Data Engineer - 12-month fixed term contract

The Role

David Jones exists to inspire like no other and as we continue to deliver on our ambitious transformation agenda in line with our Vision 2025+ strategy, we are committed to creating inspired careers so our people can Thrive. 

In this role, you will assist in building, maintaining, and optimizing data pipelines and infrastructure across Snowflake, dbt and AWS to deliver the data requirements for the key transformation programs and also to provide ongoing build & run support (DevOps) for the data platforms.

As a Data Engineer, you will collaborate with other team members to manage and transform data to support our data platforms. You will be an integral part of the team, helping to enhance our data capabilities and reduce complexity in our data systems.

What YOUR DAY LOOKS LIKE

• Design, build and maintain the data infrastructure on Snowflake, dbt & AWS Data Services
• Design, build and maintain the automation of CI/CD pipelines using buildkite and git
• Design, build and maintain the alerting, monitoring and notifications on data pipelines and data assets across snowflake, AWS and dbt
• Write test driven quality code that is templated, modular, secure and reusable
• Improve the overall test coverage of the code
• Perform daily monitoring checks of the critical batches and report any issues in a timely manner
• Work closely with lead engineer and platform manager to build the ownership of data platform assets
• Contribute to the data modelling on snowflake
• Build and maintain data engineering activities on AWS & Snowflake using services and tools such as Glue, Lambdas, SQL, Python, dbt
• Build and maintain the integrations between AWS and Snowflake
• Work with stakeholders to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data needs
• Build quick & lean prototypes and proof of concepts to swiftly test new tools, capabilities
• Partner with Snowflake and AWS product teams to learn about new features and stay up to date with new trends

What YOU’LL NEED TO THRIVE

 Experience

• Solid experience in data engineering building data infrastructure and data pipelines
• Experience working in cross functional scrum team-based delivery model
• Experience in learning new tools on the job

Technical Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Good experience with AWS and Snowflake is essential.
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, dbt is a must
• Solid programming skills in Infrastructure as Code using CFN, Buildkite is a must
• Good understanding of Engineering & DevOps practices is a must