Data Engineer

About us:

We are proudly part of a privately owned global group of insurance and online comparison related businesses, with approximately 50 offices and 10,000 employees. In Australia, the Group includes trusted and well-known brands Budget Direct, Ozicare, Chasing Cars, iSelect and Compare the Market. In late 2024, iSelect and Compare the Market formed a new Aggregation business within the group and now support millions of Australians to compare and buy their personal finance and household products such as insurance, energy, and loans.

How you fit:

As a Data Engineer working on the data platform, and in collaboration across CTM’s business and technology stakeholders you will use your experience to build data pipelines, enhance frameworks and build utilities on the Cloud Data Platform in a manner that aligns to metadata driven, automation-based frameworks and highly scalable systems.

What you do:

• Align build of data engineering solutions in accordance with data architecture and component designs.
• Development of robust end to end data pipelines 
• Develop, test, and deploy code to a high standard.
• Release planning, implementation, and code reviews.
• Managing delivery risks & meeting deadlines.
• Work with Architect to support planned data architecture, data governance, data quality, master data and metadata management.
• Work with BI developers and reporting team to optimise the DWH for reporting and analysis.
• Monitor data quality and build jobs to log and report on issues.
• Develop data integration between production systems
• Gain domain knowledge of Compare the Market’s business and data.

What you need:

Qualifications:  

• Minimum Bachelor’s Degree qualified in Computer Science, IT or a relevant discipline

Experience & Skills: 

• Experience with Cloud EDWs (AWS and/or GCP), Data Lakes, Information Governance Suites (Lineage, Glossary, Reference Data).
• Proven development experience in Python, and ETL tools in addition to data modelling skills.
• Experience with deployment of data workloads using CI/CD tooling.
• Experience building metadata driven highly automated solutions very well regarded.
• Experience with Databricks well regarded.
• Additional experience in traditional on prem EDW / ETL environments well regarded.
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in a similar role, a minimum of 5 years’ experience in IT/data
• Understanding of end-to-end Data & Insights life cycle is a must
• Good communication and business engagement
• Previous experience working in an Agile environment using tools such as Jira and Confluence.

What's in it for you:

• Vibrant and social community who have annual celebrations, family fun days and regular events. 
• Enjoy flexible work arrangements, including the option of one day working from home each week or a 9-day fortnight. 
• Enjoy additional leave days - ‘ME’ leave and ‘Volunteer Day’ leave. 
• Employee discounts on Car, Home, Travel insurance. 
• Income protection insurance provided to support you in the event of non-work-related illness or injury. 

If you are someone who fosters team spirit, has resilience and aspires to continue learning and developing their skills to drive commercial outcomes, you will have tremendous success in helping us achieve our progressive growth agendas. High energy levels and a love of having fun are also important to working in this energetic business.

Interested? We’d love to hear from you! 

At Compare the Market and iSelect and we’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and we embrace diversity.  

This role is available to candidates with unlimited Australian working rights only. Sponsorship is not available.  

Compare the Market and iSelect are committed to protecting your privacy. All applications and personal information are kept confidential and securely stored in line with Australian privacy laws, used only for recruitment purposes, and not shared with third parties outside the Auto & General Holdings Group without your consent.