About the role
A Lead Data Engineer is a vital part of the Online Data Products team, who provide trustworthy and safe to use data assets for SEEK teams across APAC, so that they can make informed decisions and deliver customer experiences using data.
A Lead Data Engineer is a hands-on technical role, contributing to the build and operation of technical solutions, but has additional leadership responsibility for people management and delivery outcomes.
You will be responsible for:
- Direct line management of a small team of engineers
- Performance review and management of individuals.
- Professional growth via coaching and mentoring.
- Fostering a team culture that embraces delivery, ownership, teamwork, learning and continuous improvement.
- Setting goals, prioritising, planning, as well as contributing to budgeting and resourcing
- Lead delivery and operation of datamarts & other data assets, along with the data processing pipelines and orchestration to deliver them.
- Hands-on development and operational support duties alongside other data engineers.
- Ongoing ownership of solutions you build to ensure they remain fit for purpose, meet customer needs, meet technology health metrics, and align with architectural guidelines.
Skills and experience
- Experience with technical leadership, coaching and mentoring the capabilities of engineers
- Strong stakeholder management & communication skills
- Experience with Agile practices
- Advanced SQL and deep understanding of database technology
- Building data pipelines / ETL / workflow orchestration
- Big data processing systems (eg Spark, Hadoop)
- Cloud-based analytic data technology (ideally AWS)
- Developing datamarts and data warehouses
- Experience using “DevOps” practices: including ownership of deployments, infrastructure, system administration, monitoring, and operations
- Develop clean code using current practices like CI/CD, TDD, pair programming
- Experience supporting BI, data science, and AI/ML
- Physical, logical, dimensional data modelling
At SEEK we offer:
- Annual Performance Bonus Plan
- Support of flexible working, including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role.
- Paid and unpaid leave benefits including Personal Flexi Days and Volunteer Days, as well as the opportunity to purchase additional leave
- Support for parents with 14 weeks paid primary carers leave and 2 weeks paid leave for partners
- The opportunity to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per financial year
At SEEK, we are passionate about fostering a culture of inclusion and wellbeing that embraces and values the diversity of our people. We are a purpose driven business that works with heart.
We know teams with diverse ideas, experiences and perspectives are more creative and are critical to ensuring effective delivery and innovating to enable our future success. As such, we welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences, especially as they relate to gender, sexual identity, culture, faith, disability and life stages. If you have the skills, curiosity and an adaptable mindset but don't meet every responsibility or qualification listed in this advertisement, please still get in touch with us.
Should you require any specific support or adjustments throughout the recruitment process and beyond, please advise us and we will be happy to assist.
For this role, only those candidates with the eligible right to work will be considered.
SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.
