Data Engineer

The future of innovation starts with you - join Findex as a Data Engineer
Are you a data wrangler who enjoys optimizing data systems and building them from the ground up? Join our growing team of analytics experts as a Data Engineer.

The successful candidate will be responsible for expanding and optimizing our data and data pipeline architecture, as well as optimizing data flow and collection for cross functional teams.  You must be self-directed and comfortable supporting the data needs of multiple teams, systems and products.

This is a full-time, permanent position for any candidate based in Australia. 

What will your typical week look like?

• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.
• Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources (Direct database, File, API's, Automation outputs or various combinations), AWS 'big data' technologies as well as our proprietary datalake technologies.
• Build analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into customer acquisition, operational efficiency and other key business performance metrics.
• Work with stakeholders including the Executive, Product, Data and Design teams to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs.
• Create data tools for analytics and data scientist team members that assist them in building and optimizing our product into an innovative industry leader.

Let's talk about you You are..

• Excellent in developing & maintaining client and stakeholder relationships.
• Experienced with performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Ready to use your strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets.
• Qualified with a Graduate degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems or another quantitative field.

You have preferred experience in..

• Experience working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases as well as working RESTful API Method knowledge.
• Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management.
• Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable 'big data' data stores.
• Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres and Cassandra.
• Experience with AWS cloud services: EC2, EMR, RDS, Redshift.
• Experience with stream-processing systems: Storm, Spark-Streaming, etc.
• Experience building and optimizing 'big data' data pipelines, architectures and data sets.
• Experience with an existing middleware ELT platform or platforms (Talend, Pentaho, Nifi etc.)

More about the perks

• Full remote working set- up to work from wherever you want
• Join a supportive and close-knit team who want to see you thrive
• Clear career development pathway and ongoing training support
• Continuous learning and development initiatives

Let's talk about our team

• Join a team who share a commitment to making a difference.
• A well-established, collaborative, high performing team.
• Work with industry leading professionals who care about your growth
• Like-minded individuals who support each other and thrive

About us
At Findex we are passionate about what we do and how we do it. Are you a big and bold thinker? Do you like to make meaningful change? Are you motivated by working in a business that puts clients first and embraces teamwork? Do you want to be part of a team that moves together, operates in a high trust environment and celebrates success? Do you take pride in delivering quality work, being accountable and maintaining high standards?

If this sounds like you, we look forward to meeting you.
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PLEASE NOTE:
Only candidates with valid working rights within Australia will be considered.

Findex is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and encourage applications from candidates with a variety of strengths, backgrounds and experiences.

Note for Recruitment Agencies:
This role is being managed by Findex Talent Acquisition and we will not accept unsolicited resumes/applications from Recruitment Agencies.