Data Engineer

About the role

As a member of the Data Services Team, you'll develop databases and data processing pipelines that power predictive analytics, data science, and business intelligence across SEEK. Reporting to Data Services Management, you'll collaborate with Business Analysts, Data Analysts, and development teams to design technical solutions that meet business objectives.

You'll architect data processing pipelines, data warehouses, datamarts, and dimensional models on AWS infrastructure. This includes designing database schemas, optimizing SQL queries, and developing automation scripts. You'll also support end users with data discovery, query tuning, and resolving data quality issues while ensuring platform performance and scalability.

Working closely with AI & Ontology, BI and Reporting, Strategy and Product teams, and Infrastructure teams, your success will be measured by delivering data solutions that enable informed, data-driven decisions across SEEK.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and test data processing pipelines, data warehouses, datamarts, and dimensional models.
• Create optimized database schemas, indexes, views, and SQL queries on AWS infrastructure.
• Provide technical support for data discovery, query optimization, and data quality issues. Analyze and optimize database performance, SQL queries, and ETL processes.
• Deliver operational support including incident response, CI/CD implementation, monitoring, alerting, and database administration.

Essential Skills and experience

• Proven experience with data warehouses, datamarts, and dimensional data modeling.
• Advanced SQL development and database performance optimization.
• Strong software engineering skills with proficiency in coding and scripting for data processing.
• Experience building data pipelines, ETL processes, and orchestration workflows.
• Hands-on experience with big data systems (Hadoop/EMR, Spark/Presto, MPP databases).
• Working knowledge of AWS services, particularly EMR and S3.

Desirable Skills and experience

• Machine Learning Engineering experience.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and operational support.
• Database and system administration background.

Perks and benefits

At SEEK we offer:

• Tailored career development planning 
• Support of flexible working, including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role
• Annual Performance Bonus Plan
• SEEK is committed to operating sustainably and is preparing for the impacts of climate change and the transition to a low-carbon future, and is working to minimise its environmental impacts which includes a long-term emissions reduction target of net zero by FY2050
• 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.

For this role, only those with eligible right to work will be considered.

SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.