Senior AI Engineer

_{10th November, 2026}

Senior AI Engineer (Data Engineering Background) - Sydney - $210,000 package - Snowflake - AI

About the Company
Our client is an established, listed financial services organisation headquartered in Sydney. Data and AI are a growing priority for the business, and they’re adding an AI engineer to the team as that investment ramps up.

About the Role
This is an individual contributor role for an AI engineer with a data engineering background who still loves to build. You’ll build AI systems on top of the business’s Snowflake platform, so AI runs alongside the data rather than outside it. You’ll work day to day with AI engineers and partner with teams wanting to use AI.

Benefits

• $210k package: base + bonus + super
• Hybrid set-up
• Early hands-on access to Snowflake’s AI tooling as the platform grows
• Room to influence how the platform evolves

Duties / Key Responsibilities

• Build and deploy AI solutions on Snowflake, including LLM and vector search workloads that run where the data lives
• Develop data pipelines and products, adding AI enrichment as data lands
• Design data models that serve reporting and AI equally well, drawing on Data Vault and dimensional methods
• Set up the monitoring and alerts that keep AI and data workloads healthy
• Connect platform outputs to applications and guide business teams from idea to working solution

Skills and Experience

• Strong data engineering foundations: deep hands-on Snowflake, SQL, dbt and Python, with Snowpark a bonus
• Has built with Cortex or other Snowflake AI functions on live work
• Hands-on experience with LLMs, embeddings and vector search
• A strong data modeller, with Data Vault knowledge preferred
• Understands how data needs to be shaped for ML, including features
• Works with AI coding assistants and wants to help the team do the same
• Can talk about technical work in plain language

About Allura Partners
Allura Partners was founded to support private equity firms by placing C-Suites to lead, transform, and scale portfolio companies. Today, in addition to our proven private equity specialisation, we’ve become a trusted partner for major ASX-listed and private enterprises in Australia, offering executive search, recruitment, and business transformation. Known for integrity, reliability, and results, our expertise spans Executive Search, Accounting & Finance, Transformation & Change, and Technology & Digital. We connect businesses and top-tier talent, exceeding expectations and driving lasting impact.

Senior AI Engineer (Data Engineering Background) - Sydney - $210,000 package - Snowflake - AI