Data Engineering Manager

Are you interested in joining the dream team at Wesfarmers OneDigital?

Good call. We’re an exciting new digital enterprise with big ideas, supporting some of Australia’s most trusted and iconic brands focussed on making lives better for people all around Australia. We’re well on our way towards bringing the best of digital and data possibilities together to create more personalised shopping experiences for customers across our retail brands. Why? Because we want to make life more effortless for all Australians.

We’re continuing to bring the best talent and skills under one roof, working together and across disciplines to build amazing experiences for our customers. We continuously feed off each other’s insights, talents and capabilities, because we are a business that thrives on open collaboration and a shared vision of positive, fun and rewarding experiences.

**Your Chapter Purpose**

With plans to transform the Australian retail and industrial landscape, comes a big responsibility. We see a future where we are leaders in the data and digital space. It’s why we’ve been working hard to accelerate the development of data, digital and analytics capabilities across our businesses. We’re focused on harnessing the power of data and transforming it into meaningful insights that enhance our customer experience, strengthen our businesses, and help them pursue new growth opportunities. Our talented and agile team co-create and solve complex problems. It’s innovation, to create better experiences for our customers. It’s adding real value, that supports decision making across the Wesfarmers Group, and its transformational work, that’ll change the industries we operate in.

**What you’ll be doing**

The primary purpose of this role is to lead the Data Engineering team for our OnePass business unit and provide data engineering support and thought leadership more broadly across OneDigital and strategic projects. This is a hands-on technology leadership role focused on people management and the delivery of operational data solutions.
- Provide data engineering technical and strategic leadership within OnePass (i.e. provide thought leadership, technical trouble shooting, best practice Data Engineering, engagement with other engineering and use case squads, project pipelining and project delivery).
- Lead engagement with OneDigital Leadership and use case squads to map out data driven project requirements, understand strategic initiatives, identify key data assets, and the resulting data engineering requirements.
- Lead the design, development, and optimisation of the backend components of the data platform including data pipelines, and data governance standards, for ongoing OnePass initiatives.
- Imbue deep knowledge and best practices in the areas of data and software engineering, datawarehousing, and understand the needs and practices of analytics users such as data scientists, data analysts and BI developers.
- Participate in the development and operation of services that are easy to build and manage, well architected and secure.
- Support delivery of OnePass operational KPIs.
- Cost optimisation and Security of OnePass data solutions

**To shine on day one, what you need to have**:

- 10+ years of industry experience in data warehousing /engineer systems design and development, preferably in a large corporate environment
- Experience with agile product management processes - breaking down concepts into epics, users stories and tasks. defining sprints, managing a backlog, planning releases against a long-term platform product roadmap
- Experience in managing hybrid teams including specialist contractors in design/development activities.
- Comfortable with a hands-on role through the full data lifecycle of design, development, delivery and ongoing support.

**Why OneDigital?**
- Working in a community of industry-leading innovators with a diverse and deep set of skills and experience, you will learn, collaborate, and co-create to achieve great things.
- You’ll have ownership of your role, which will allow you to find the right balance between stretch and sustainability, work, and life.
- Culture of comradery and collaboration - OneTeam
- Plus, all the tools and learning you need, the tone is set for you to shine and succeed.
- We know that diversity fosters greater innovation and better customer connection, so we strive to create a team where everyone feels like they belong. We support diversity, inclusion and we are a gender-neutral organisation. We celebrate individuals at their core, so they shine to their best.

**Team Benefits - just to name a few**

To support you at work, what you value in life and in the community, our team member benefits include:

- Access to the latest technologies
- An annual budget for your learning and development (this includes learning of your choice, certifications and more)
- Extended parental leave (16 weeks for primary carers), and paid volunteer days
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