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Senior / Lead / Principal Data Engineers


Company : Halcyon Knights


Location : Melbourne, Victoria


Created : 2025-05-03


Job Type : Full Time


Job Description

Senior / Lead / Principal Data Engineers Senior / Lead / Principal Data Engineers 1 month ago Be among the first 25 applicants Get AI-powered advice on this job and more exclusive features. Direct message the job poster from Halcyon Knights Proud to Be Partnering with Voconiq on building out their Engineering practice Senior / Lead / Principal Data Engineers Level: Senior / Lead / Principal Data Engineer Super excited to be retained by Voconiq to help build out their engineering team. This is one of those rare opportunities where the mission is genuinely meaningful, the tech is greenfield, and the culture is relaxed, down-to-earth, and built on mutual trust. Voconiq is a purpose-led organisation combining social science and advanced tech to give communities a stronger voice in decisions that affect them. Their platform transforms real-time community sentiment into insights that help industriesfrom mining and agriculture to public healthbuild trust and reduce social risk. Theyre now hiring founding engineers at Senior / Lead / Principal level to help bring this platform to life from scratch. The company is paying market-leading salaries to help attract the best engineering talent in the country. Why Youll Love It Here A truly mission-led business doing good with dataimpacting communities across Australia and beyond Greenfield build: nothing legacy here, just smart decisions, scalable design, and a clean slate Casual, collaborative cultureno egos, no micromanagement, just a smart team doing good work Flexibility to do your best workThe company is adopting a remote-first culture but have a Melbourne CBD office What Youll Be Doing Take the lead in designing and building Voconiqs cloud-native data and machine learning platform to power their growing SaaS product Build out robust, scalable data pipelines that serve real-time analytics and ML use cases across multiple industries Architect infrastructure that supports performance, flexibility, and scale from day one Deploy and manage production-ready ML models that help surface meaningful insights from community sentiment data Define and embed engineering best practices across the platformtesting, CI/CD, modular design, documentation, and more Work cross-functionally with data scientists, product leads, and social researchers to deliver high-impact outcomes What Were Looking For Deep experience building production-ready data platforms, pipelines, or ML infrastructure Strong Python skills and fluency in AWS infrastructure Hands-on experience with Databricks or Spark-based tooling in a real-world setting Ability to work autonomously and bring clarity and structure to an early-stage environment A builders mindset and a genuine interest in solving complex, meaningful problems Passion for social impact, ethical tech, and working in a team that values trust and transparency Curious? 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