{"id":780515,"url":"https://alion.io/job/simplemachines-director-technology-data-platforms","title":"Director Technology - Data Platform Engineering","company":{"id":720743,"name":"Simplemachines","domain":"simplemachines.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/simplemachines-2","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workable","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":95,"open_postings":13,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":148,"computed_at":"2026-11-07T05:47:08Z"}},"role":"Leadership","role_family":"Leadership","seniority":"head","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Sydney, Australia"],"countries":["AU"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":128000,"max_usd":287000,"period":"year","method":"global_role_cell_scaled_by_country","sample_n":4188},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agentic Workflows","optional":false},{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"Apache Kafka","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"Databricks","optional":false},{"name":"dbt","optional":false},{"name":"GCP","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"Machine Learning","optional":false},{"name":"Snowflake","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-05-21T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-05-21","last_verified_at":"2026-11-07T18:37:02Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":170,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":0,"flags":["company_stale"],"days_open":170},"description":"We are looking for a senior data engineering leader to join Simple Machines in Sydney as part of our Global Data Practice leadership team.\nThis is a strategic and hands-on Engineering Leadership role focused on helping shape the future direction of our data platform capability across ANZ. The individual will play a key role in defining our propositions, strengthening our technical capability, and helping clients modernise their data ecosystems for an AI-native future.\nThe role requires someone equally comfortable operating at executive, architectural, commercial, and delivery levels. We are looking for a Engineering leader who understands where enterprise data platforms are heading over the next five years, not where they were five years ago.\nRequirements\nKey Responsibilities\nPart of the Global Data Practice leadership team\nHelping define and evolve Simple Machines’ data platform propositions, technical direction, and strategic positioning\nAdvising enterprise clients on modern data platform strategy, architecture, operating models, and AI readiness\nSupporting organisations as they evolve from traditional centralised data platforms toward AI-native, real-time, and data product-oriented operating models\nWorking closely with Engagement Managers and senior leadership across major strategic initiatives\nLeading architecture and technical direction for complex enterprise data platform and transformation programs\nActing as a senior technical counterpart across strategic client engagements and partner relationships\nPre-sales, proposal development, technical solution shaping, and executive stakeholder engagement\nBuilding trusted relationships with strategic technology partners and staying current with emerging platform capabilities and market direction\nSupporting recruitment, mentoring, capability uplift, and practice development across the broader engineering organisation\nLeading major client initiatives across data engineering, platform modernisation, AI enablement, and operational data systems\nContributing to thought leadership, market positioning, and growth initiatives across ANZ.\nMust-Haves\n10+ years’ experience acrosshands-on data engineering, data platforms, analytics engineering, or data architecture\nProven consultancy and enterprise client-facing experience\nStrong pre-sales, proposal development, and solution shaping capability\nDemonstrated experience architecting and delivering modern cloud-native data platforms at enterprise scale\nStrong experience developing solutions centred around data products and reusable enterprise data capabilities\nDeep understanding of data mesh principles, federated governance, and scalable domain-oriented data ownership models\nExperience designing platforms and architectures to support AI-native use cases, machine learning systems, agentic workflows, and intelligent software platforms\nStrong understanding of real-time and event-driven architectures, including streaming data systems and low-latency processing patterns\nExperience building platforms that support governed, discoverable, reusable, and operationalised data products across large organisations\n Familiarity with contemporary data stack technologies and modern engineering practices\nStrong understanding of platform architecture, distributed data systems, orchestration, governance, and scalable data product design\nExperience with technologies and ecosystems such as GCP, AWS, Azure, Databricks, Snowflake, Kafka, Spark, dbt, Kubernetes, Airflow, ML/AI enablement, or similar modern platform tooling\nStrong commercial acumen and ability to engage credibly with senior technical and business stakeholders\nExperience leading major enterprise initiatives and high-performing engineering teams\nComfortable operating in a fast-moving, high-performance consultancy environment\nIdeal Profile\nWe are looking for someone who combines strong technical depth with commercial and strategic capability. This is not purely a delivery management role, nor is it purely architectural. The ideal person will have a strong point of view on the future of enterprise data platforms, modern data operating models, and the convergence of data engineering and AI enablement.\nYou should be comfortable moving between executive conversations, whiteboarding architecture, shaping proposals, mentoring teams, and helping clients navigate complex transformation programs.\nAbout Simple Machines\nSimple Machines is a global, independent technology consultancy operating across Sydney, New Zealand, London, Poland and San Francisco. We design and build modern data platforms, intelligent systems, and bespoke software at the intersection of Data Engineering, Software Engineering and AI.\nWe help enterprises, scale-ups, and government turn complex, high-value data into products, platforms, and decisions that drive real impact.\nWe don't do generic. We build things that matter - We engineer data to life™.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4919,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Analytics & BI Consulting","Data Engineering & Migration Services"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-12T00:41:34Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":36,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":1,"p_active":0.821,"p_room":0.44,"age_days":170,"expected_fill_days":148,"reasons":["conf:0","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-11-07T05:47:08Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/simplemachines-director-technology-data-platforms","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/simplemachines-director-technology-data-platforms.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-07T20:10:50Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":31832,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-08T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":720743},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=720743"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fsimplemachines-director-technology-data-platforms"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fsimplemachines-director-technology-data-platforms"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fsimplemachines-director-technology-data-platforms"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/simplemachines-director-technology-data-platforms\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fsimplemachines-director-technology-data-platforms"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":780515}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"simplemachines.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":780515},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}