Data Engineer

Help us deliver like never before

We're looking for a 
Data Engineer
to join our diverse, talented and innovative digital technology team who together are helping our customers and communities build a better future. Together, we design, build and maintain products, services and experiences that Australian's love and trust, while delivering a sustainable future for Australia Post, and you could be part of that.  

We're empowered to deliver for our teams and to delight our customers. We provide an inclusive and supportive environment that nurtures talented people, trusts our teams to deliver their best, and leverages modern work practices and technologies. It's an unexpectedly dynamic and collaborative culture that feels more like a start-up than a 213-year old icon.
This is a 2-year Fixed-Term position.

What you'll deliver with us

As our
Data Engineer
you will work on our enterprise advanced data analytics technology platforms, GCP, Tableau, Neo4j and Looker, ensuring they are maintained to deliver efficient and effective services for our enterprise data community. This role will identify and implement best-practice application engineering lifecycle and agile approach, with a focus on leveraging cloud services and development tools, increasing the quality and reliability of output, along with the speed of delivery, and reducing friction of our development, delivery, and maintenance operations.

Maintaining our most critical data analytics infrastructure, this role will help to deliver cost effective, impactful data technology services that help to unlock data solutions for our enterprise. Delivering leading edge capability for machine learning, graph optimisation, cloud data engineering, business analytics and visualisation.

You'll also
 

• Collaborate with Data Engineers, and technology project teams, to deliver data visibility and automation across the enhances Product, Customer, Network, Retail, and corporate service teams.
• Ensure our data platforms roadmap is aligned with our Enterprise Data Strategy, and Data Services strategy.
• Be accountable to follow principle of delivery, following by governance and practical manner.
• Work to confirm data platform users understand how best to leverage the tools, providing them with training, documentation, workshops, and efficient service support.
• Be a key part of the build of our sustainable in-house capability and delivery continuity initiative.
• Support uplift in data engineering maturity across the organisation

About you
 

At Australia Post we have a very ambitious cloud data and digital transformation agenda, so we are seeking someone who is up to date with the recent market trends. Internally you will partner with Data Engineering, Data Solutions, Product Engineering, Security, Network, Architecture, and other technical teams. Communications skills are important as you will be involved with data, architecture, and digital technology think-tanks, strategy development and education forums. Externally you will get the opportunity to engage with merchant customers to lead technology initiatives. 

You'll also need
 

• Background using any major cloud platform (GCP preferred) to provision Data platforms using Infrastructure as Code
• Experience using advanced Data Engineering technologies ideally on GCP/Looker/Neo4j, any major cloud platform is acceptable
• Experience in data warehousing, data visualisation, data modelling, Dataform or DBT is advantageous
• Ability to participate in data governance, data architecture and data strategy for very large complex enterprises.
• Strong stakeholder management skills are critical
• Knowledge of object-oriented language paradigms and software engineering skills are useful
• Understanding of SQL (BigQuery), database optimisation, scripting and ETL approaches.
• Understanding of data orchestration and workflow pipeline engineering technologies
• Data Engineering certifications are highly regarded but not critical

If you do not meet the requirements of this position please still apply as we are open to hiring data engineers from graduate level upwards

We're delivering together
 

At Australia Post, we acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we operate, live and gather as employees. 

We believe our business should reflect the diverse communities we operate in and are proud to be an inclusive workplace for people from all walks of life. We encourage applications from people of all ages, genders and backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, People with Disability, LGBTQIA+ and Refugees. We are one of the largest organisations in Australia to successfully achieve Disability Confident Recruiter status. We are committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process and workplace for those living with a disability and are committed to reviewing and removing bias in our processes to create a gender-equitable recruitment experience and workplace.  If you have any questions about accessibility, please contact our Diversity & Inclusion team on