Senior Data Engineer

4 weeks ago


Melbourne, Australia AusUnityPRD1 Full time

What Makes Us, Us

Established in 1840, we’re Australia’s first member-owned wellbeing company, delivering health, wealth and care services to more than 700,000 Australians. Today, while we’ve grown to a company of more than 7000 employees, our focus remains the same as it was 180 years ago — to deliver Real Wellbeing for our customers, members and the community.

We support your Real Wellbeing so you can better support our members’ and customers’ wellbeing journey

There Are Four Key Attributes That Set Us Apart

  • Good people: We strive to set ourselves apart through the capability, warmth and expertise of our people.
  • Wellbeing experts: Our breadth of capability enables us to provide smart solutions and services across all domains of wellbeing.
  • Long-term commitment: As a member-owned company, we’ve been focusing on long-term outcomes and single-minded dedication to our members and customers since 1840.
  • Driving positive impact: Everything we do is focused on making a positive difference at a personal, community and societal level.

These pillars are infused with our values of bold, warm and honest

Your New Role Looks Like This:

As the Senior Data Engineer, you will design, develop, and maintain scalable, secure and operationally stable modern data solutions that supports People & Culture initiatives. You will continuously improve the People Data Foundations Platform based on advancements in best practices and in response to business requirements.

Key Responsibilities Include:

  • Build brand new people data domain’s modern cloud platform
  • Design, develop, and maintain robust and scalable data pipelines and ETL processes on cloud platforms, with a strong focus on AWS services.
  • Architect and optimize data warehouse and data lake solutions for high performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.
  • Implement and optimize data warehouse and data lake solutions on AWS to support the platform initiatives.
  • Ensure data quality and integrity by implementing data validation and monitoring processes.
  • Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand data requirements and deliver solutions that meet their needs.
  • Implement best practices for data governance, security, and compliance on cloud platforms, including encryption, access control, and auditing.
  • Automate deployment, monitoring, and management of data infrastructure using cloud-native tools and technologies.
  • Lead performance tuning and optimization efforts to enhance the speed, scalability, and efficiency of data processing and analytics workflows
  • Manage and support the daily operational performance of the platform including monitoring, alerting, lifecycle management, incident response and defect resolution within defined thresholds.
  • Mentor and provide technical guidance to team members, fostering a culture of learning and continuous improvement within the data foundations team.

About You:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. Master's degree preferred.
  • 7+ years of experience in data engineering or software development, with a strong focus on cloud technologies.
  • 4+ years’ experience developing data solutions in cloud platform AWS tech stack (Glue, CloudFormation, EMR, S3, EC2, Redshift, RDS)
  • Proficiency in programming languages such as Python with a demonstrated ability to build complex data processing applications and workflows
  • Familiarity with big data technologies such as Apache Spark is a plus
  • Solid understanding of data modelling, database design, and SQL, along with experience working with both relational and non-relational databases.
  • Working knowledge of Data Quality and Master Data Management
  • Strong Software quality assurance and problem diagnosis and resolution
  • Proven DevOps experience inclusive of creating CI/CD/CT pipelines for data engineering and analytics
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to troubleshoot complex data issues and optimize data workflows for performance and scalability.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
  • Liaise effectively with project team members, business stakeholders and external vendors to build strong partnerships to help create a collaborative, transparent, and high performing culture with a strong delivery mind set.
  • Demonstrable experience in mentoring and coaching those around you to develop their own technical skills.
  • AWS certifications such as AWS Certified Data Engineer, AWS Certified Solutions Architect or AWS Certified Big Data - Specialty are desirable.

What’s on Offer:

You will enjoy a range of great employee benefits and rewards including:

  • Competitive salary + bonus program
  • Enjoy additional yearly Well-Being and Community leave days
  • 14-week paid parental leave, with equal benefit for both parents PLUS our Bump to Baby
  • Employee Referral Program
  • Employee Assistance Program – support and assistance for you and your partner at those times in life when you need it most
  • Maxxia Rewards - a great range of discounts and benefits at selected retail outlets, department stores, attractions, travel, cinemas, restaurants.
  • Discounts across the Australian Unity business including Private Health Insurance, General Insurance + more
  • Available access to LinkedIn Learning courses through our great Learning platform


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