Parktrail Associates

ParkTrail Associates is a specialist recruitment agency focused on modern data engineering across Australia. Founded by Mark Jesson, the company recruits Data Engineers, Data Architects, and Engineering Leaders for contract and permanent roles across startups, consulting firms, enterprise organisations, and technology companies. With over 16 years of experience in technology recruitment, ParkTrail Associates brings deep market knowledge and technical expertise to every placement, ensuring clients find the right talent rather than simply matching keywords.

ParkTrail Associates specialises in recruiting across the modern data stack, including Data Engineers, Senior and Lead Data Engineers, Analytics Engineers, and Data Platform Engineers. The company focuses on key technologies and platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, dbt, Python, SQL, Apache Airflow, Spark, Redshift, BigQuery, Microsoft Fabric, Kafka, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Fivetran, Coalesce, Iceberg, and Delta Lake. The agency also recruits Data Architects, Cloud Data Architects, Snowflake Architects, Platform Architects, Engineering Managers, Heads of Data Engineering, Directors of Data, and Chief Data Officers.

Operating across Australia's major cities including Sydney and Melbourne, ParkTrail Associates partners with organisations undertaking significant data transformation programmes. Mark Jesson, the agency's director, previously led Data and Analytics recruitment across Asia Pacific at EY, where he grew the practice from 85 to over 475 professionals. Clients choose ParkTrail Associates for their long-term relationship approach, technical depth, and ability to build high-performing teams across Australia's most significant data platform modernisation initiatives.