Data Engineer

• Iconic Australian owned and operated global retail brand
• Excellent Package + Profit Share + Employee Discounts + Work Flexibility & more
• A vibrant, team-oriented culture where we embrace pace and encourage new ideas

About the Role

We are seeking a skilled and experienced Data Engineer to join our dynamic team and play a pivotal role in shaping our modern data engineering practice. As a Data Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing and implementing data engineering solutions that enable our organization to derive valuable insights from its vast data assets.

What You Will Be Doing

• Establish and maintain a modern data engineering practice in collaboration with IT stakeholders,business stakeholders,and partners
• Implement and maintain applications and systems for accessing,processing,enriching,cleaning dataand orchestrating data analytics as requested by business teams
• Gather and document business requirements,prepare functional designsand technical specifications covering all aspects of data engineering from ETL to presentation of information
• Administer,manageand support SRG's data analytics landscape and associated application assets
• Develop and manage technology frameworks encompassing comprehensive documentation of data collection design,data pipeline establishment,data movement with pre-processing and transformation,data storage strategies and data governance
• Implement techniques such as aggregates,indexing,partitioning,clustering,archiving,and compression to enhance performance
• Proactively monitor and identify potential issues with application performance,availability,or data integrity
• Lead and support data analytics application landscape enhancements,upgrades,and patches
• Assist end-users to understand and interpret the information on the landscape
• Provide appropriate on-call after-hours support in line with SLAs

About You

• Must have expertise in ETL/ELT processes,data warehousing, data lake,and orchestration
• Tertiary qualifications in Computer Science,Data Scienceor a related field
• At least 3+ years of experience as a Data Engineer or a similar role
• Proven experience in designing,developing,and implementing data engineering solutions
• Strong understanding of data governance principles and practices
• Experience with cloud-based data platforms such as AWS or Azure, cloud infrastructure services (ideally AWS) and SQL programming
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python and JavaScript
• Excellent analytical,problem solving,consulting and communication skills (back-of-house & front-of-house)
• Proven ability to engage with internal customers to gather and document business requirements,functional requirements and design of solutions
• Good understanding of retail business processes
• Demonstrated ability to produce high quality documentation with Ability to explain technical systems,problems & outcomes to non-technical staff
• Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced environment,meeting deadlines & multi-task under limited Supervision Formal training or certification in IaaS,PaaS,SaaS areas such as AWS services,Azure services,Snowflake,PowerBI,Apache Airflow,DBT or equivalent technology is highly desirable.

What's in it for you?

Along with the incredible career- growth opportunity of being part of our talented IT team, we can offer you

• Great salary base + Super + Profit Share + Hybrid Role
• Progression & personal development
• A culture that rewards initiative and creativity
• Centrally located office, close to south Melbourne market, for when we return to work
• Benefits- team discount, EAP, gym discounts and more

Who We Are

Spotlight Group Holdings ("SGH") is looking to grow their talented, highly entrepreneurial team. SGH is Australia's largest privately-owned and operated family business, comprising of the Spotlight Retail Group, the Spotlight Property Group, Spotlight Direct Investments and the Spotlight Charitable Foundation.

Comprising of the long term existing iconic brands in
Spotlight, Anaconda
and
Mountain Designs
, together with the exciting addition of
Harris Scarfe
, SRG is acknowledged as the market leaders within the Australian retail Space.

To apply, please complete our online application form and submit an up-to-date resume.

You must have unrestricted working rights in Australia to be considered for this position

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted
No agency enquiries or applications please