Data Engineer - Customer Data Platform

Company Description

Nine is Australia’s largest privately-owned media company – home to some of Australia's most trusted and loved brands across News, Sport, Lifestyle, and Entertainment. Our pride lies in creating excellent content that can be accessed by our audience at their convenience, irrespective of the platform – Publishing, Broadcasting, and Digital.

Nine's assets are inclusive of 9Network, major headlines like The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, and The Australian Financial Review, radio stations 2GB, 3AW, 4BC, and 6PR, digital platforms like nine.com.au, 9Now, 9Honey, Pedestrian.TV, Drive, Stan- a subscription video platform, and a large stake in Domain Group.

Our Purpose: We shape culture by instigating discussions, challenging viewpoints, and amusing our communities.

We unite people by commemorating momentous events and capturing everyday moments. Australia is intrinsic here. We breathe life into our purpose through three core values: We walk the talk, leave no stone unturned, and keep it human.

Job Description

Joining the Product and Technology data team, the Commercial Data Products team collectively enhances the data operational capacities for audience segmentation of the Sales Data Products team: gathering, storing and utilizing 1st and 3rd party data to offer better-focused advertising. These data are exclusive to Nine and serve as a competitive edge in creating premium data product inventory. Our focus is consistently on constructing high-performing data products, promoting efficiency, and reducing complexity in our data systems and models.

As a Data Engineer for the Customer Data Platform (CDP), you comprehend the significance of CDP within a large media organization, directly assisting in data integration into CDP. You will collaborate closely with the Tech Lead, Product Manager, working comfortably with a variety of technical and non-technical stakeholders. Your work ethic should be strong, keeping to the best practices and standards to ensure high standard of work and optimum performance.

Role Responsibilities

• Construct and monitor data ingestion, transformation, and integration into the CDP, ensuring data quality and uniformity
• Create and update security labels on datasets, construct and maintain automated access forms, implement measures to protect data.
• Establish monitoring tools, create alerts, and actively resolve any performance issues to maintain the platform's efficiency.
• Constantly optimize the platform's performance to facilitate fast query and retrieval of customer data.
• Collaborate with diverse teams, including data analysts, marketers, and product managers, to understand customer requirements and introduce new features or improvements to the CDP.

Qualifications

• Advanced knowledge and application of SQL and Python, used on Airflow and Cloud Platform, preferably Google Cloud Platform
• Basic understanding of database structures, theories, principles & practices
• Prior experience in a similar Data Engineer role
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, Version Control like Github or Bitbucket
• Prior experience with at least one renowned CDP vendor (such as Adobe Experience Platform, Tealium, Salesforce, Segments or Hightouch) is desirable

Additional Information

At Nine, we believe in the power of people. Being part of our team means you’ll be immersed in an environment that champions creativity and innovation, diversity and inclusion, is open to feedback, rewards impact, and ensures everyone's voice is heard. Importantly, you'll also receive the following benefits:

• Career development and quality training
• Up to 16 weeks of paid primary carer's parental leave
• Discounts on lifestyle, entertainment, and leisure memberships, including health insurance, dental, and gym
• Discounts on products and services with our corporate partners

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:

We're committed at Nine towards fostering a diverse and inclusive workforce, endorsing equal practices to ensure our people feel a sense of belonging. From your first day, we will support you to be your authentic self at work and perform at your best. If you need any adjustments to the recruitment process for equal participation, we urge you to inform us at the time of application.

We warmly welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals, people with disabilities, and people of all ages, nationalities, backgrounds, and cultures.

Disclaimer: We do not accept unsolicited agency resumes and will not be liable for any fees related to such submissions.