Are you interested in joining the dream team at Wesfarmers OneDigital?
Good call. We’re an exciting new digital enterprise with big ideas, supporting some of Australia’s most trusted and iconic brands focussed on making lives better for people all around Australia. 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.
The Data team at OnePass designs, builds and runs key capabilities accelerating the data strategy for OnePass at OneDigital. The team is responsible for establishing data platform capability, to be adopted by other internal teams, supporting the creation of data products, solving a range of business needs.
We embed progressive data management standards and engineering best practices into platform capabilities, resulting in reliable, efficient, governed and scalable handling of data. The team is composed of data engineering and analytics engineering professionals, and we are on the lookout for individuals passionate about transforming data into valuable and loved data products.
In this role, you'll get to…
Be responsible for optimising data platform engineering and architecture, as well as designing and building data products used by and co-created with cross functional teams focused on customer outcomes.
You will help evolve our data platform which is built around technologies like Snowflake, Kafka, Airflow, dbt – and will need continuous improvement as data use cases grow. This will involve closely working with other internal specialised tech teams such as platform engineering and security.
As part of your role you will:
- Contribute to the data platform product roadmap
- Influence and adopt architectural and engineering principles and ways of working
- Design and implement ingestion and ETL/ELT for batch, micro-batch and real-time data sources
- Work with key stakeholders in curating data products that meet functional / non-functional business requirements
- Participate in the development and delivery of appropriate leading practice data and analytical initiatives in an agile, pragmatic way, reflecting business needs, constraints and KPIs (e.g. time, quality, value & cost)
- Design and implement a strategic and specific data architecture, patterns and pipelines that supports large-scale analytics
- Develop and maintain data platform and product documentation and definitions as part of ways of working
- Establish and implement engineering principles and practices such as version management, documentation, testing and CI/CD to enable both quality and speed
- Help define and manage best practices for data engineering, including alignment with governance and data management
- Inform build vs buy decisions around data platform capability
- Anticipate complex issues, challenges, and opportunities with regards to alignment and implementation of vision, strategy, policies, and processes
- Work with stakeholders including Data, Technology and Customer areas to assist with data platform and data product related technical issues and support their data solution needs
- Collaborate with internal data and analytics community to strive for greater functionality in the Digital Ecosystem’s data systems
- Coach and mentor team members where applicable
- Learn from your team while you share your knowledge adding your very own splash of colour to our palette and make it fun. At OneDigital It is part of everyone’s core role to ensure that no one is left behind and that everyone is enjoying their journey as they evolve!
To shine on day one, what you need to have:
- Hands-on experience building production data pipelines using one or more frameworks such as Airflow, Kafka
- Programming experience - Proficiency in Python or SQL and interest in learning other languages as selected by the team (e.g. Go, Scala)
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence decision making
- Expertise in data modelling and transformation frameworks (we love dbt!)
- Well-developed communication and influencing skills
- Ability to anticipate issues, challenges, and opportunities and manage them accordingly
- Experience working within agile and lean methodologies
It's a bonus, but not mandatory, if you have:
- 4+ years technology experience in data engineering, software engineering or related fields
- 3+ years exposure in a large complex data environment
- Working knowledge around data mining, machine learning, MLOps, natural language processing, or information retrieval
- A sense of humour to add to our existing squad or a hobby that you can engage the team to join you in! Why not?
Why OneDigital?
- Working in a community of industry-leading innovators 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.
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.
- For more information on OneDigital, OnePass and OneData, please check out our careers page https://www.livehire.com/careers/wesfarmers-digital/jobs