Data Engineer optimizing data integrations for Retail industry. Combine multiple data sources and design ETL workflows while maintaining data quality and security.
About the role
- Lead Data Engineer providing technical expertise and mentoring at Westpac. Ensuring platform stability and compliance while driving engineering practices within the squad.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership across the EME squad, guiding engineering practices, solution design, and platform stability.
- Ensure EME platforms, data products, and pipelines remain reliable, secure, compliant, and aligned with organisational risk and regulatory requirements.
- Lead vulnerability assessments, patching, upgrades, and service accreditation activities to ensure platform readiness and continued ITSA compliance.
- Drive the resolution of complex production issues, including coordinating on-call coverage, early life support and critical incident response.
- Translate business and architecture requirements into scalable technical designs, ensuring consistency with wider Technology patterns and standards.
- Maintain and improve service operations by ensuring SLAs, monitoring, and system health metrics are consistently met.
- Set squad level standards for engineering quality, tooling, coding practices, documentation, and deployment processes.
- Mentor engineers, fostering technical growth, capability uplift, and a culture of excellence across the squad.
- Drive prioritisation of squad work in partnership with Service Owners, Product Owners, and Scrum Masters, ensuring transparent negotiation on scope, timelines, and technical dependencies.
- Lead problem investigations, rootcause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives to enhance platform stability and performance.
- Manage relationships with internal stakeholders, thirdparty vendors, and platform partners to ensure the delivery of highquality outcomes.
- Champion Agile ways of working, contributing to planning, refinement, delivery ceremonies, and squad alignment.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in data engineering, platform engineering or a related technical discipline within a complex corporate environment.
- Hands on experience with IDMC especially with CDQ, CDGC and Administrator services.
- Deep expertise in patterns, data platform technologies, and modern engineering toolsets.
- Knowledge of data encryption techniques and standards together with secure software practices.
- Experience in using CI/CD, software pipelines and containerisation.
- Experience with logging and monitoring solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to assess new technologies, review vendor solutions, and recommend improvements to existing engineering approaches.
- Proven capability in diagnosing and resolving complex technical issues throughout the application lifecycle.
- Experience contributing to and delivering major platform or data engineering initiatives.
- Strong understanding of quality assurance, testing frameworks, and continuous improvement methodologies.
- Tertiary qualifications in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related discipline, with relevant technical certifications preferred.
- Experience building strong working relationships with suppliers and managing vendor performance.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor, support and uplift engineering capability within teams.
- Comfortable working within Agile delivery frameworks and modern DevOps practices
Benefits
- 4 weeks standard holiday + 5 additional days of wellbeing leave to support you to be your best
- Additional purchased leave options up to 4 weeks per year
- Banking benefits, insurance discounts and superannuation scheme
- Growth and development – we provide opportunities for development and promote internal mobility
- Recognition - we recognise and reward our star performers
- School holiday subsidy - help you balance work and family during school holiday
- 2 Volunteer days per year
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