Data Engineer

Primary DetailsTime Type: Full time

Worker Type: Employee

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• Location: Sydney or Parramatta
• 6-month fixed term contract
• Full-time hours with Hybrid working

The Opportunity

We are seeking a Data Engineer to play a key role in managing our data and analytics workflow. As a Data Engineer, you will collaborate across multidisciplinary teams and product areas, leveraging your expertise to build and develop advanced data pipelines across a breath of business areas.

Your new role:

• Design, implement, and optimise robust data pipeline architecture to guarantee accurate, timely data ingestion, transformation, and storage across diverse databases and systems.
• Conduct in-depth analysis to identify, acquire, cleanse, and manipulate data from a variety of operational systems and our analytics platform.
• Assemble intricate data sets tailored to evolving business objectives and proactively maintain key data features to maximise model precision.
• Build, maintain, and enhance data pipelines that support seamless ingestion, transformation, and deployment of data products.

About you:

You are a motivated professional with proven experience in data management, architecture, and end-to-end solution delivery. Your background includes expertise in:

• Data Mapping and data Modeling (3NF, Star-schema, Big Tables, Columnar, Key-value pair, and JSON documents).
• Experience in modern data warehouses, ETL workflows, batch processing, and parallel computing including using SQL and Python to manage, transform and automate data pipeline processes. 
• A deep understanding of Data and Analytics best practices, along with strong data management or quality capabilities to underpin analytic reporting.
• Prior success building both real-time and batch data pipelines and streams completes your profile.

About QBE 

We can never really predict what’s around the corner, but at QBE we’re asking the right questions to enable a more resilient future – helping those around us build strength and embrace change to their advantage.  

We’re an international insurer that’s building momentum towards realising our vision of becoming the most consistent and innovative risk partner.  

And our people will be at the centre of our success. We’re proud to work together, and encourage each other enable resilience for our customers, our environment, our economies and our communities.  

With more than more than 13,000 people working across 27 countries, we’re big enough to make a real impact, but small enough to provide a friendly workplace, where people are down-to-earth, passionate and kind. 

We believe this is our moment – what if it was yours too?  

Your career at QBE — let’s make it happen!  

Benefits  

We offer a range of benefits to help provide holistic support for your work life, whatever your circumstances. As a QBE employee you will have access to and benefit from: 

• ‘Hybrid Working’ – a mix of working from home and in the office to enhance your work/life balance 
• Our ‘Thriving at our Best’ wellbeing program, including free holistic wellbeing coaching, nutritional, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice 
• 18 weeks’ gender-equal flexible leave for all new parents, including paid super 
• The ability to maximise retirement savings through voluntary super contributions and company matching 
• Income protection insurance & reimbursed Death and Total Permanent Disability insurance premiums 
• Additional leave and support through QBE’s Family Domestic Violence First Responder Network 
• Discounts on insurance products, car hire, hotels, goods and services including benefits through our various sports and arts sponsorship partners 

Rewards & Recognition 

We value our employee’s experience with us and are proud to have been recognised for the following awards: 

• 2021 LinkedIn Top Employer & HRD Employer of Choice 
• 2020 Best Workplace Diversity & Inclusion and Excellence Award for Best Health & Wellbeing at the Australian HR Awards 
• Gold Employer status for 4 years in a row 2019 - 2022 Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) – the definitive national benchmark on LGBTQI+ workplace inclusion 
• Ranked 6th place in the AAGE Top Graduate Employers 2021 as voted by graduates 
• Top 20 Workplaces for Dads in 2019 and 2020 (HBF Direct Advice for Dads) 
• Family First accredited employer since 2021 

Apply now! 

APPLY NOW and let’s make it happen!  

Click APPLY to submit your application. Successful applicants will need to complete work rights, police and credit checks through our online provider as a condition of employment. 

QBE recognise the value of diverse perspectives and experience. We are committed to an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and respected for who they are. If we can provide support with accessibility requirements and adjustments, alternative work arrangements or you would like to connect with one of our employee networks at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact us at recruitment@qbe.com 

Skills:

Analytical Thinking, Collaboration Tools, Critical Thinking, Customer Service, Customer Strategy, Data Fusion, Decision Making, Intentional collaboration, Machine Learning, Managing performance, Process Improvements, Risk Management, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Scrum Methodology, Workload Management

Application Close Date: 30/07/2025 11:59 PM

How to Apply:

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Equal Employment Opportunity:

QBE is an equal opportunity employer and is required to comply with equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction it operates.