Staff Data Engineer

Staff Data Engineer

Do work that matters

At Bankwest we’re proud to be part of the fabric of Western Australia with a strong culture built on local support. We’ve always been innovative, evolving over time to look after a growing regional market and seeking out new customers. Our Bankwest Technology division is at the heart of our digital product strategy and is responsible for the management and deployment of technology change across the organisation. Our tech teams work at pace, with autonomy and local decision making, to deploy world-class solutions in the pursuit of our business strategy.

See yourself in our team

Bankwest's Technology Division develops and executes all technical change within the organisation ensuring the leverage of technology to deliver the Bankwest strategy. The Division works on a wide variety of technologies and projects with the support of a dedicated team in an Agile methodology. Our team is responsible for the world-leading application of technology and operations across every aspect of the bank – from product platforms for our customers, to essential tools within our business.

Reporting into the Crew Tech Lead, you will be part of a highly skilled, collaborative and culturally diversified Engineering team. This role would be ideal for an experienced Data Engineer with commendable recent experience working in big data projects, along with a strong background in managing multiple stakeholder groups and strong technical leadership experience. You will come with a strong blend of skills in data engineering and data delivery, along with a commendable exposure in implementing end-to-end Big Data solutions.

We’re interested in hearing from people who

• Specialised experience in implementing solutions in complex projects with strong data integration focus will be highly regarded for this role

• Possess ability to produce conceptual, logical and physical data models using data modelling techniques

• Has the ability to design data warehousing and enterprise analytics-based solutions using relevant data platforms

• Proven record of accomplishment of Agile delivery including leading and working on a project from pre-inception through to business and technical delivery, including the support and maintenance of delivered systems.

• Ability to lead, direct, coach and guide software developers.

• Driving pragmatic and fit for purpose solutions of high technical quality. Act as "Quality Advocate" for the squad, encourage critical thinking mindset and drive prevention of defects over detection of defect.

• Identify, define, document and advocate for the most appropriate approaches to achieve stated business goals objectives and deliver the product vision, whilst remaining aligned with organizational target architectures and roadmaps

• Provide tools, expertise, and knowledge to help squad gain a shared understanding of outcome and shared ownership of quality.

• Support the team in delivering quality outcomes within committed time frames.

• Follow secure code practice.

• Possess commendable experience in consistently driving cost effective and technologically feasible solutions, while steering solution decisions across the group, to meet both operational and strategic goals is essential.

• Are adept with abilities to positively influence the adoption of new products, solutions and processes, to align with the existing Information Architectural design would be desirable

Tech skills

We use a broad range of tools, languages, and frameworks. We don’t expect you to know them all but experience or exposure with some of these (or equivalents) will set you up for success in this team;

• Minimum 10+ years of experience with expert level knowledge, with more than 2 years technical leadership experience, working with the following languages, SAS.

• Data Designing/ Dimensional modelling, Logical Data model, Conceptual Data model, Physical Data model + Performance optimization, Query tuning, troubleshooting + Cloud Certifications ​

• Experience in building and working with Spark ETL (Extract Transform Load) desirable.

• AWS (Amazon Web Services) Cloud (working experience with some of the core services EMR, EC2, S3, Auto-scaling, etc.) desirable.

• Experience with large migration programs and automating things to scale up migrations from on-prem to cloud. Hands on, Design and develop exceptionally reliable and scalable data pipelines and data platforms with comprehensive test coverage.

• Deliver data engineering solutions aligned to core concepts of data design, preparation, transformation, and load.

• Build and implement data pipelines in distributed data platforms including warehouses, databases, data lakes and cloud Lake houses to enable data predictions and models and reporting and visualization analysis via data integration tools and frameworks.

• Experience working with the following Tools:

• Source Control systems such as Git

• Build & Deployment tools such as Jenkins, TeamCity, Octopus Deploy

• Database – SQL, PL/SQL , Hadoop

• Strong experience in SAS / R / Python, Snowflake

• Monitoring tools such as Splunk, AppDynamics

• Awareness of the following Software Development Concepts

• Strong design skills around big data frameworks

• AWS Architecture

• Secure Coding Practices

Working with us:

Whether you’re passionate about customer service, driven by software engineering, or called by creativity, a career with us is for you.

We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half their time each month connecting in our Perth office. We also have many other flexible working options available including changing start and finish times, part-time arrangements and job share to name a few.

Our people bring their diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives to build a respectful, inclusive, and flexible workplace with flexible work locations. We’re looking for people who truly live our values: Care, Courage and Commitment and we’ll offer you great opportunities to develop your career with us.

If this sounds like you, apply now!

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