Data Platform Engineer

Who is Transmax?

Transmax is a transport solutions provider of the ITS platform, STREAMS. We exist to improve people’s quality of life and helps move millions of commuters around Australian road networks every day. We partner with customers to deliver creative solutions that optimise transport networks and support safer and more reliable road journeys.

It’s an exciting time in our history as we modernise our core STREAMS product and work with customers to enable the future of mobility.

About the role:

Transmax has grown significantly over the last 18 months, and we are not slowing down!

We’re in the next exciting stage of our growth phase which is why we are now recruiting for a Data Platform Engineer to play a vital role in our company’s future.

Working closely with our empowered product team you will contribute to conceiving and creating an ITS Data Platform that delivers highly performant data focusing on:

• Ingestion, cleansing and fusion
• Analysis, reporting
• Real-time dashboards, predictive analytics and machine learning
• Strategic response capabilities built around extensible long-term data repositories and industry open data integrations.

Your day-to-day will include:

• Work with internal technical and product teams to achieve sprint goals, ensuring delivered quality of functionality, useability and performance.
• Work with data scientists and analysts to consider data source, lineage, quality, stewardship, security and privacy governance, data lifecycle, and associated metadata.
• Undertake system and software design, development, integration, configuration, maintenance and test automation activities to implement data pipelines, transformations, repositories and APIs compliant with an approved technical reference architecture.
• Develop end-to-end data pipelines to transform data into useful, actionable information, ensuring appropriate data validation methods and data analysis tools are provided.
• Resolving data engineering challenges or improving the quality of existing processes and commercial outcomes.

About You:

You will be preferably tertiary-level qualified in Software Engineering, Information Technology or Computer Science, with at least 3 years of industry experience in designing, building, and supporting data systems.

You will be an empathetic team player displaying excellent problem solving and communication skills and passionate about data, analytical techniques, uncovering insights and empowering users!

Being this role is an intermediate level you will take on some accountability and decision making in day-to-day activities, however, will escalate more complex issues through to a senior level within the organisation, as required.

Your toolkit for success:

• Experience with working in a software-as-a-service environment that utilises DevOps and SRE practices to continuously develop, test, deploy and support scalable, highly-available software services.
• Demonstrated experience in developing data lakes and data marts (including ingestion pipelines and transformations) and in integrating industry-leading analytics, reporting, dashboard and API toolsets and related technologies, for consumer access.
• Hands-on experience with utilising extensible Data Platform framework – Databricks is essential.
  Proficiency with associated data processing technologies (such as Apache Spark).
• Competent with Python to solve data engineering tasks (including hands-on experience with PySpark and Python notebooks), and with other appropriate programming languages (such as C#, JavaScript, Java or Scala).
• Comfortability working in both Windows and Linux environments, and with utilising public cloud infrastructure and services, such as offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Experience with relational (e.g. PostgreSQL) and non-relational (e.g. Elasticsearch) database technologies and query syntax, and optimisation of query performance.
• Experience with source code control and CI/CD pipeline technologies (such as GitLab), with some exposure to IaaC concepts and tools.
• Be adept at understanding and utilising internet protocols and application interface technologies such as REST, AMQP, JSON, geoJSON, Parquet, XML and Protobuf.

What does Transmax offer?

We offer:

• A competitive salary
• A high-trust, high-empowering, openly supportive working environment & culture
• WFH options (2 days in office per week)
• Uncapped training budgets to support your career development
• Employee Assistance Program with access up to 10 sessions
• A recently renovated office in Milton (with some pretty great views, if you ask us)
• Corporate private health discounts through Bupa
• Flexible working hours & arrangements (the right to disconnect & enjoy life!)
• Lots of support for your career plans and advancement
• An environment where you’re encouraged to succeed.

With our culture of recognition, career development, and a supportive and stimulating and satisfying work environment - your next career chapter is waiting for you at Transmax.

If you’re interested in pursuing this opportunity, please apply by submitting your CV and a brief cover letter outlining your experience and suitability for the role. We would love to hear from you!

Successful applicants will be subject to a National Criminal History Check and a Qualification check.
Applicants must hold full working rights within Australia.
We do not accept unsolicited agency resumes and are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.