Lead Cloud Data Engineer

Our Purpose

Reporting to the Cloud Data Engineer – Principal Data Engineer this is a fabulous opportunity to collaborate closely with business SMEs, Principal Engineers and Leads Senior Data Engineers and Data Engineers to design, build and deploy data solutions to enable effective and efficient value realisation from EnergyAustralia’s data. As a senior member of the Data Engineering discipline this role, in addition to its core focus of data ingestion and integration delivery you will lead the solution design, build, execution and maintenance of a data centre of excellence, which will actively contribute to the functional capability of data service across our fully budgeted Capability roadmap to include frameworks, patterns, pipelines, toolset configuration, stakeholder management and broader team upskilling coaching sessions.

Be Impactful when you are applying…

At our company, everything will be at scale, so you’ll need experience handling large scale builds and deployments, complicated architecture that covers microservices, containers and clusters within Cloud. You will need to understand the broader scope, keeping an eye on many moving parts that is typical of large-scale programs of work. This is a huge opportunity for the right candidate willing to rise to the occasion – these roles are urgent, so they will get snatched up quickly, please reach out if you are interested in this kind of opportunity.

This role will be instrumental to deliver our technology solution roadmap by utilising your experience and skills in the following areas;

• Significant experience minimum 15 years in Cloud Data Engineering, design and exposure to multiple cloud data platforms in a similar “Lead” level position
• Superior communication and influencing skills working across a matrix organisation and functional departments
• Tertiary qualification in Bachelor or Master degree on IT or equivalent field compliment your industry experience
• Experience (and relevant certifications) in AWS cloud data environments including tools such as S3, EMR/EC2, Lambda, Glue, Airflow, Redshift, Databricks, Talend, Tableau, PowerBI, Kafka/streaming technologies, Spark, + Azure DevOps
• Expert big data and query language skills such as SQL, Java, Python, R, PySpark

• Experience establishing, curating, and maintaining Logical and Physical data models
• Experience designing, developing, and publishing data ETL pipelines

What EnergyAustralia can offer you!

At EnergyAustralia, we are committed to providing an inclusive culture so our employees can bring their whole selves to work and have a sense of belonging that’s a key reason we were “Awarded Winner 2021 Best Place To Work List”. As an employee you can enjoy some of our benefits across;

• Employee discount on your electricity and gas, discounts on major brands and products
• Volunteer days off to help charities to make a difference through volunteering and workplace giving schemes
• Energise Program whereby flexibility that is team centric enabling all individuals to agree and succeed tighter
• Access LinkedIN Learning in-house free training platform for professional development
• Excellent company culture, down-to-earth and friendly organisation – be authentic, bring your whole self to work!
• Genuine career development – we have an internal mobility program where our employees come first
• 2 paid recharge days 
• Health and well-being program – online yoga, palliates and Employee Assistance Program
• State-of-the-art brand new Melbourne office building, 3-5 min walk from Southern Cross station

Ready to make a difference @ EnergyAustralia – welcoming your application!

If you share our passion for making customers a priority, doing the right thing, leading change and want to be part of an organisation focused on making a positive impact, click the ‘Apply’ button to submit your application. For a confidential discussion, please contact Katie Le Page – Talent Acquisition Leader for EnergyAustralia via email [email protected]

We’re committed to providing an inclusive culture so our employees can bring their whole selves to work and have a sense of belonging. From our PRISM network that creates a positive culture for LGBTI employees to our Reconciliation Action Plan that has commitments to strengthen relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and organisations, it’s a workplace where everyone’s welcome.