Team Lead

Sydney

Join us on our mission to make a better world of work.

Culture Amp is the world’s leading employee experience platform, revolutionizing how 25 million employees across more than 6,500 companies create a better world of work. Culture Amp empowers companies of all sizes and industries to transform employee engagement, drive performance management, and develop high-performing teams. Powered by people science and the most comprehensive employee dataset in the world, the most innovative companies including Canva, On, Asana, Dolby, McDonalds and Nasdaq depend on Culture Amp every day.

Culture Amp is backed by leading venture capital funds and has offices in the US, UK, Germany and Australia. Culture Amp has been recognized as one of the world’s top private cloud companies by Forbes and most innovative companies by Fast Company.

How you can help make a better world of work

Are you an experienced Engineering Team Lead with a passion for data and leadership? Join Culture Amp’s Data Platform Team and help shape the future of work

As the Team Lead, you’ll oversee our internal data platform, which integrates data from our products and external sources, empowering analysts and data scientists to unlock powerful insights. Your work will be central to Culture Amp’s mission of delivering actionable insights to leaders, ultimately creating a better world of work for millions of employees.

In this role, you’ll excel in three key areas:

- People Leadership: Inspire and guide your engineers, helping them tackle complex challenges and removing obstacles so they can excel.
- Technical Leadership: Lead by example, solving complex problems and driving technical excellence.
- Delivery: Ensure timely and efficient project delivery within our Agile, cross-functional, and remote-friendly teams.

Culture Amp’s software engineering practice is inclusive and flexible, supporting remote work and fostering collaboration across distributed teams.

If you’re ready to make a significant impact and lead a dynamic team, we’d love to hear from you

In part of this team of amazing humans,

You will:

- Lead the design of Culture Amp’s data platform, including our data lake, warehouse, data modeling, orchestration, and governance frameworks
- Clearly communicate technical solutions with your team, peers, and other stakeholders
- Mentor and develop a team of engineers, fostering their growth into future technical leaders

You have:

- Strong understanding of data engineering and data platform architecture, including data lake and data warehouse architecture, data modeling, and building for security and compliance
- Experience with the AWS data stack including Redshift, MSK, and Glue
- Knowledge of key data stack components, such as dbt and Airflow
- Experience managing stakeholders and leading engineers, complemented by strong written and verbal communication skills.

You are:

- A technical leader who can balance hands on technical skills whilst empowering and coaching engineers.
- Open to receiving feedback and giving feedback to help others grow.

We believe that our employees are the heartbeat of our success. We're committed to fostering a work environment that truly cares for and develops its people, and creates lasting positive impact. In addition to providing a competitive compensation package, some of the key benefits we offer are:

- Employee Share Options Program: We empower you to be an owner in Culture Amp and share in our success
- Programs, coaching, and budgets to help you thrive personally and professionally
- Access to external providers for mental wellbeing and coaching support to sustain the wellbeing, safety and development of our people
- Monthly Camper Life Allowance: An automatic allowance paid out each month with your pay - you can spend it however you like to help improve your experience and life outside work
- Team budgets dedicated to team building activities and connection
- Intentional quarterly wellbeing pauses: A quarterly company-wide shutdown day in each region to collectively pause, reset and focus on restoration and rest, without having to tap into individual vacation time
- Extended year-end breaks: An extended refresh period at the end of year
- Excellent parental leave and in work support program available from day 1 of joining Culture Amp
- 5 Social Impact Days a year to make a positive impact on the community outside of work
- MacBooks for you to do your best & a work from home office budget to spend on setting up your home office
- Medical insurance coverage for you and your family (Available for US & UK only)

Additionally, we don't just focus on our internal community; we believe in creating a better world of work for all. We're committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, with Employee Resource Groups and ally communities in place.

We have a strong commitment to Anti-Racism, and endeavor to lead by example. Every step we make as a business towards anti-racism is another step we can take to support our customers in making a better world (of work). You can see our current commitments to Anti-Racism here.

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Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don't apply for roles if they don't meet all the criteria – unlike majority candidates meeting significantly fewer requirements.

We strongly encourage you to apply if you’re interested: we'd love to know how you can amplify our team with your unique experience

If you decide to apply, as part of your application, we will ask you to complete voluntary diversity questions (excluding roles in Germany). These questions are completely optional, but your participation truly helps. By sharing this anonymous information, you support our efforts to build a more inclusive and equitable hiring process—and help us hold ourselves accountable to that commitment. Your responses are entirely confidential and will not impact hiring decisions.

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