Senior Data Engineer

This role exists to lead the design, development, and implementation of scalable, secure, and high-performance data engineering solutions that underpin the organisation's data platform and business applications.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and implement complex data pipelines and frameworks that meet business, technical, and user requirements across different initiatives and projects.
• Deliver hands-on solutions using AWS, Talend, and Snowflake to support data warehouse and data lake implementations. Potentially Databricks in the future.
• Translate business requirements into technical specifications and data workflows.
• Develop high-performance data warehouses and data marts with a focus on query efficiency, data governance, and security.
• Take ownership of data pipelines and assets, ensuring they comply with security, and architectural standards and are available, reliable and resilient.
• Collaborate with other data engineers and internal teams to ensure data requirements are well understood and effectively delivered
• Deliver and support data assets that enable advanced reporting, analytics, and machine learning models
• Explore and implement AI and GEN AI/LLM capabilities within data pipelines to enhance data enrichment and automation.
• Perform work in a manner that complies with relevant regulatory standards including Work Health & Safety (WHS) legislation

Essentials

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline
• 10 years + of commercial experience in a Data Engineering / ETL & Data Warehouse Development roles ideally in Insurance domain.
• Experience of Talend, Snowflake, Azure, Databricks, AWS ecosystem- EC2, EMR, S3, Aurora, Hive/ Spark etc.
• Strong fundamental knowledge of ETL/ELT and data warehousing concepts.
• Advanced SQL experience, including fluency with PL/SQL procedures
• Performance tuning and cost optimisation in Snowflake and AWS.
• Good understanding of Business Intelligence and Data Management concepts
• Advanced problem-solving skills and strong business acumen
• Experience gathering and documenting data & reporting requirements, including data mapping
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams
• Excellent communication skills and working with business and IT stakeholders
• Intermediate understanding of data modelling and concepts especially Data Vault and other modelling techniques.
• Prior experience in the private health insurance or healthcare domain is highly desirable.

About HCF
At HCF, our purpose is to bring our human touch to healthcare. Since 1932 we've been putting our members and their health first. As Australia's largest not-for-profit health fund, we cover 2 million members with health, life, travel and pet insurance and our vision is to make healthcare understandable, affordable, high quality and member centric.

We want to be true health partners to our members, easily guiding the healthcare choices that are right for them. At HCF, our values are the way we do things and create the necessary culture to help us realise our purpose and deliver our Strategy. Living our values in action we step forward, walk in their shoes, stay human, make it better and get there together.

Culture & Benefits
Purpose-driven passion
We're united by a common purpose: to make healthcare affordable, understandable, high quality and member-focused.

Wellness and work-life balance
Skills
We'll empower you with the necessary skills and tools to support your personal wellbeing journey, ensuring you perform at your best. Our offerings include:

• 50% subsidy on HCF hospital and/or extras cover
• 18 weeks of parental leave for all new parents
• Mental health and wellbeing programs, including workshops, fitness classes, flu vaccinations, skin checks and more
• Discounts on HCF's products, including life, pet and travel Insurance, as well as discounts at Fitness First gyms and on our eyecare products.

Collaboration and inclusivity
We embrace diversity as our strength and are committed to maintaining an inclusive and collaborative work environment. Our workplace is welcoming and safe for all our employees, irrespective of their unique characteristics including age, ethnicity, cultural or spiritual background, gender identity, disability, education and socio-economic status.

Continuous learning and growth
We believe in lifelong learning. HCF provides opportunities for personal and professional development. From workshops to mentorship programs, we encourage your growth and curiosity.

Next steps
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We encourage applicants to submit their applications at their earliest convenience, as at HCF, we review applications as they are submitted, and may have filled the role prior to the job closing date.