Consultant- GCP Data Engineer

At Intelligen, we’re building something different. Over the past three years, we’ve evolved from a bold startup to a trusted partner for some of Australia’s most complex data transformations. We’ve helped organisations move from legacy to modern platforms, embedded governance into decision-making, and brought AI into the hands of the business - responsibly and at speed.

But we’re just getting started. As we move into our next phase of growth, we’re looking for consultants who don’t just want to deliver great solutions - but help shape the future of data and AI capability across Australia.

Responsibilities

We’re looking for a GCP Data Engineer, based in Sydney, who can design and deliver modern, scalable data solutions on Google Cloud Platform and across multi-cloud environments (GCP, AWS, Azure). This role has a strong focus on GCP-native data services, while remaining flexible across modern data stacks as required by our clients.

You’ll work directly with clients to understand their data challenges, architect and build high-quality pipelines, and support analytics, governance, and AI enablement initiatives. This role blends hands-on engineering with consulting – helping clients realise value at pace while contributing to Intelligen’s growing cloud data engineering capability.

This role is ideal for someone who loves solving complex engineering problems, thrives in cloud-native ecosystems, and wants to work in a high-performing team doing meaningful, future-shaping work.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and optimise scalable data platforms and pipelines on Google Cloud Platform
• Develop robust ingestion, transformation, and orchestration pipelines using BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Dataflow, Dataproc, Composer, and related GCP services
• Build high-quality data models to support analytics, reporting, and AI/ML use cases
• Implement modern data architecture patterns, including lakehouse and ELT/ETL approaches
• Collaborate closely with clients to translate business requirements into well-architected, actionable data solutions
• Support or implement dbt, CI/CD pipelines, Git-based workflows, and data engineering best practices
• Ensure strong data quality, governance, lineage, security, and performance optimisation within GCP environments
• Work alongside analytics, governance, and AI consultants to deliver cohesive, end-to-end solutions
• Contribute to reusable assets, accelerators, and internal frameworks that strengthen Intelligen’s GCP capability

Requirements:
• 4–6+ years’ experience in data engineering
• Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform, particularly BigQuery and cloud-native data services
• Experience designing and building production-grade data pipelines on GCP
• Strong SQL skills and experience building complex data transformations
• Familiarity with modern data stacks e.g. Composer, BigQuery, Databricks, Snowflake, dbt
• Experience working across the full data lifecycle: ingestion, transformation, modelling & consumption
• Knowledge of DevOps concepts, version control, and CI/CD in data environments
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and collaboration skills

Benefits:
We’re not just delivering AI and data projects.. we’re humanising them. That means we care deeply about the how, not just the what. We value curiosity, creativity, and a willingness to challenge the status quo. We look for people who are driven to build a business, get curious, and offer opinions and ideas.

You’ll join a team that’s smart, kind, and ambitious. You’ll have real influence - in your projects, your practice, and the broader business. And as we grow, so will you.

Here’s what that looks like:

Grow With Purpose

• Structured development pathways so you always know what you’re working toward.
• Paid certifications across all major cloud and data technologies — because mastery matters
• Weekly training, guilds and knowledge exchanges where practitioners share real project insights.

Support That Helps You Thrive

• A dedicated support lead to mentor, guide and help you navigate your career
• Regular 360° feedback loops, giving you clear direction and honest insight into your progress.

A Community You’ll Enjoy Being Part Of

• Innovation days where you can experiment, prototype and sharpen new skills.
• Team days, social catchups, many new community clubs…
• Opportunities to lead, influence and shape our growing practice as we expand across the region.

If you want to be part of a team that cares just as much about how we deliver as what we deliver; where curiosity is valued, ideas matter, and your impact is felt - drop us a message and start the conversation today...