Senior Data Engineer - Data Platform

About SEEK

At SEEK, we serve a noble purpose: to help people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and to help organisations succeed.

By joining us, you’ll be part of a multi-national technology business that is far-reaching with a start-up working culture that focuses on a set of collaborative values and appreciates dynamic cultures. SEEK is a place where potential meets possibility – it’s where your career aspiration and our purpose can make great things happen.

Why join us?

Be part of a multi-national tech company with strong core values to help us solve complex challenges for our customers while building a flexible, exciting career – one that could take you anywhere.

We’re looking for people who thrive in dynamic teams and enjoy tackling regular new challenges in a large-scale, modern, and agile environment. As one of Asia Pacific’s largest tech companies, you’ll contribute to multi-lingual systems, solving high-impact problems to the benefit of millions of people within the region.

Be part of a fast-growing company with a strong culture and clear purpose, innovation and strong investment in responsible AI. SEEK offers you the opportunity to be involved in impactful work and be part of a great team. Expect a great investment in your career development with access to workshops, conferences and courses while you work alongside seasoned experts.

The Role

The Senior Data Engineer is a vital part of the Data Platform Team, who provide a self-service platform and building blocks that enable teams across SEEK Asia Pacific to collaborate and work with data.

Senior Data Engineers are accountable for implementing the platform and tools, collaborating with Principal Data Engineers to analyse problems and design solutions, owning and operating the systems in production, and mentoring and supporting more junior engineers.

What You Will Do

• Design, development, testing, and operation of:
  • Frameworks for creating, testing, deploying and orchestrating data processing pipelines
  • Tools for querying, managing and monitoring data, including quality, security, lifecycle
  • Tools for managing and monitoring data systems and processes
• Deploy, operate, and support data infrastructure and services on AWS
• Maintaining platform health, ensuring that our systems are secure, reliable, resilient and cost effective.
• Growing the technical capabilities of more junior engineers through coaching and mentoring.

Essential Qualifications, Skills and Experience

• Building and operating cloud-based data processing and warehousing solutions
• Big data processing experience, preferably Spark & Hadoop
• Strong software engineering, coding & scripting
• Advanced SQL and database skills
• Logical and physical data modelling
• Ownership of deployments, infrastructure, system administration, monitoring, and operations (ie. DevOps)

Desirable Qualifications, Skills and Experience

• Data pipeline / ETL / workflow orchestration with Airflow
• AWS services, particularly EMR & S3, but also IAM, Cloudformation, Glue Catalog, Athena, Lambda, Kinesis, SNS, SQS, SSM, RDS
• Experience in Databricks (new data platform)
• Develop clean code using good practices like CI/CD, TDD, pair programming, code review
• Strong understanding of database and SQL performance optimisation
• Coding in Python, Spark, Scala
• Advanced Linux and bash scripting
• Containerisation with Docker
• Splunk and/or Datadog
• Git & Github
• Mentoring and coaching junior developers

The Team

• Reporting to the Engineering Manager – Data Platform,  APAC
• Team members: Principal, senior, and mid-level data engineers
• Key internal stakeholders include: Data Engineering teams, Analytics teams, Product Delivery teams, AI and Platform Services teams, Architecture and Practice teams, Security teams, Data Infrastructure team

At SEEK we offer:

• Tailored career development planning 
• Professional development sessions with industry leading guest speakers
• Support of flexible working, including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role
• Annual Performance Bonus Plan

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.

For this role, only those with eligible right to work will be considered.

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