Head of Data Platforms – Engineering
Pepperstone
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Melbourne • Australia
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About the role
- Lead and execute the enterprise data strategy and roadmap ensuring strong alignment to business goals.
- Evolve our data architecture from warehouse to lakehouse and beyond enabling scalable modern and future ready platforms.
- Drive the organisation’s shift toward data product ownership stewardship and data driven decision making.
- Build coach and inspire global teams across data engineering data platforms data systems and governance.
- Oversee and modernise data infrastructure tools and systems transitioning from legacy technologies to next generation solutions.
- Partner closely with senior leaders across the business translating complex data initiatives into clear compelling business narratives.
- Collaborate with AI business analytics and BI teams to strengthen foundational analytics and support enterprise wide insight generation.
- Ensure robust data governance regulatory compliance and alignment with our data protection obligations.
- Champion data literacy and foster a culture of curiosity engagement and continuous learning.
- Play an active leadership role in the broader technology organisation modelling Pepperstone’s values and leadership behaviours.
Requirements
- Bring 10+ years across data systems engineering or architecture roles and 5 plus years in senior technology leadership.
- Proven experience leading high performing globally distributed data teams.
- Deep expertise in modern data architecture and technologies such as Snowflake Redshift dbt Fivetran Airflow Iceberg and Alation.
- Hands on programming capability in languages such as Python Spark Scala or Golang for data engineering use cases.
- Strong background in streaming and event pipelines and integration patterns including Kafka Flink and APIs.
- Experience in regulated Financial Services or FinTech is highly desirable.
- Executive level communication and stakeholder influencing skills able to shape conversations negotiate priorities and build strong cases for investment.
- Strategic innovative and commercially minded leadership style.
- A passion for technology problem solving and enabling teams to move fast with confidence.
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Hard Skills & Tools
data architecturedata engineeringdata governanceprogramming in Pythonprogramming in Sparkprogramming in Scalaprogramming in Golangstreaming and event pipelinesintegration patternsdata product ownership
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationstakeholder influencingstrategic thinkinginnovationproblem solvingteam buildingcoachingcuriosityengagement