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Senior Data Engineer

Primary office location
Sydney
Date
19-Mar-2025
Agency worker, Contractor/Agency Worker
Job category
Technology - Engineering
Our Data Engineering team is committed to building, implementing, and enhancing enterprise-scale data solutions. By leveraging a DevOps environment, our team ensure the development of high-quality, low-maintenance software solutions that meet the needs of our customers. You will be part of a collaborative team that drives innovation and efficiency across global hubs.
At Macquarie, our advantage is bringing together diverse people and empowering them to shape all kinds of possibilities. We are a global financial services group operating in 34 markets and with 55 years of unbroken profitability. You’ll be part of a friendly and supportive team where everyone - no matter what role - contributes ideas and drives outcomes.

What role will you play?

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As an experienced GCP Data Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, developing, deploying, and supporting data assets. You will coordinate requirements, schedules, and activities, contributing to team meetings, development, peer code reviews, and testing. Your role will also involve creating templates, implementation methods, standards, and frameworks, while learning from senior developers about products and solutions servicing multiple businesses.

What you offer

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  • 5+ years of enterprise engineering experience working in a mature cloud environment, preferably GCP.
  • Proven experience in building and deploying data lakes and data warehouses on GCP using services such as BigQuery, Cloud Spanner, Cloud Functions, and GCS.
  • Solid experience in authoring complex SQL queries, CTEs, Data Definition Language (DDL) and performance optimisations.
  • Experience with working on real-time data streaming services like Pub/Sub or Kafka, and familiarity with orchestrating data pipeline workflows using Dataform.
  • Proficient in handling PII, data formatting and wrangling, and data preparation
  • Experienced in ingesting data from various sources, including databases, APIs, streaming data feeds, and other cloud platforms
  • Expertise in developing configuration-driven frameworks
  • Strong hands-on coding ability in Python, with experience in developing code-based ETL/ELT data pipelines and performance-optimised data modelling.

We love hearing from anyone inspired to build a better future with us, if you're excited about the role or working at Macquarie we encourage you to apply.

About Technology

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Technology enables every aspect of Macquarie, for our people, our customers and our communities. We’re a global team that is passionate about accelerating the digital enterprise, connecting people and data, building platforms and applications and designing tomorrow’s technology solutions.

Benefits

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Macquarie employees can access a wide range of benefits which, depending on eligibility criteria, include: 
  • Hybrid and flexible working arrangements 
  • One wellbeing leave day per year and up to five additional days leave based on length of service
  • Up to 20 weeks paid parental leave as well as benefits to support you as you transition to life as a working parent 
  • Paid volunteer leave and donation matching 
  • Range of benefits to support your physical, psychological and financial wellbeing 
  • Access to a wide range of learning and development opportunities

Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion

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We are committed to fostering a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and welcome all identities, including race, ethnicity, cultural identity, nationality, gender (including gender identity or expression), age, sexual orientation, marital or partnership status, parental, caregiving or family status, family and domestic violence status, neurodiversity, religion or belief, disability, or socio-economic background. We welcome further discussions on how you can feel included and belong at Macquarie as you progress through our recruitment process. To learn more, contact our team by clicking here.

Our aim is to provide reasonable adjustments to individuals who may need support during the recruitment process and through working arrangements. If you require additional assistance, please let us know in the application process.