Lead Data Engineer

About Ubank

At Ubank, we’re on a mission to help the digital generation build real financial momentum. We’re more than a bank, we’re a smart, always-on money companion, bringing your finances into one seamless view with intuitive tools and real-time insights. From growing your savings to tracking spending and getting into your first home sooner, we make money simpler, smarter and more empowering.

The Opportunity

This is a true leadership-by-doing role, where you’ll balance delivering highly complex technical work with lifting the capability of those around you.

As a Lead Data Engineer within our Data & Analytics team, you’ll play a critical role in shaping how data is built, governed and leveraged across the business.

You’ll drive key technical initiatives, enable faster and smarter decision-making, and translate data into meaningful business outcomes.

You’ll lead across the full data lifecycle, from ingestion and modelling through to data marts and integrations while setting the standard for engineering excellence, governance, and best practice. Partnering closely with stakeholders across the bank, you’ll ensure data solutions are scalable, trusted and impactful.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build and optimise scalable data ingestion pipelines across a variety of source systems
• Lead data modelling efforts (3NF, Kimball, star schema), contributing as a hands-on individual contributor
• Drive end-to-end delivery of technical initiatives and act as a key point of contact for a team of engineers
• Define and embed engineering standards, patterns and reusable frameworks to support domain-led design
• Collaborate closely with business, analytics and technology stakeholders to deliver high-value, data-driven outcomes

What You’ll Bring

• Deep expertise in data modelling across 3NF and dimensional approaches (Kimball/star schema), with strong judgement on selecting the right approach
• Proven experience leading initiatives and guiding engineers to deliver meaningful business impact
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills across technical and non-technical audiences
• Hands-on experience with modern data tooling including DBT, Spark/PySpark
• Proficiency in SQL and Python
• Experience with Databricks (highly regarded)
• Exposure to cloud-native data ecosystems (e.g. AWS), orchestration tools (Airflow), ingestion tools (Fivetran), and relational databases (PostgreSQL or similar)
• Sharp problem-solving skills and a continuous improvement mindset

Why Ubank? Make an impact – Turn ideas into meaningful outcomes that genuinely improve how people manage their money.
Strong team culture – We thrive on collaboration, curiosity and support—because great ideas are a team sport.
Grow your career – With clear development pathways and real opportunities, your growth won’t just be supported—it’ll be accelerated.
Be yourself – We celebrate individuality and offer flexibility through our hybrid model, balancing autonomy and connection.
Build something that matters – Help shape the future of banking in a fast-moving, customer-first environment.

We acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work.

This Sydney-based role requires Australian or New Zealand citizenship or permanent residency.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds—our Talent team would love to connect with you.