AddressCompany Description
About SEEK
SEEK's portfolio of diverse businesses make a positive impact on a truly global scale. Our purpose is to help people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and help organisations succeed. We create world-class technology solutions to connect more people to relevant employment, education, small business and volunteer opportunities. We have a culture of high-performance in our workplaces and celebrate the diversity of our employees who contribute to the success of our organisation.
Life at SEEK
SEEK's purpose is at the centre of everything we do. Our SEEK, which defines the way we work, is all about what makes us unique and a little bit different. Passion, Team, Delivery and Future are our principles that drive innovation and creativity. SEEK strives to support employee wellbeing by providing an amazing experience at work which led us to being named AFR BOSS Top 10 Best Place to Work 2023 In Tech (third year in a row). We are proud to work in an environment that's inclusive where everyone's unique ideas, experiences and perspectives are valued.
Our award-winning head office in Cremorne (just a 4 min walk from Richmond station) provides an exceptional space to collaborate with colleagues. The building provides sweeping views of the city, a games area, sit and stand desks at every workstation, modern end-of-trip facilities and Thursday night drinks which gives our people an opportunity to connect in a social setting.
About the role
As a Senior Data Engineer you will play vital part of the AI & Analytics Data Products team, who build high-quality data assets that enable teams across SEEK AIPS (AI Platform Services) and Analytics to gain insight and improve experience for both people and organisations.
Senior Data Engineers are accountable for implementing the data pipelines and infrastructures, collaborating with Staff Data Engineers and Data Modellers to analyse problems and design solutions, owning and operating the systems in production, and mentoring and supporting more junior engineers.
Responsibilities
Design, development, testing, and operation of:
Big data processing pipelines
Tools for managing and monitoring data systems and processes, including quality, security, lifecycle
Deploy, operate, and support data infrastructure and services on Databricks and AWS
Maintaining system health, ensuring that our systems are secure, reliable, resilient and cost effective.
Growing the technical capabilities of more junior engineers through coaching and mentoring.
Qualifications
Skills and experience
- Building and operating cloud-based data processing and warehousing solutions
- Big data processing experience, preferably Databricks, EMR, Spark & Hadoop
- Strong software engineering, coding & scripting
- Advanced SQL and database skills
- Logical and physical data modelling
- Ownership of deployments, infrastructure, system administration, monitoring, and operations (ie. DevOps)
- Data pipeline / ETL / workflow orchestration with Airflow
- Databricks platform, particularly Spark Structured Streaming, Delta Lakes & Unity Catalog
- AWS services, particularly EMR & S3, but also IAM, Cloudformation, CDK, Lambda, SNS, SQS, SSM
- Kafka technologies, particularly KStreams DSL, processor and producer/consumer APIs
- Develop clean code using good practices like CI/CD, TDD, pair programming, code review
- Experience with Splunk and/or Datadog
Additional Information
Permanent Perks
At SEEK we offer:
- Annual Performance Bonus Plan
- Support of flexible working, including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role.
- Paid and unpaid leave benefits including Personal Flexi Days and Volunteer Days, as well as the opportunity to purchase additional leave
- Support for parents with 14 weeks paid primary carers leave and 2 weeks paid leave for partners
- The opportunity to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per financial year
At SEEK, we are passionate about fostering a culture of inclusion and wellbeing that embraces and values the diversity of our people. We are a purpose driven business that works with heart.
We know teams with diverse ideas, experiences and perspectives are more creative and are critical to ensuring effective delivery and innovating to enable our future success. As such, we welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences, especially as they relate to gender, sexual identity, culture, faith, disability and life stages. If you have the skills, curiosity and an adaptable mindset but don't meet every responsibility or qualification listed in this advertisement, please still get in touch with us.
Should you require any specific support or adjustments throughout the recruitment process and beyond, please advise us and we will be happy to assist.
SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees
