Principal Data Engineer

• Drive the technical vision for existing data assets and new cloud data platform
• Empower and guide a high performing, collaborative team
• Work within our Data Warehousing Chapter

We’re never just satisfied with how things are – because we know how things could be. And it’s our expert Technology team who forge ahead every day to make those ‘what ifs’ a reality.

Welcome to a place where you can chase real progress and drive real change. And that includes your own career. Being a part of Technology at Suncorp Group means being switched on, endlessly curious and always adaptable. In return, you’ll be supported to bring your own ideas to the table and challenge conventions – with the aim of making life a little brighter, simpler, and better for our customers and each other.

As a Principal Data Engineer in the Data and Enterprise Technology domain, you will offer strong leadership and drive the technical vision and capability of the Data Warehousing Chapter. This will be achieved through your superior skills in data analysis, design, modelling, development, maintenance, and ongoing support to meet the technology needs of the Groups.

You will have a passion for building robust and innovative data assets, collaborating with world-class external and internal Data Engineering experts, and contributing to the continuous improvement of our work processes. This presents a great opportunity to enhance your Data Engineering skills further and introduce new techniques and work methods to a collaborative team environment.

What you'll do

• Build data assets that are aligned to DET strategy and architectural roadmaps
• Promote and champion Data Platform and Engineering ways of working via continuous build, continuous integration and continuous delivery
• Lead detailed solution design, data modelling, estimation and specification process
• Promote test driven development and automated unit test frameworks within the teams
• Promote and champion Automated Deployment via Jenkins
• Coordination of deployment and release activities for the team
• Develop Data Engineering standards, implementation patterns and how to guides
• Challenge the development team on their delivery of quality, unit test coverage and assistance in the creation of development artefacts
• Contribute to risk analysis and utilise that information to plan development activities
• Identify technical and process improvements that will benefit the business
• Optimising code and ensuring we are getting the best out of the Data Platform
• Foster a safe, innovative and results driven culture

What you'll bring

• Tertiary qualification in Computer Science, or Information Technology
• Minimum 10 years’ experience within Data Engineering with minimum 2 years in a similar role
• Strong experience in leading Data Warehousing projects including data migration, data integration, ETL/ELT and reporting projects
• Experience with using SQL, and DBT core or cloud for data transformation
• Experience developing data assets and optimising data pipelines in cloud data warehouses including AWS Redshift and DataBricks
• Comfortable working within conceptual, logical and physical data model following Data Vault and Kimball data modelling patterns
• Experience in data migration, building, enhancing and maintaining cloud data warehousing
• Experience in performance tuning and optimising data objects for analysis and reporting
• Ability to analyse data and source system to identify root cause and ability on problem solving
• Ability to rapidly acquire an understanding of complex business problems/requirements to develop solutions and designs, regardless of existing areas of expertise or specialisation
• Experience with Python / Pyspark is preferable
• Strong skills and experience in cloud environments, especially AWS
• Experience supporting high availability production systems is desirable

If this opportunity sounds like the challenge, you have been looking for, please apply online today. For further information regarding this position, please contact luke.morandini@suncorp.com.au