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Senior Data Engineer

Job No: 673501

Sydney - Inner Suburbs & CBD, Brisbane - Inner Suburbs & CBD, Melbourne - Inner Suburbs & CBD, Various

Permanent Full Time

IT

Pay Band 5


  • Flexible working Locations of Melbourne, Brisbane or Sydney
  • Hybrid Working Environment (WFH)
  • Implement and maintain Datawarehouse platform and data pipelines 

We’re never just satisfied with how things are – because we know how things could be. And it’s our expert Technology team who forge ahead every day to make those ‘what ifs’ a reality.

Welcome to a place where you can chase real progress and drive real change. And that includes your own career. Being a part of Technology at Suncorp Group means being switched on, endlessly curious and always adaptable. In return, you’ll be supported to bring your own ideas to the table and challenge conventions – with the aim of making life a little brighter, simpler, and better for our customers and each other.

As a Senior Data Engineer in the Insurance and Enterprise Technology (IET) domain, you will offer strong leadership and drive the technical vision and capability of the Data Warehousing Chapter. This will be achieved through your superior skills in design, development, implementation and maintenance of unified data platform in Databricks to meet the technology needs of the Groups.

You will have a passion for building robust data platform sufficing the needs of Data Warehousing and ELT use cases. You will also have to collaborate with world-class external and internal Solution Architects, data engineering experts, and contributing to the continuous improvement of our work processes. This presents a great opportunity to enhance your Data Engineering skills further and introduce new techniques and work methods to a collaborative team environment.

What you'll do

  • Implement and maintain Datawarehouse platform and data pipelines suitable for Data Warehousing and reporting use cases
  • Build data assets that are aligned to IET data strategy and architectural roadmaps
  • Promote and champion Data Platform and Engineering ways of working via continuous build, continuous integration and continuous delivery
  • Support detailed solution design, data modelling, estimation and specification process
  • Promote test driven development and automated unit test frameworks within the teams
  • Promote and champion DevOps (CI/CD) practices using Bitbucket and Jenkins
  • Coordination of deployment and release activities for the team
  • Develop data engineering standards, implementation patterns and how to guides
  • Challenge the development team on their delivery of quality, unit test coverage and assistance in the creation of development artefacts
  • Contribute to risk analysis and utilise that information to plan development activities
  • Identify technical and process improvements that will benefit the business
  • Optimising code and ensuring we are getting the best out of the Data Platform
  • Foster a safe, innovative and results driven culture

 

What you'll bring 

  • Tertiary qualification in Computer Science, or Information Technology
  • Minimum 6 years’ experience within Data Engineering with minimum 2 years in a similar role
  • Strong experience working in Data Warehousing and Data Analytics projects including data acquisition, data transformation, and data migration projects
  • Strong experience in SQL and Redshift
  • Experience in developing and optimising data pipelines using control-m and sql
  • Experience in data migration, building, enhancing and maintaining cloud data warehousing
  • Experience in performance tuning and optimising databases and SQL queries for analysis and reporting
  • Ability to rapidly acquire an understanding of complex business problems/requirements to develop solutions and designs, regardless of existing areas of expertise or specialisation
  • Strong skills and experience in cloud environments, especially AWS
  • Experience supporting high availability production systems is desirable
  • Experience with Databrick, DBT, Python and Pyspark is preferrable but not mandatory
  • Comfortable working within conceptual, logical and physical data model following Data Vault 2.0 and Kimball data modelling methodologies

 

What we can offer

  • A range of flexible working and leave options, including 20 weeks paid parental leave, 4 weeks paid secondary carer parental leave and unlimited paid emergency response leave
  • Discounts and offers on a range of retail favourite stores as well as insurance products
  • Give back to our communities with payroll giving, donation matching and paid volunteer leave
  • Invest in your brighter future with ongoing study support and career development programs; and
  • Prioritise your work/life balance with our robust employee assistance program and dedicated employee council

Employee benefits | Suncorp Group

 

At Suncorp we believe we are our best when our workforce is as diverse, talented and passionate as the communities in which we live and operate, and where our people feel included, valued and connected. We are passionate about inspiring our people by creating a diverse, accessible, and inclusive culture, offering flexible work, career development and internal mobility, and building connected relationships amongst our team members and with our customers.

 

If you require any support and adjustments to participate equitably in our recruitment process or in the workplace, we encourage you to contact luke.morandini@suncorp.com.au for a confidential conversation.

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