About us
HammondCare provides expert aged care, home care, dementia care and palliative care for older people, regardless of circumstances, beliefs, background or financial situation. We are led by our not-for-profit, Christian foundations and backed by research and clinical expertise.
When it comes to our people – those we serve and those who serve – we are committed to inclusion across race, culture, ethnicity, gender, sex, sexuality, religion and ability. In our innovative residences, our hospitals, or in client homes, we aim to set the global standard of relationship-based care for older people with complex needs.
We’ve been caring for people for over 90 years – so, if you love to care, join us, and make a career move that matters.
It's not just care, it's HammondCare.
What we can offer you
We care about your wellbeing at HammondCare and as a result offer a wide range of health and lifestyle benefits including:
NFP salary packaging ($15,900 tax free) plus meals and entertainment benefit (up to $2,650 tax free)
Additional leave purchase options and 14 weeks paid parental leave
Flexible working options, including hybrid arrangements
Discounts on everyday products and services
Discounted healthcare memberships - access to network of fitness centres and pools for employees and families
Free access to independent counselling support for employees and families
Health & Wellbeing programmes
Reward & Recognition programmes
Referral bonuses
Career and professional development opportunities
About the Opportunity
The Senior Data Engineer is responsible for designing, developing and optimising HammondCare's enterprise data platform, data pipelines and integration solutions. The role provides senior technical leadership across data engineering initiatives and acts as a trusted advisor to the Data Engineering Lead on architecture, engineering standards, platform performance and delivery practices.
Working across multiple source systems, cloud platforms and business domains, the Senior Data Engineer ensures that data solutions are scalable, secure, reliable and aligned to HammondCare's data, analytics and AI strategy. The role combines hands-on engineering expertise with technical leadership, mentoring and stakeholder engagement.
Key Focus Areas
Technical Leadership & Engineering Excellence : Provide technical leadership across the Data Engineering function by establishing engineering standards, guiding solution design and uplifting engineering capability.
People Leadership & Team Development: Provide day-to-day leadership to assigned team members, setting clear expectations, supporting performance and development, and fostering an accountable, collaborative and inclusive team culture.
This is permanent full-time position based at St Leonards with hybrid working opportunities.
How you will make an impact
Lead the design and delivery of complex, scalable data engineering and integration solutions.
Shape and evolve HammondCare’s data platform, lakehouse and integration ecosystem, aligned with enterprise architecture principles.
Define and embed engineering and integration standards, patterns and best practices across APIs, ETL/ELT, event-driven and real-time integration.
Lead and support data and integration team members, setting clear objectives and priorities, allocating work, coaching team members and building capability across the function.
Manage performance fairly and consistently, recognising strong contribution and proactively addressing performance, conduct or capability concerns in partnership with the Data Engineering Lead and People Services.
Provide technical oversight through solution, code and data model reviews, ensuring solutions are secure, maintainable and aligned with platform standards.
Work closely with business and technology teams to understand the impact of system and business change across data, integrations and reporting.
Strengthen platform performance, scalability and reliability through automation, monitoring,…