Engineering Manager

Company DescriptionNine is Australia’s largest locally owned media company – the home of Australia’s most trusted and loved brands spanning News, Sport, Lifestyle, and Entertainment. We pride ourselves on creating the best content, accessed by consumers when and how they want – across Publishing, Broadcasting and Digital.Nine’s assets include the 9Network, major mastheads such as The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Australian Financial Review, radio stations 2GB, 3AW, 4BC and 6PR, digital properties such as nine.com.au, 9Now, 9Honey, Pedestrian.TV, Drive, subscription video platform Stan and a majority investment in Domain Group.Our Purpose: We shape culture by sparking conversations, challenging perspectives, and entertaining our communities.We bring people together by celebrating the big occasions and connecting the everyday moments. Australia belongs here. We bring our purpose to life via three shared values: We walk the talk, turn over every stone and keep it human.Job DescriptionData Engineering builds and manages the pipelines, applications and infrastructure for collecting, processing, and storing Nine’s data. We are responsible for collecting hundreds of millions of events from client devices each day and streaming them directly into our data warehouse. We extract data from the majority of Nine’s enterprise systems, centralise it in our data warehouse, and create rich data models for analysis and to inform business operations and strategy.The team is also responsible for building solutions to surface data to users including dashboards, Slack integrations and automated static reports, as well as providing data feeds to downstream systems for personalising audience experiences and commercialisation.Who are you?You are passionate about your team and their professional development. You remain engaged in their wellbeing, growing their skillset and assisting them in finding great opportunities to further themselves.You are keen and capable of being ‘hands-on’, but you make the choice when and if you should be involved. Your experience in this area allows you to provide meaningful support to your team by reviewing work and providing feedback.You contribute to a learning-oriented workplace culture, being curious about the world around you, seeking new ways to explore and bring new thinking and practices to bear within your team. You remain open to learning new technologies and techniques, and finding creative ways to leverage this knowledge to further team goals.What you’ll be doingWork with stakeholders to provide technical solutions to problems or issuesAct as a enabler, removing roadblocks to progress as neededMaintain high quality standards for yourself and software engineering practices of your teamWork with team members to guide solutions towards business and technology goalsDrive the continuous improvement of processes and ways of work to improve team capacity and capabilityDrive adoption of best practice and best in class technologyRemove single points of failure by cross-skilling staff and making sensible, strategic resourcing decisionsAlways be on the lookout for products, solutions and enhancements which address current or perceived future business problemsProvide one on one feedback, career advice and coaching for your team membersCommunicate openly and be the voice of the business within your team, keeping them informed of and working towards the business vision & goalsParticipate in hiring and other HR processes affecting your team where neededMentor team members to create a highly motivated, coherent, and cohesive culture which rewards high performanceQualifications2+ years in a team or technical leadership role managing people5+ years experience in data engineering and data warehousingStrong technical knowledge and hands-on experience with SQL and PythonExperience in designing and implementing data pipelines, ideally in AirflowExperience in dimensional data modellingExperience in Google Cloud or AWSExpert knowledge of BigQuery, Snowflake or any other major MPP databaseExperience running a team responsible for 24x7, high availability, high volume and high impact data productsSound experience in change and incident management practicesProven skills creating a high performance team environmentA strong understanding of agile development best practices including Scrum and Lean methodologiesAdditional InformationOur Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:At Nine, we are committed to fostering a workforce that embraces all aspects of diversity and inclusion and where practices are equitable to ensure our people experience a sense of belonging. From day one, you'll be encouraged to bring your whole self to work and will be supported to perform at your best. Should you require any adjustments to the recruitment process in order to equitably participate, we encourage you to advise us at the time of application.We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disabilities, and of all ages, nationalities, backgrounds and cultures.Disclaimer: We do not accept unsolicited agency resumes and are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.