SEEK is hiring a

Senior Data Engineer

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Full-Time

About the role

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior Data Engineer to join our team and support all areas of our rapidly growing business. A dynamic and exciting role, you will have high visibility and interaction with senior leaders with room to grow your skillset and career.

We enjoy working in a flat, collaborative, and fluid organisation where the focus is on working together to provide our users with outstanding products. This is a compelling opportunity to see your work directly influence the future of the business and the growth of our products. If you love big data, enjoy solving interesting problems and get excited by technology, then this job is for you!

As Jora is part of the SEEK group, you will also have access to a larger community of data specialists including data engineers, analysts and data scientists which you will be able to participate in and learn from.

Responsibilities

  • Design scalable, high-performance data architectures and enforce data modelling standards.
  • Deploy, operate, and support data infrastructure and services on Databricks and AWS
  • Maintaining system health, ensuring that our systems are secure, reliable, resilient and cost effective.
  • Implement stringent data quality checks and troubleshoot issues to ensure data integrity.
  • Establish and enforce data governance policies, ensuring compliance with standards.
  • Growing the technical capabilities of more junior engineers, analysts and data scientists through coaching and mentoring.
  • Work closely and share knowledge with our partner businesses.

Essential Qualification, Skills and Experience

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, statistics, mathematics, or other related discipline
  • 3+ years relevant professional experience or postgraduate qualification (Master's/Ph.D.)
  • Highly proficient in both SQL and Python
  • Building and operating cloud-based data processing and warehousing solutions
  • Big data processing experience, preferably Databricks, EMR, Spark & Hadoop
  • Strong software engineering, coding & scripting
  • Logical and physical data modelling
  • Ownership of deployments, infrastructure, system administration, monitoring, and operations (ie. DevOps)
  • Data pipeline / ETL / workflow orchestration with Airflow
  • Databricks platform, particularly Spark Structured Streaming, Delta Lakes & Unity Catalog
  • AWS services, particularly EMR & S3, but also IAM, Cloudformation, CDK, Lambda, SNS, SQS, SSM
  • Kafka technologies, particularly KStreams DSL, processor and producer/consumer APIs
  • Develop clean code using good practices like CI/CD, TDD, pair programming, code review

The Team

Jora is a job search platform, headquartered in Melbourne and operating on a global scale. Jora aggregates employment opportunities from thousands of different job sites, and provides a freemium job posting service to employers across multi-markets, with the purpose of offering jobseekers the largest source of job opportunities in real time.

Jora operates as a start-up in the SEEK Group and is focused on continually improving and expanding its product offering to fuel rapid growth.

Find out more about Jora by visiting: https://www.jora.com/

Perks & Benefits

At SEEK we offer: 

  • Support of flexible working, including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role. 
  • The opportunity to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per financial year 
  • Casual dress – every day 
  • Work life balance
  • Extensive employee benefits
  • Permanent position
  • Mature & Collaborative working culture

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.

SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.

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