# Senior Data Engineer

Who is Shift? Shift provides business finance to small, established and corporate sized businesses in Australia, including Business Overdraft, Equipment Line, Asset Finance, Term Loan and Trade Account. Founded in 2014, Shift has funded more than 30,000 Australian businesses. At Shift, our unique approach to product innovation combined with our collaborative culture means you can build your career in a supportive environment. You’ll be joining a diverse team of over 300 people who are always looking to deliver better outcomes for Australian businesses. About the role: Want to put your stamp on a data platform? You’ll own our Azure Databricks platform, set its standards and roadmap, and lead the data side of a core lending system migration. You’ll be the senior engineer in a small team, with two junior engineers to develop and plenty of room to shape how data works at Shift. What you’ll do: Own the data platform roadmap and engineering standards, including CI/CD, separate environments, automated testing, monitoring and access governance through Unity Catalog Design and lead the build of robust, scalable ELT pipelines on Azure Databricks Lead the data workstream for our core lend

- **Id**: 3993494
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/shift-senior-data-engineer>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Sydney, Australia
- **Countries**: AU
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T21:57:26Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T00:23:37Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3531
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Hybrid work, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Business & SME Lending, Factoring & Trade Finance

## Company

- **Id**: 174878
- **Name**: Shift
- **Domain**: shift.com.au
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/shift-3>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Technologies

- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Azure DevOps** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Databricks** — Optional: no
- **Delta Lake** — Optional: no
- **Dimensional Modeling** — Optional: no
- **ETL/ELT** — Optional: no
- **GitHub** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Spark** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Australia** — Iso: AU; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T00:23:37Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 38
- **Reasons**: conf:5, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T05:30:00Z

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