Permanent full-time position
Head Office based in East Maitland (hybrid working available)
Data \& Artificial Intelligence team Our Opportunity We're looking for an experienced Data Engineer to join our Data \& Artificial Intelligence team and contribute to the design, build and delivery of enterprise data products within our Microsoft Fabric platform.
This role owns the full lifecycle of data products - from ingestion and transformation through to analytics enablement - working closely with business stakeholders, data peers and technology partners. You'll play a key role in building scalable, governed and high-quality data assets that support insight, reporting and advanced analytics across the organisation. What You'll Be Doing Design and build enterprise data products using modern architectures, including the Medallion framework
Develop and maintain scalable data pipelines and reusable transformation patterns using PySpark
Design and support semantic models that enable meaningful, value-driven analytics use cases
Contribute to data governance initiatives including metadata, lineage, tagging and data quality
Ensure data security, privacy and compliance standards are embedded in all solutions
Support CI/CD pipelines and environment promotion workflows
Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical designs
Participate in architecture reviews, roadmap planning and continuous improvement initiatives About You You're a technically strong Data Engineer who enjoys working end-to-end - combining sound engineering practices with a strong understanding of business value.5+ years' experience in data engineering, including cloud data platforms
Hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric, or similar platforms such as Databricks, Azure Synapse or Snowflake
Strong understanding of modern data architecture principles and ELT processing
Proven experience with Apache Spark / PySpark
Experience designing semantic models and analytics-ready datasets
Familiarity with data quality frameworks, metadata and lineage tools
Strong CI/CD, Git and automated deployment experience
Solid understanding of data security and privacy principles
Confident communicator with the ability to work closely with business stakeholders
Desirable
Exposure to domain-oriented data product thinking
Power BI, DAX or performance optimisation experience
Experience working in regulated or compliance-driven environments
Agile or Scrum delivery experience About Us Pacific Smiles Group is one of Australia's largest branded dental networks, operating nationally across Pacific Smiles Dental, nib Dental Care and HBF Dental. Our purpose is simple and powerful: to improve the oral health of all Australians to world's best.
Behind our growing network is a strong technology and data capability that enables better decisions, better experiences and better outcomes for our patients and teams. Why Join Pacific Smiles Group? Be part of a growing Data \& AI capability within a national healthcare organisation
Work on meaningful data products that directly support patient care and business outcomes
Modern Microsoft-based data platform with strong executive support
Collaborative, values-driven culture aligned to our SMILES values
Opportunity to influence architecture, standards and future capability
If you're ready to apply your data engineering expertise in a role with real impact, we'd love to hear from you.