Senior Data Engineer

Company Description

Founded in 1988, Rest is one of the largest profit-to-member superannuation funds in Australia.

We serve more than 1.9 million members, managing about $70 billion in funds and are known as a leader in responsible investment. We believe that when members understand and engage with their super, they are more likely to achieve a better retirement outcome.

Everything we do at Rest is based on our values and behaviours. We strive to Be Daring, Keep it Simple, Take Action and Have Grit. In essence, we want our people to excel and enjoy their work.

Job Description

• Coaching and mentoring opportunities for enthusiastic data candidates from a manager with strong technical expertise and an equal passion for data
• Exposure to a large platform upgrade and new technologies including Snowflake, DBT and Fivetran
• Full time, permanent opportunity with options for hybrid work

Rest is enhancing its data platform capabilities and transitioning to a modern cloud platform. We're building a completely new pipeline that covers ingestion, integration, semantic and application-specific layers with comprehensive data quality governance. In this role, you can sharpen your design, engineering, and stakeholder management skills.

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities

• Work with a variety of cross-functional teams (including Analytics, Architecture, Information Security, Data Governance, and business teams) to design, develop and implement secure and stable data solutions that address the business needs.
• Design, develop and implement end-to-end data pipelines using on-premise and cloud-based platforms such as Snowflake, DBT, Fivetran, AWS CloudFormation and Python
• Collaborate with the Data Engineering Lead to design, develop and maintain the Rest data model
• Work with the Data Engineering Lead to uphold and enhance high quality coding standards and data integration patterns using modern design/development principles. Develop and implement data modelling standards and best practices for performance.
• Provide oversight and domain expertise to the cross-functional data and insights product team to ensure the delivery of outcomes aligned with the data platform
• Document and maintain data solutions and help the team improve overall documentation standards
• Contribute to, and enhance, knowledge sharing and collaboration within the team, with partners and across the organisation.
• Update job knowledge by researching new data management technologies and products; participate in learning and development opportunities
• Compliance and standards: Adhere to organisational principles and guidelines, making sure the solutions delivered are resilient, scalable, and consistent with Rest's existing framework.
• Continuous improvement: Identify opportunities for improvement, align with the overall analytics strategy, and implement changes.
• Actively participate and contribute to the Data Engineering Community of Practice

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualifications or equivalent experience in an Information Technology or related field

Required experience, understanding or credentials include:

• Significant experience in a similar data engineering role
• Significant experience in building end-to-end data pipelines using on-premise and cloud-based data platforms
• Excellent logical and physical data modelling skills as well as extensive experience in efficient SQL development and query performance & tuning
• Solid working knowledge of Data Warehouses, AWS, DBT and Python
• Working knowledge of Unix shell scripting
• Knowledge of relational and big data architectures, data warehousing, data integration, data modelling, data optimisation and data analysis techniques
• Understanding and appreciation of data management and data governance best practices
• A passion for technology, process improvement and implementing new ways of working
• A strong analytical thinker and problem solver with a positive attitude
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Experience working in an Agile environment

Additional Information

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to allow you to customise your experience with us and include:

• Opportunities for personal and professional development
• Flexible, hybrid working – work in a way that suits your lifestyle (must be based in Australia)
• Leave purchase scheme and gender-neutral 16 weeks paid parental leave
• Continuation of super contributions for 12 months of parental leave
• Meeting-free breaks (Rest Stops)
• Income Protection Insurance
• Rest Excellence awards (peer recognition awards based on Rest’s values and behaviours)

If you share our values, believe you can make a difference for our members and want to be part of a leading superannuation fund with a Super culture, please click Apply Now.

Rest is committed to creating a flexible work environment and culture that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion - where people feel welcome, safe to be themselves and inspired to do their best.

We value the unique backgrounds, lived experiences and abilities of our diverse team. We encourage applications from candidates of all ages, cultural backgrounds, faiths, gender identities, sexual orientations and ways of thinking. This includes individuals with disabilities or neurodiverse thinkers, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people, and those who've had significant career breaks.

Note that only candidates with the legal right to work in Australia will be considered.

*Funds under management as at 31 December 2022. Rest is recognised as a by the Responsible Investment Association Australia (RIAA) in its Responsible Investment Benchmark Report 2022.

Rest will review applications before the closing date and may close the role early if necessary.