Senior Data Engineer

Company Description

Are you ready to be a big part of something big? 

At carsales, we're all about making buying and selling a great experience. For over 25 years we’ve been evolving with the new economy to help people choose how they move today and tomorrow. 

When it comes to your career, we want to provide big opportunities to help you make a big impact. But for this to be possible, we strive to feel small. Small enough to quickly change tack, small enough to learn from different departments and small enough to connect authentically with leadership. 

With a vision to be the global leader in online vehicle marketplaces. We transform how people buy and sell across the globe. We discover new ideas and make them happen. We continue to grow, and we continue to evolve – and we aren’t afraid to make big bets.

Not something you’d expect from one of the country’s biggest tech companies, is it? 

The Pricing squad plays a critical role in evaluating automotive prices, enabling our buyers and sellers to transact and advertise at competitive market rates. Powered by our advanced pricing algorithms, the team helps ensure a seamless buying and selling experience across our marketplace.

We embrace a hybrid way of working – mixing working from home with the energy and connection that comes from being together in the office. We champion flexibility and have many policies, procedures and leave options to support flexible work.  

What’s on offer: 

• A place where you can move your career forward, where you’ll be continuously backed to make new ideas happen, and the chance to do work that makes real, significant impact in the world. 
• We’re proud to be recognised as one of Australia’s Best Workplaces™ by Great Place to Work®, a Family Friendly Workplace, a WORK180 endorsed employer for women and WGEA Employer of Choice for Gender Equality.
• The support of a highly engaged, high-performing team including a leadership team that’s you’ll actually have face time with. 
• 24 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers, four weeks paid secondary caregivers leave, six weeks paid gender transition leave. 

Job Description

What you’ll do: 

• Share expertise into design, implement and improve data models using best practices and fit for business requirements
• Develop and support solutions that deliver the design and implementation of data modelling best practices including collaboration within the team, brainstorm and conclude conceptual, logical, and physical models
• Collaborate and connect with stakeholders from across lines of business to elicit requirements and translate them to data design artifacts
• Leading collaborations across data product disciplines to develop, optimise and maintain data pipelines and solutions
• Engages actively in facilitating team-based problem-solving sessions and contribute to the development of best practices
• Initiating and nurturing effective working relationships, acting as a trusted advisor on product analytics and commercial data solutions

Qualifications

What are we looking for? 

• Proven ability to apply strong software engineering principles such as modularisation, abstraction, and testing to data infrastructure and tooling
• Deep experience designing and building data ingestion pipelines and serving layers across cloud platforms and third-party data providers
• Data engineering experience including expertise in data modelling, transformation, and optimisation, grounded in a solid analytical discipline
• Hands-on experience architecting and integrating RESTful APIs and working within modern microservices architectures
• Extensive experience in Python and have working knowledge of .NET, with experience managing high-volume pipelines on cloud-based data platforms
• Skilled in designing and building software/pipelines using cloud services such as AWS EC2, Glue, Lambda, SNS, SQS, IAM, ECS or equivalent

Additional Information

A few other things we want to let you know about... 

• carsales is an equal opportunity employer and we pride ourselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage everyone of all ages, genders and backgrounds to apply. If you’re a candidate with a disability or you’ll need some adjustments to be at your best, let us know how we can provide you with additional support. 

• We know how important keeping that balance between work/life is and have a range of flexible working options on offer, including part time work. We are open to this conversation during our recruitment process - if you want to know more just ask. 

• We are a proud Circle Back Initiative Employer which means we are committed to responding to every job applicant. 

• Successful candidates joining the carsales family are required to undergo a National Police Record check and must have full-time Australian working rights on an ongoing basis. 

So come and join our team - because every role is a big role in our plans to go big.