Senior Data Platform Engineer

Company description:

Insignia Financial Limited is an Australian financial services company which offers a range of products and services including financial advice, superannuation, investment management and trustee services

Job description:

• Make your move. Make your mark
• Put your fingerprints on the future to progress your career
• Make a difference, make it meaningful

The opportunity to join our team

We're looking for a Senior Data Platform Engineer to own our critical data platforms and ensure they run smoothly, securely, and efficiently. This is a chance to use your expertise to maintain the backbone of our data ecosystem and apply your DevOps skills in a data context.

The focus of this role is squarely on data platform engineering, so your hands-on experience with cloud technology and with tools like terraform and Jenkins is essential to drive success. You'll make a direct impact on data quality, governance, and platform reliability by applying your expertise to the core tools we use.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage and maintain critical data platforms and applications, ensuring reliability, uptime, and high-quality data
• Support data lakes, warehouses, and ingestion pipelines, diagnosing and resolving technical issues
• Own platform health, upgrades, patching, and security, proactively addressing vulnerabilities
• Apply DevOps skills with Jenkins, CI/CD pipelines, Docker, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
• Work with GCP and AWS to manage and automate cloud infrastructure
• Mentor junior engineers and drive improvements in automation, efficiency, and data governance

What you will bring

• Proven extensive experience in data engineering, data platform management, or a similar role
• Expert in modern data platforms and ETL/ELT tools, with strong SQL and scripting (Python, Java)
• Hands-on experience with GCP (essential) and AWS
• Proficient in infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), CI/CD (Jenkins), and DevOps practices including containerization (Docker)
• Experience leading and mentoring junior engineers
• Fast learner, hits the ground running, and communicates effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders

Find the better way

What gets us excited about working here? Helping people feel good about their money as one of Australia's leading financial wellbeing organisations. From those starting out to those retiring. As your team, we'll show up for you and together we will create financial wellbeing for every Australian. Because we know people who are confident about their financial future live better lives.

If this sounds like your kind of career, you sound like our kind of person. With us, you'll do work that builds your technical know-how and challenges our entire industry to move forward. Along the way, you'll be free to explore new ideas and technology, solve problems in a team, and independently to get great things done. Around here, we like to call it "putting our fingerprints on the future".

People-inspired tech

Deep expertise combined with creativity can take on the trickiest of problems. Join our team of brilliant minds and mentors as we explore our way to innovation and apply technology in more human ways than ever.

To Apply

Read more here about why you should join our team.

Applicants will be required to provide evidence of their eligibility to work in Australia, and at a minimum be required to undertake police and basic credit checks as a condition of employment.

Please note that applications from agencies will not be considered at this time.

We acknowledge and celebrate the richness that individual differences bring to our team. If you need assistance or an adjustment during the application process, please reach out and let us know.