I'm Marcelo Eichelberger, a Senior Data Engineer based in Brisbane with 15+ years of experience designing cloud data platforms, building scalable pipelines, and automating workflows. I help organizations optimize data ecosystems, improve data quality, and unlock real-time insights that drive business growth. I've led data engineering initiatives, defined best practices, and mentored engineers across fintech, energy, and retail sectors to raise our team's delivery standards. I collaborate cross-functionally to design robust data models, implement observability, and automate end-to-end data movement. My toolkit includes Snowflake, AWS, Airflow, Temporal, dbt, Python, and Terraform to deliver reliable, maintainable data solutions. I'm passionate about empowering teams through mentorship and clear data governance, enabling data-driven decisions and scalable operations.

Marcelo Eichelberger

I'm Marcelo Eichelberger, a Senior Data Engineer based in Brisbane with 15+ years of experience designing cloud data platforms, building scalable pipelines, and automating workflows. I help organizations optimize data ecosystems, improve data quality, and unlock real-time insights that drive business growth. I've led data engineering initiatives, defined best practices, and mentored engineers across fintech, energy, and retail sectors to raise our team's delivery standards. I collaborate cross-functionally to design robust data models, implement observability, and automate end-to-end data movement. My toolkit includes Snowflake, AWS, Airflow, Temporal, dbt, Python, and Terraform to deliver reliable, maintainable data solutions. I'm passionate about empowering teams through mentorship and clear data governance, enabling data-driven decisions and scalable operations.

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I’m Marcelo Eichelberger, a Senior Data Engineer based in Brisbane with 15+ years of experience designing cloud data platforms, building scalable pipelines, and automating workflows. I help organizations optimize data ecosystems, improve data quality, and unlock real-time insights that drive business growth. I’ve led data engineering initiatives, defined best practices, and mentored engineers across fintech, energy, and retail sectors to raise our team’s delivery standards.

I collaborate cross-functionally to design robust data models, implement observability, and automate end-to-end data movement.

My toolkit includes Snowflake, AWS, Airflow, Temporal, dbt, Python, and Terraform to deliver reliable, maintainable data solutions. I’m passionate about empowering teams through mentorship and clear data governance, enabling data-driven decisions and scalable operations.

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Experience Level

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Language

English
Fluent
Portuguese
Fluent
Spanish; Castilian
Fluent

Work Experience

Senior Data Engineer at Swyftx
July 1, 2015 - Present
Build, optimize, and maintain data warehouses and data pipelines. Define and promote data engineering best practices across the team and organisation. Mentor peers and junior engineers. Delivered provider standardization initial load in under a week, handling a massive dataset under tight deadlines. Led technical validation and remediation for reconciliation project, establishing robust monitoring and ensuring data accuracy.
Data Engineer at Picklebet
May 1, 2024 - July 1, 2024
Develop, optimize, and maintain data warehouse and data pipelines. Design and implement generic cloud capabilities to support data ecosystem. Ensure data quality, reliability with efficient high quality code. Implemented data observability tool (Elementary Data) which improved the stability and reliability of the data pipeline, and visibility of the data quality. Reengineered data pipelines using Snowflake’s Dynamic Tables. Implemented orchestration tool Temporal to handle diverse workflows, including incident response, pipeline deployments, and data movement. Designed and deployed AWS infrastructure (networking, ECS resources) using Terraform for scalable infrastructure-as-code management.
Senior Data Engineer at Origin Energy
July 1, 2013 - May 1, 2024
Design, maintain, and enhance data model for a renewable energy simulation and quoting application. Direct data engineering by creating and maintaining data pipelines for reference data required by application. Assure data quality, integrity and performance. Engineered data pipelines (SQL on AWS Aurora PostgreSQL and RedShift) using internal orchestration framework and tooling, improving reliability and efficiency of reference data ingestion. Designed data model for cost engine calculation module enabling flexible, accurate cost calculations for the quoting system.
Chapter Member - Data Engineering at The Warehouse Group
February 1, 2022 - March 1, 2023
Transform and load data that can be easily analysed. Organize data flow and its collection for functional teams. Investigate, extract, wrangle, cleanse and link data sets ready for use. Assure excellent quality in process, service and development. Reengineered data pipelines as part of Snowflake migration project (SQL Server to Snowflake using dbt). Investigated and documented a step-by-step process of new tooling required for Data Engineering & BI Visualisation teams, enabling faster onboarding. Developed Python data pipeline and its orchestration for Logistics Team that allowed analysis and optimisation of freight costs enabling analysis and optimization of $20 million cost.
Data Automation Engineer at Bank of New Zealand
January 1, 2020 - February 1, 2022
Investigate and validate new data feeds, curate data, and ingest data from various sources. Secure automation opportunities for data pipelines and fix bugs. Exceed client and end user expectations. Developed data pipeline (PySpark orchestrated with Airflow) and formulated report for Assurance Team that improved data selection and efficiency of QA process. Identified major data issue as part of remediation response for regulatory agency. Created a script to identify all data points used by reports that significantly improved the data lineage prioritisation.
Data Engineer/Cloud Engineer at Orion Health
January 1, 2016 - January 1, 2020
Oversee data ingestion of different sources, develop solutions, troubleshoot issues, and setup data replication. Monitor site recovery, migrate systems to the cloud environment, utilised runbooks to automate tasks, and coordinate maintenance of applications. Directed data ingestion of different sources, mentored team on database issues. Setup DR solution (Azure Site Recovery - ASR) – went live after major outage. Drafted monitoring report to proactively address issues and reduce outages.
Java Developer/Database Administrator/SAP Basis/NetWeaver Consultant at Ozone IT
April 1, 2011 - December 1, 2015
Oversee database administration and maintenance. Upgraded systems, performed system recoveries and refreshes, conducted database health checks, troubleshot issues, and developed Java internal system. Provided SAP NetWeaver consultancy services. Supported SAP systems, optimized systems, and integrated applications.

Education

Bachelor of Information Sciences at Massey University, New Zealand
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2015
Informatics Technician Diploma at Colégio Luterano Concórdia, Brazil
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2006

Qualifications

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Professional Services, Other

Experience Level

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