Data Engineer

Hays Melbourne, Australia

Posted 19 hours ago Permanent Competitive

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You are a key member of the team working to deliver meaningful data assets. You play a key role in enabling the department to answer critical business questions by developing data pipelines to maintain stable data sources relied upon for analysis and reporting.
Your role report to the Data Platform & AI Manager in the Business Performance division.

Your new role

Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain robust, scalable data management solutions hosted in cloud environments, ensuring they meet the organisation's business requirements.

Expand and optimise data pipeline architecture, applying DataOps principles to improve data reliability, efficiency, and quality.

Build and maintain the CI/CD pipeline for deploying data infrastructure, ensuring best practice methods including Continuous Integration/Deployment and DevOps patterns are followed.

Deploy and manage data infrastructure components (data lakes, warehouses, streaming platforms)

Implement infrastructure-as-code practices for reproducible and version-controlled deployments

Collaborate on data architecture decisions to support scalability and business requirements

Ensure data systems are secure, compliant, and follow best practices

Work closely with the Data Platform Team, analytics team, and business users to understand requirements, identify new data sources and productionise ETL

Translate business needs into technical pipeline specifications and deliverables

What you'll need to succeed

Have at least 3 years' Python coding experience in a data or software development setting.

Experience in utilising SQL (PostgreSQL, SnowSQL, Snowflake) to extract, transform and load (ETL) data into data warehouse.

Experience in monitoring, automating and uplifting data warehouse outcomes using DevOps methodologies and toolsets, including GIT.

Experience desirable working with agentic coding tools.

Experience working with Windows and Linux operating systems, including in Docker.

Excellent analytical skills and proven track record solving difficult problems.

Experience in Agile tools such as the Atlassian Suite (Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket).

Continuous Integration/Delivery tools such as Github, Bitbucket, Bitbucket Pipelines.

What you'll get in return

Working in an organisation where they develop and grow careers.

A contractual opportunity offering excellent daily rate

Flexible working arrangements, including 2-3 day per week in the office.

What you need to do now

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.
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ABOUT COMPANY

Hays Australia

Sydney, Australia

12100 Employees HR & Recruitment

About us

At Hays, we invest in lifelong partnerships that empower people and businesses to succeed. You are at the heart of everything we do. With over 50 years’ experience and a workforce of more than 10,000 people across 32 countries, we collectively put our customers, at the heart of everything we do.

Drawing on knowledge that’s unique to our scale, our commitment to understanding your needs and our ability to meaningfully innovate we are more than just a specialist recruitment business. By providing advice, insights and expertise on issues you face in today’s fast paced world of work, we’ll help you make the right decisions for tomorrow.

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