Flybuys Hiring for Principal Software Engineer – Data – Job at Melbourne, Australia Full Time

About us:
We’re known for being the country’s most popular rewards program, making the everyday worth more for millions of Aussies. But 26 years of success and growth doesn’t happen by keeping up the status quo.
All the things that make working at Flybuys different as usual – these aren’t just values we talk about. They’re built into everything we do, every day.
Be part of a company that’s always questioned the norm. A business that’s well-established, but still expanding. With one eye on the horizon.
And together we can make every day different as usual.
Your Team:
We’ve already built a pretty amazing team, but we’re not looking for more of the same. Our day-to-day is made stronger when we surround ourselves with people who are different, like you.
We work really hard to build teams that support each other. It’s the kind of environment you’ll miss while you’re on holidays.
Your Role:
As a Principal Solutions Engineer in our Data Product stream, you will be pivotal in shaping, implementing and leading the technical delivery of the Architecture and Design, DataOps, and Data Engineering practices. You will support the Data team across general Data Analytics and Data Science initiatives, ensuring that solutions provided are performant, cost effective and fit for purpose.
You will:

• Guide the troubleshooting and resolution of complex support tasks related to the data pipelines and associated platform components, e.g. Snowflake, AWS services, etc.
• Assist the wider Data Engineering teams maintain scalable data pipelines and build out new API integrations to support continuing increases in data volume and complexity.
• Responsible for design, provision, support and continuous improvement of a variety of snowflake data infrastructure and application hosting solutions.
• Define best practices for our application development teams and assist them in engaging these processes, including manual code and infrastructure deployments, and the development of a continuous development pipeline.
• Provide consultative assistance to application development teams in leveraging automation and monitoring tools for continuous improvement of application deployments and monitoring.
• Assist application teams in leveraging external and internal cloud services features such as elastic capacity auto-scaling, elastic load balancing, right-sizing, disaster recovery strategies, and tiered storage.
• Establish / improve on cloud engineering processes to ensure seamless and automatic progression of the releases across environments.
• Lead and manage multidisciplinary engineers for design, development, and maintenance of large-scale enterprise applications on cloud.

Your Experience:

• 10+ years in a similar Lead Platform Engineer/ Lead DBA with deep hands-on experience across modern data engineering practices.
• 7+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
• Strong background working on large scale Data Warehousing and Data processing solutions.
• Hands on experience working with Snowflake cloud based data warehouse product and related experience providing technical guidance at an enterprise level. Hands on experience working with* Advanced SQL, Python* and other Scripting languages. Experience in dbt (data build tool) is advantageous.
• Solid working experience in infrastructure as code, CI/CD and automation.
• Experienced in Apache Spark (Databricks or AWS EMR).
• Experienced in workflow orchestration solutions such as Apache Airflow, or Prefect.
• Experience with visualization tools such as* PowerBI*, is an added advantage.
• Experience working with analytics and data science team to support the execution of machine learning, AI and advanced analytics.
• Relevant Snowflake, AWS and Azure Certifications.

We value ways of working that work for everyone, and use our different strengths to make us stronger. We work hard to make sure everyone’s voice is heard and respected equally, regardless of identity, background, position, ability or lifestyle.
So whether you’re an earlybird list maker, a night owl coder, a brainstorm chaser or a PowerPoint proof-reader, we want you to Be You, With Us.

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Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Work Location: Multiple Locations