Data Platform Manager in Sydney

Create positive change. Be a champion of Ecological Transformation. Join Veolia, a global leader with over 170 years of experience, operating in 40+ countries with 220,000 employees worldwide, including 6,500 staff across 300 sites in Australia and New Zealand. As part of our team, you'll contribute to crucial environmental solutions through our innovative Water, Waste, Energy and Industrial Services, helping protect the environment and address essential human needs for a sustainable future.

The Opportunity

As Veolia’s Data Platform Manager you will lead the cross-functional engineering and platform team responsible for designing, building, and operating Veolia ANZ’s enterprise data platform infrastructure, data warehouse, and data lake solution. You will manage four technical leads and an overall team of nine, with additional project resources to deliver high-performing, secure, and compliant data ingestion pipelines and curated master data to empower company-wide analytics and strategic value creation. You will manage vendor and system integrator relationships as well as ensure project data engineering resources follow our data architecture. This is a position for a senior and experienced technical manager with strategic management ability and capacity to lead people to effective outcomes. Veolia is a large organisation with constantly changing needs, so this role will suit your agility and ability to pivot as the business needs. To do this, you will need 10+ years of relevant experience, several years of team leadership experience and your knowledge of Snowflake and DataVault 2.0 will be essential.

What's on offer

• An established team of skilled and experienced technical experts
• A well-developed data platform and infrastructure ready for the next level
• A large global organisation with great opportunities

What you'll be responsible for

• Team Leadership & Culture: Build, mentor, and direct a cohesive, cross-functional team.
• Global & Local Collaboration: Partner with global and ANZ stakeholders to execute the Data Strategy and Roadmap. Formulate clear solutions to complex business problems and accept full ownership of strategic/tactical outcomes.
• Value Forecasting & FinOps: Partner with business leaders to forecast capital investment savings, implementing measurement frameworks to track value realization via the DMO.
• Cloud Platform Architecture: Accountable for the architecture, testing, implementation, and maintenance of Veolia’s cloud data warehouse and data lake.
• Data architecture, Ingestion & Data Pipelines: Plan and execute scalable ingestion/ELT pipelines.

What you'll need to be successful

• Tertiary qualifications in Information Technology or similar
• Extensive experience in data architecture, data analysis and data modeling (10+ years essential)
• Extensive experience in data quality maintenance, data security, data privacy, cloud data warehouse management and requirements analysis
• Strong leadership experience (3+ years) working with complex data, information and technology environments and successfully delivering customer-centric services, applications, infrastructure and data services

Technologies and Technical Skills

• Snowflake (essential)
• Coalesce Transform (ETL)
• Snowflake Cortex AI
• DevOps (CI/CD)

Why Veolia?

At Veolia, we support our people both at work and beyond. Enjoy a comprehensive range of benefits designed to help you thrive, including:

• Generous paid parental leave and a paid volunteer day
• Flexible and hybrid working arrangements
• Superannuation contributions on unpaid parental leave
• Fitness Passport and discounted health insurance
• Employee Assistance Program (Thrive) for you and your family
• Car allowances, novated leasing, and vehicle discounts
• Bonus and referral programs, plus employee share plan
• Ongoing professional development and clear career pathways

Veolia is committed to ensuring every employee returns home safely every day under our Always Safe Charter. Join a team that values your wellbeing, growth, and contribution—while making a real impact on the environment and our communities.

Fairness, Diversity & Inclusion

Veolia is committed to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace where everyone is valued and respected. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and are dedicated to providing a safe, supportive, and accessible environment. If you require adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can support you. We value your interest in our employment opportunities and commit to respond to all applications. Veolia is committed to conducting recruitment in a fair, ethical and transparent manner based solely on merit. Candidates with direct or indirect personal/professional ties to Veolia and/or any third party related to Veolia business (including but not limited to Veolia's suppliers, customers, partners and competitors) must disclose this information.