Lead Data Engineer

Why OneDigital?

Are you interested in joining the team at Wesfarmers OneDigital?

Good call. We’re an exciting digital enterprise with big ideas, supporting some of Australia’s most trusted and iconic brands. We’re well on our way towards bringing the best of digital and data possibilities together to create more personalised shopping experiences for customers across our retail brands.

Working in a collaborative team with a diverse and deep set of skills and experience, you will learn, collaborate, and co-create to achieve great things.

• You’ll have ownership of your role, which will allow you to find the right balance between stretch and sustainability, work, and life.
• Culture of comradery and collaboration - OneTeam
• Plus, all the tools and learning you need, the tone is set for you to shine and succeed.  
• We know that diversity fosters greater innovation and better customer connection, so we strive to create a team where everyone feels like they belong. We support diversity, inclusion and we are a gender-neutral organisation. We celebrate individuals at their core, so they shine to their best.

The purpose of this role is to be a senior technical authority and people leader within the OneData engineering team, this role bridges people management, strategic thinking with hands-on execution and delivery. You will collaborate closely with other lead engineers and managers to shape and implement the broader data and engineering strategy. It involves taking ownership end to end for projects, guiding the design and operation of data systems, and ensuring their alignment with business needs.

What you’ll be doing

• Responsible for leading and empowering a team of data engineers and supporting their career and skills development.
• Coordinate and lead the implementation in a broad range of data engineering initiatives, from requirement gathering through to release.
• Define technical solution strategies in line with business goals and oversee development to ensure quality, security, and timeliness.
• Establish and enforce coding standards, CI/CD practices, and data governance rules to maintain high-quality data pipelines and robust data structures across the team.
• Proactively identify, recommend and drive improvements to existing platform architecture (e.g., pipeline patterns, tooling, observability) and engineering to optimize performance and reduce costs.
• Serve as a supporting technical escalation point, guiding the team through complex troubleshooting and solution design scenarios.
• Work with product team, data scientists, analysts, and other engineering squads to translate business needs into feasible technical solutions, aligning to best practices and overall OneData strategy.
• Support and collaborate with the OneData engineering manager to plan resourcing, timelines, future roadmap items and engineering or architecture strategy, proactively flagging up risks and dependencies.
• Ensure data solutions adhere to privacy, security, and compliance standards, integrating these principles into pipeline design and data models.
• Oversee monitoring, alerting, and incident response measures to ensure the reliability and availability of data services. Supporting the measuring of key OneData and Data Engineering data ops metrics.
• Be a leading exemplar and contributor to general culture and engineering subculture at OneData

What you'll bring to the table

• Degree in a relevant field (e.g. computer science, software engineering, information systems) or a combination of industry training and practical experience
• 6+ years of industry experience in data warehousing /engineer systems design and development, preferably in a large corporate environment
• Experience with leading technical teams and people management
• Confident demonstrating agile product management processes
• Demonstrated experience in technical product management, software development management and/or solutions design domains
• Comfortable with a hands-on role through the full data lifecycle of design, development, delivery and ongoing support.
• Proficient in SQL, Python, Jinja, DBT, Airflow and Snowflake (or similar equivalents)
• Be an excellent written/spoken communicator, with strong interpersonal skills across a diverse group of stakeholders in particular conveying complex technical concepts.
• Demonstrated ability to influence architectural or engineering decisions and create alignment among various stakeholder levels.
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity, making decisions with incomplete information and adapting to shifting priorities in a fast paced environment.

Join The Team

We’re continuing to bring the best talent and skills under one roof, working together and across disciplines to build amazing experiences for our customers. We continuously feed off each other’s insights, talents and capabilities, because we are a business that thrives on open collaboration and a shared vision of positive, fun and rewarding experiences.

Team Benefits – just to name a few!

To support you at work, what you value in life and in the community, our team member benefits include:

• Convenient city location
• Stocked kitchen with fruit and breakfast items
• Modern and spacious end of trip facilities
• Access to the latest technologies
• An annual budget to support your choice of learning
• Extended parental leave (16 weeks for primary carers), and paid volunteer days
• Flexible working – we balance working together with working flexibly
• People-focussed culture that celebrates achievements big and small
• OnePass subscription and Team Member discount card.

Next steps

If this sounds like your next career move, then click on the ‘Apply’ button now! Please note that we may commence interviewing candidates prior to the application closing date.