Senior Data Engineer

• See your impact as you closely collaborate with the business to uplift our businesses’ data capability

• Have a large organisational level impact on REA’s Data Journey

• We have long-term partnerships with charities working to address homelessness

We're REA

REA Group (https://www.rea-group.com/about-us/about-rea-group/) is not your average digital business. From humble beginnings in a garage in Melbourne’s east in 1995, we have grown into a leading global digital business, specialising in property.

With bold and ambitious goals, we are changing the way the world experiences property. No matter where you're at on your property journey, we're here to help with every step - whether that's finding or financing your next home.

Our people are the key to our success. At the heart of everything we do, is a thriving culture centred around high performance and care. We are purpose driven and collaborative, which drives innovation and our ability to make a real impact. As such, we’re proud to be named in Australia’s “Top 5” Best Workplaces two years in a row, as well as being recognised as a Best Workplace for Women.

Where the team fits in

The Platform and Data Group is a cross-cutting technology hub, our customers are the technology teams across REA. Essential Services and Operations sits in Platform and Data and is a strongly aligned services team that supports the REA business across Infrastructure, Platform and Data aspects of technology.

We provide service, support, create platform products and tools that help the teams get their work done, including:

• Streaming data capabilities & Event Driven Architecture at REA.

• Developer Platform Tooling for multiple cloud providers

• SRE and platform observability tooling

• Monitor, support, and improve the technology landscape for REA generally, including maintenance and cost savings.

What the role is all about

This is not a typical Senior Data Engineer role. While it involves hands on technical work and the technical ability to directly support large areas of REA and their data journey, the successful candidate will be comfortable to consult with the business to understand what and how they need to move forward on their data journey. This role will involve a high level of collaboration and consultation with both technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels to help them uplift the wider businesses’ data capability. You will:

• Collaborate closely with your partner team to assess and grow their data maturity in accordance with platform standards, and data management frameworks and practices.

• Support data management practices development and federation by representing the ‘Voice of the Business’

• Writing, testing and documenting code according to REA Engineering standards and practices

• Design, build, test, deploy and maintain platform software and systems using a variety of technologies and disciplines

• Contribute to platform and product initiatives

• Collaborating on solution designs and technical problems

• Supporting less experienced team members

• Maintaining existing platform products and services, including bug fixes and "Business as Usual" feature enhancements.

• Support production systems

• Our team is distributed across four Australian states. You will be comfortable collaborating remotely and continuously looking for ways to improve our ways of working.

• Contribute to strong technical and engineering practices in the team

• Review and give feedback on pool requests and engineering documentation

Who we’re looking for

• Someone with 5+ years of hands-on experience in the industry, working in some or all of software engineering, data engineering, and platform engineering

• Working knowledge across various data management functions, including data governance, metadata management, data quality management, master data management, data modelling, data design, and data security

• Someone passionate about data technologies, services, and platforms

• A great communicator who loves collaborating with stakeholders and the tech community to build the best fit-for-purpose products

• Someone who looks at tricky situations through a solutions-focused lens

• Experience with modern software engineering practices, including test driven development, CI/CD, and DevOps

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and Cloud technologies

• Experience with or exposure to Platform Engineering concepts, such as developer tooling and experiences

• Experience working with real-time and streaming data frameworks, such as Kafka, AWS Kinesis, Flink is highly desirable

• Experience with Python, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation and CDK is highly desirable

• Knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering is highly desirable

• Experience with or knowledge of Event Driven Architecture (EDA), or real-time and streaming data systems is highly desirable

The REA experience

The physical, mental, emotional and financial health of our people is something we’ll never stop caring about. This is a place to learn and grow. We’re committed to your development – both professionally and personally. Your experience with us is something we take seriously.

We offer:

• A hybrid and flexible approach to working

• Flexible parental leave offering for primary and secondary carers

• Programs to support mental, emotional, financial and physical health & wellbeing

• Our Because We Care program offers employees volunteering leave, community grants, matched payroll giving and our Community Café donates 100% of revenue to charity.

• Hack Days so you can bring your big ideas to life

• Performance recognition programs because hard work should never go unnoticed

Our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

We are committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity, equity and inclusion. We believe teams with diverse ideas and experiences are more creative, more effective and fuel disruptive thinking - be it cultural and ethnic backgrounds, gender identity, disability, age, sexual orientation, or any other identity or lived experience. We know diverse teams are critical to maintaining our success and driving new business opportunities. If you've got the skills, dedication and enthusiasm to learn but don't necessarily meet every single point on the job description, please still get in touch.

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