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As our new Data Platform Lead, youll play a pivotal role in driving AFGs data platform to meet our data goals. Youll lead a team of data engineers and architects, driving the design and evolution of our data lake and warehouse. This is a hands-on role where strategy meets engineering delivery.Reporting into the Head of Analytics and Insights, youll collaborate across business, analytics, and technology teams to ensure our platform is secure, scalable, and aligned with enterprise data goals. The successful candidate will lead our Data Platform team, responsible for driving the transformation of our data warehouse into a centralised single source of truth, to best support consistent, accurate and trusted data and reporting across the business. From defining technical standards and governance policies to implementing robust ELT/ETL pipelines, your work will enable advanced analytics, machine learning, and operational insights.As part of your responsibilities, you will also participate in an on-call roster to monitor and support overnight critical data workflows incidents, ensuring platform reliability and timely issue resolution.About YouYoure a strategic thinker with deep technical expertise and a passion for building scalable data solutions. You thrive in collaborative environments and bring a strong leadership presence that inspires and empowers your team.Youre not just fluent in cloud-native data services and modern engineering toolsyoure also a clear communicator who can translate complex technical concepts into business value. Youre driven by impact, and youre ready to lead AFGs data platform into its next chapter.Experience & Qualifications required.Proven experience leading data engineering or platform teams, mentoring talent, and managing cross-functional stakeholders.Expertise in cloud-native data services (e.g. Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift) and tools like Dagster or Airflow.Strong understanding of data architecture, pipelines, ELT/ETL processes, and data warehousing. Experience with Informatica is highly preferred.Knowledge of data governance frameworks, including data quality, lineage, and security protocols.Tertiary qualifications in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related fields; advanced degrees and cloud certifications highly desirable.Exceptional communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills.Participate in an on-call roster to support overnight critical data workflow incidents.About AFGAustralian Finance Group (ASX:AFG) is one of Australia''s largest mortgage broking groups, founded back in 1994 and now employing 300+ staff across Australia. As a category leader, AFG has some 4,000 finance brokers in its network with access to over 10,000 financial products from more than 80 of Australia''s leading lenders.Through our broker network, AFG processes around one in 10 of all Australian residential mortgages and manages over $214 billion in residential and commercial finance.In addition to our broker network, AFG has a rapidly growing home loan business, and an expanding footprint in the provision of business lending solutions.At AFG our purpose is to create a fairer financial future for all. Our business prides itself its innovative, entrepreneurial and collaborative culture, which is underpinned by our values of integrity, accountability, customer-centric and team player (IACT). Our teams are intricately engaged across the business, and we encourage people with ideas and a willingness to learn to join us.AFG is committed to our culture. 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