Solution Designer / Lead Data Engineer

At NCS Australia, we believe in doing technology services better. Our commitment to quality, focus on people, and willingness to challenge traditional thinking set us apart. Our team brings this belief to life by partnering with our clients and communities to make tomorrow together. We are committed to creating an environment that prioritises innovation, collaboration, and purposeful work. Our diverse team is empowered to make a meaningful impact with curiosity, creativity and resilience to shape better outcomes. Join us and accept the challenge of creating a better tomorrow. We are seeking an experienced Solution Designer / Lead Data Engineer to drive a high-priority enterprise transformation initiative: uplifting, modernizing, and scaling our enterprise Data Ingestion framework across cloud platforms . In this dual-capability role, you will combine high-level architectural design with deep data engineering expertise. While Google Cloud Platform (GCP) forms a key part of our ecosystem, this role requires a cloud-generic perspective—designing modular, cloud-agnostic data patterns that can ingest, process, and govern batch and streaming data from diverse sources across multi-cloud and hybrid environments. If you excel at bridging complex business data requirements with modern, resilient cloud architectures, this is an opportunity to shape an enterprise data strategy from the ground up. What You’ll Be Doing Framework Modernization: Architect and lead the end-to-end design of a modern, scalable, and automated enterprise Data Ingestion framework , transitioning legacy ingestion systems toward real-time, event-driven cloud workflows. Solution Architecture & Design: Author comprehensive Solution Design Documents (SDDs), architectural blueprints, data mapping specifications, and reusable ingestion patterns for both batch and streaming datasets. Pipeline Engineering Leadership: Provide technical leadership and hands-on guidance to engineering squads building high-throughput