practical data solutions.
Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions aligned with Challenger's data strategy.
Communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Support the continued maturity of Challenger's data governance capability.
Embed ownership, lineage, metadata, access controls and data quality practices into delivery outcomes.
Contribute to the ongoing development and adoption of the enterprise data catalogue.
Contribute to Challenger's evolving data, analytics and AI capabilities.
Provide practical input into how structured and unstructured data should be managed to support current and future AI use cases.
Stay abreast of emerging trends and opportunities across data engineering, analytics and AI.

Requirements

Experienced data engineering leader who combines strong technical capability with a practical, collaborative approach.
Comfortable shaping technical direction while remaining hands-on.
Enjoys solving complex data challenges, building scalable solutions and working with stakeholders across both technology and the business.
Leads through influence, values strong engineering practices and enjoys helping others develop their capability.
Significant experience across data engineering, data architecture or a related discipline, operating at a senior individual contributor or technical lead level.
Experience designing, building and supporting enterprise-scale data platforms and data products.
Strong capability across data modelling, pipeline design, cloud data warehousing and modern analytics platforms.
Experience working across the full software development lifecycle (SDLC), including solution design, testing, deployment, monitoring and production support.
Strong stakeholder engagement skills and the ability to translate business requirements into practical technical solutions.
Experience working with engineering teams, delivery partners and vendors within complex delivery environments.
Experience in financial services or another regulated environment.

Skills

Snowflake
Fivetran
Coalesce
Power BI
AI tooling
automation
unstructured data
practical AI use cases

Location

Sydney

Work Type

Hybrid Working
Permanent

Experience Level

Senior individual contributor
Technical lead

Benefits

Discretionary bonus scheme
Employee share plan
Eighteen weeks paid leave for all new parents
Flexibility on when, and how, parental leave is taken
Challenger Day – one extra day off every year
Subsidised on-site café
Fantastic central location a stone's throw from Martin Place Metro
Additional support leave (fertility treatment leave, gender affirmation leaves)
Extra superannuation contributions
Access to Fitness Passport

About the Company

Challenger Limited is an ASX-listed investment management firm managing $128.2 billion in assets (as at 31 December 2025).
Life with us is fast moving and always exciting.
Together we’re driving to deliver our vision to provide our customers with financial security for a better retirement.
We achieve this goal by providing a work environment where people from diverse backgrounds, with a range of skills and experiences can contribute and succeed.
Working at Challenger means being part of a connected team that enjoys what they do.
We’re small enough to move quickly, and big enough to make meaningful change.
We support your growth and development, offer flexibility, and value the unique contributions people bring.
Challenger's employee value proposition guides how we work: Grow and realise your potential, supporting each other, stronger together and making things happen.
Our culture encourages curiosity, considered thinking and meaningful contribution, with opportunities to build a broad and rewarding career.

Equal Opportunity

We are committed to fostering a safe, inclusive and respectful workplace where people of all backgrounds, identities and ways of thinking can thrive, and promoting flexible working to support work-life balance.
Challenger is proud to be a Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) Employer of Choice for Gender Equality, a Family Friendly Workplace and recognised as a Bronze Employer in the Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI), the national benchmark for LGBTQ+ workplace inclusion.