Data Engineer

We're reimagining the way Australians live, work, and play. We own and manage some of the most recognisable and loved retail destinations across Australia.

We're evolving our portfolio into destinations that offer a broad selection of retail, residential, and office spaces. Through our diverse portfolio, data-led decision-making, and nationwide development pipeline, we do things differently.

We are Vicinity.

Role purpose

The key purpose of the Data Engineer role is to shape the organisation's data infrastructure. This includes developing complex data pipelines for large-scale data ingestion, transformation, and storage. The Data Engineer enhances workflows to ensure optimal performance, scalability, and reliability, maintaining robust and efficient data systems. Responsibilities also encompass implementing advanced data models, managing data lakes, warehouses, and other storage solutions. Additionally, the Data Engineer integrates structured and unstructured data into centralised repositories and establishes best practices for data quality monitoring, validation, and governance. This role supports data-driven decision-making and aligns with the organisation's strategic objectives.

Key Accountabilities

Data Engineering

• Architect and develop sophisticated ETL/ELT pipelines for large-scale data ingestion, transformation, and storage.
• Optimise workflows for high performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Implementation of advanced data models and architectures.
• Manage and maintain data lakes, warehouses, and other storage solutions.
• Ensure integration of structured and unstructured data into centralised repositories.
• Establish and enforce best practices for data quality monitoring, validation, and governance.
• Design and implement secure data handling protocols aligned with regulatory requirements.
• Work closely with analysts, scientists, architects, and business stakeholders to identify and deliver data solutions that meet strategic objectives.

Centre of Excellence

• Uphold DevSecOps best practices.

Key Role Relationships

• Solutions Architects
• Enterprise Architects
• Domain Architects
• Engineers
• Data Scientists
• Data & AI Enablement Manager
• Data & AI Governance Analysts
• Analytics Platform Engineers
• Application Specialists
• Platform Engineers
• Solution Managers

Experience & Capabilities

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE (what you have done)

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 2+ years of experience in data engineering, with a experience in building and managing complex data pipelines.
• Proficient in programming in Python, Spark, SQL and NoSQL.
• Experience using AWS or Azure.

CRITICAL KNOWLEDGE (what you need to know)

• Knowledge of data modelling and star schema methodology.
• Proficiency in data engineering programming languages such as Python.
• Knowledge of database technologies (e.g. PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Snowflake) and big data tools (e.g. Spark, Hadoop).
• Understanding of cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure) and their data services.
• Familiarity with containerisation technologies and orchestration tools (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes).

CAPABILITIES (what you can do)

• Develop large-scale data pipelines to process and integrate complex datasets efficiently.
• Work with live streaming data.
• Work with JSON and Parquet data formats.
• Build API based solutions.

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES (who you are)

You consistently demonstrate and role model the behaviours that bring the Vicinity values to life:

Respect:

• We listen to and acknowledge each other's views
• We have difficult conversations with care

Integrity:

• We back our words with the right actions
• We do the right thing, no matter the situation

Customer Focus:

• We nurture a genuine connection with our customers
• We consider customer needs when making decisions

Collaboration:

• We invite the right people to the table
• We balance consensus with decisive actions

Excellence:

• We always strive to improve
• We share our challenges and celebrate the wins

Why Vicinity?

Our benefits program focuses on creating an awesome place to work in which our people are rewarded and recognised. This includes:

• Flexible working options
• Birthday leave & purchased additional leave
• $1,000 worth of VCX securities rewarded for eligible team members
• Generous Parental Leave

We live and work by our values of Respect, Integrity, Customer Focus, Collaboration and Excellence. They are the foundation to everything we do and provide us a north star with which we can shape meaningful places where communities connect.

At Vicinity we embrace and celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive work environment where we attract, retain and develop our people regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability and age. Applications are encouraged from all sectors of the community and we strongly encourage applications from the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community.

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Note: To be eligible to apply for this position, you must have existing, relevant Australian work rights. At the later stages of the recruitment process the shortlisted candidate/candidates will be required to undergo a Criminal History Background/Police Check as a mandatory part of the process. Additional qualification checks may also be required dependant on role and level.