Data Engineer

What Makes Us, Us

We want to be the most trusted wellbeing company in Australia, and this means our focus on wellbeing starts with our people. We support our employees Real Wellbeing so that they can better support our members’ and customers’ wellbeing journey. 

At Australian Unity We’re for real wellbeing. For us, real wellbeing means so much more than physical health. It’s about your standard of living, your personal relationships and being connected to your community. It’s about what you want to achieve in life, while having the security to get out and do what makes you happy.

We’re bold, warm and honest. We make a real difference to people’s wellbeing.

Your New Role Looks Like This

As the Data Engineer, you will design, develop and maintain scalable, secure and operationally stable modern data solutions that support the enterprise community of Data and Analytics practitioners to deliver innovation and business value. You will continuously improve the Enterprise Data Platform (EDP) based on advancements in best practices and in response to business requirements.

Key Responsibilities Include

• Maintain and continue to enhance the infrastructure required for optimal data orchestration and transformation from a wide variety of sources leveraging AWS data services and technologies.
• Work with different stakeholders to develop and manage data pipelines and curation of common data sets for the business use.
• Support the Data & Analytics teams build data solutions that drives insights to support business objectives.
• Manage complex data quality rules and custom functionality in the Master Data Management (MDM) platform.
• Manager and support the daily operational performance of the EDP including monitoring, alerting, lifecycle management, incident response and defect resolution within defined thresholds.
• Contributes to the architecture, design and implementation of a modern data analytics platform
• Mentors other Data Engineering staff in the delivery of services and problem resolution

What we are looking for

• Demonstrated experience in commercial software development or data analytics experience, with tertiary qualifications in Computer Science or related discipline.
• In depth knowledge of documentation, coding, testing and deployment using multiple development languages and platforms
• Strong Software quality assurance and problem diagnosis and resolution
• Demonstrated experience with one or more Relational and NoSql database platform.
• Demonstrated experience developing data solutions in AWS tech stack (Glue, cloudformation, EMR, S3, EC2, Redshift, RDS)
• Experience with delivering and maintaining Big Data implementations
• Experience in Python, PySpark & Airflow would be highly regarded
• Performance analysis and optimization of data ETL processes
• Working knowledge of Data Quality and Master Data Management
• Ability to understand the essential needs of users and meet these needs in well-designed data pipelines, software applications and solutions.
• Advanced skills and knowledge of designing distributed systems and architecture patterns
• Demonstrable experience in mentoring and coaching those around you to develop their own technical skills.

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

For further benefits visit: https://www.australianunity.com.au/careers/culture

Australian Unity is an Equal Opportunity employer and we encourage applications from all members of the community, including people of Aboriginal and Torres strait Islander descent, culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and, mature aged people.