Senior Azure Data Engineer

• Opportunity to work with the 5th largest General Insurer in Australia
• Open for Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane candidates - Remote/ Hybrid work flexibility
• Great opportunity to work in a green field environment.

About Hollard

Hollard Insurance is part of the Hollard Group of Companies and a top 5 General Insurer in Australia and New Zealand. We underwrite a broad range of general insurance products, including motor, home, contents, business, and pet. Hollard’s unrelenting focus on diversity and inclusion, collaborative partnerships, and delivering great customer outcomes is at the heart of its business model, driven by its purpose of “Using our expertise, integrity and humanity to go further, together" 

Your role

 Reporting to the Data Engineer Practice Manger you will be required to design, build, and support the delivery of modern Data Engineering solutions in the Azure data platform, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams within Hollard, including the Infrastructure DevOps team, solution architects, subject matter experts, data modelers, etc.

• Maintain, support, and monitor existing production Azure Synapse Data Engineering pipelines, PySpark notebooks, data platform lake house architecture and Azure SQL ODS storage and Stored Procedures, CICD pipelines to make sure all data loads on data platform meet data quality standards and business SLA requirements.
• Participate and contribute to Azure data platform architecture design, data modelling, gathering and analysis of data requirements; understand document, communicate and, build appropriate solutions.
• Participate, design, build, deliver, and document data platform related projects with latest Azure data analytics technologies. 
• Promote Data Engineering best practices with CICD YAML pipelines and automation.

Your knowledge and experience 

• Must have minimum 10 years of experience in design, build and support of Data Engineering pipelines in the data warehousing, BI analytics, and/or ML space, which includes 5+ year work experience using Azure data analytics tool such as Data Factory, Synapse, Azure SQL, data lake gen2, key vault.
• Microsoft Azure Data Engineering Associate (DP-203) certification is mandatory.
• Extensive experience in implementing modern lake house architecture on Azure Data Lake Gen2 and Apache Spark using PySpark is required.
• Strong data modelling knowledge and physical implementation experiences with Dimensional and/or Data Vaults methodologies.
• Strong knowledge and extensive experience in working in an Agile framework with CI/CD using modern DevOps / Data Ops integrated processes with YAML pipelines. 
• Knowledge of machine learning, MLOps, AI is desirable.

Working at Hollard

At Hollard you will be part of a supportive, valued and committed team. You will enjoy a challenging and rewarding work environment, career progression opportunities and great staff benefits and corporate discounts. We also offer many benefits to support your professional development and wellbeing including:

Professional and technical development opportunities

• Flexible start and finish times, work from home, and other flexible work from home options to suit your lifestyle
• Paid parental and partner leave
• Additional leave options, including 5 well-being days each year
• Generous employee insurance discounts
• Novated lease options
• Corporate employee discounts from various retailers
• Wellbeing benefits e.g., vaccinations, health insurance discounts, mental wellness training professional memberships, EAP

Hollard is unapologetically committed to creating a workplace that values your diversity with a true sense of inclusion. We actively seek to hire for your different lived experiences (including as relate to disability, ethnicity, faith, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, gender diversity, sexual orientation, age, neurodiversity). These enhance cognitive diversity and psychological safety in our workplace for everyone.

Hollard proudly promotes flexible work including remote work, non-traditional work patterns, and work-family balance.

If you don’t meet all our expected criteria, we strongly encourage you to apply anyway! Our priority is to hire the most talented people we can from all walks of life even if not all our above boxes are ticked.

NO AGENCIES. We will not require any support from Recruitment Agencies and kindly request that no unsolicited resumes are sent to Hollard employees in relation to this role or others. Only direct applications will be considered.

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