Senior AI & Data Platform Engineer

Job Requisition ID: 41566 

Senior AI & Data Platform Engineer

Deloitte’s AI & Data team is transforming how businesses leverage cloud-native technologies to solve complex challenges in data, machine learning, and AI.

We’re helping client design and implement their Agentic strategy and drive significant productivity changes and create business value. A key tenant of our strategy is to work closely with leading technology partners to enable clients to achieve their AI ambition.

Deloitte and Databricks have a market leading, global alliance and our work to support clients is growing rapidly. We are seeking to expand our team with experienced Databricks Engineers who can design and deploy cloud data platforms

How this role brings our table-stakes behaviours to life

Five behaviours are now table stakes across the practice – Be Curious, Reuse and Improve, Validate and Elevate, Reinvent Delivery, and Show, Don’t Tell – mapping to our four performance pillars (Serving Clients; Leading Self and Others; Investing in the Future; Managing the Business).

As a Value & Adoption Lead you carry Serving Clients and Show, Don’t Tell most visibly: you reframe client conversations around demonstrable AI-enabled value and make sure every proposal carries a bold, outcome-changing idea.

You are measured on the value you create – client outcomes, gross margin and team sales – and you set the standard for how value is articulated, sold and realised.

About the team

Our AI & Data team comprises more than 500 specialist practitioners across Australia, each of whom are constantly curious and excited about combining their business acumen and technological expertise to create AI and data-centric solutions that help solve complex problems and transform or reinvent our clients’ business.

Our AI & Data team work with public and private sector clients, helping them design and implement world-leading solutions and capabilities. From solving air and ground transport network issues through our industry-first Optimal Reality digital twin solution, to bringing automation capabilities to vaccine rollout programs and helping our clients move to a sustainable world, we are the partner of choice for our clients and our alliance vendors.

Our technology relationships with market-leading vendors such as Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Databricks, Snowflake and Informatica enable our practitioners to be at the forefront of new and emerging capabilities and to deliver our suite of services at scale. We are consistently recognised as leaders in Cloud, Data, Analytics and AI, including in the latest analyst reports.

The AI Pioneers, Forward Deployed Engineers and Value & Adoption Leads are the new virtual teams that sit at the leading edge of this practice, ensuring our work stays AI-powered, our clients see real value, and our practitioners stay AI-fluent.

Enough about us, let’s talk about you.

 We are looking for Databricks Platform Engineers to bring the following capabilities:

• 8+ years' experience in cloud, platform engineering, data engineering, or DevOps environments, including 4+ years of significant Databricks experience.
• Deep hands-on experience with designing and deploying cloud data platforms (inc Securing review forum approvals).
• Strong experience across several of the following:

• modern data-lake compute and storage topology.

• • Unity Catalog.
  • Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.

• Hands-on development experience in AWS and/or Microsoft Azure.
• SQL and database skills.

• • Networking and VPC/VNet configuration.
  • Security, access management, and governance.
  • CI/CD and platform automation.
  • Platform monitoring, performance optimisation, and operational support.
• Strong grasp of data fundamentals, preferably with experience with databases, data. warehouses, data lakes or other storage solutions.
• Experience enabling AI, analytics, and data workloads on modern cloud platforms.
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills
• Proven ability to lead and mentor data engineering teams across large-scale delivery programs.

• Previous consulting or client-facing experience will be highly regarded.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and consulting skills, with the ability to work directly with senior stakeholders.
• Experience supporting solution shaping, pre-sales, and practice growth activities.
• Ability to operate effectively in dynamic, fast-paced, and ambiguous environments, with a strong focus on outcomes.
• Databricks and cloud certifications is a must.

Why Deloitte?

At Deloitte, we focus our energy on interesting and impactful work. We’re always learning, innovating and setting the standard; making a positive difference to our clients and our society. We put coaching at the heart of what we do, helping our people grow their careers in any direction – whether it be up, moving into something new, or even moving across the world.   

 We embrace diversity, equity and inclusion. We have a diverse collection of people from different backgrounds, with different experiences, gender identities, abilities and thinking styles. What binds us together is a shared commitment to value everyone’s perspective and to cultivate inclusion; so that our work environment is a safe space we can all belong.  

We value in-person connection with our clients and our colleagues. We offer several ways for you to work flexibly so that you can serve your clients, stay connected with your team, and manage your personal priorities.

We help you live and work well. To support your personal and professional life, we offer a range of perks and benefits, including retail discounts, wellbeing leave, paid volunteering days, twelve flexible working options, market-leading parental leave and return to work support package.  

Next Steps 

Sound like the sort of role for you? Apply now, we’d love to hear from you! 

By applying for this job, you’ll be assessed against the Deloitte Talent Standards. We’ve designed these standards so that you can grow in your career, and we can provide our clients with a consistent and exceptional Deloitte employee experience globally. The preferred candidate will be subject to background screening by Deloitte or by their external third-party provider.