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Lead Data Engineer

Primary office location
Sydney
Date
17-Dec-2024
Permanent - Full time, Mid-senior
Job category
Technology - Data Analytics
Join our high performing Data Team focused on collaborating across a wide range of business and technical stakeholders to deliver a transformation project within Macquarie’s Banking and Financial Services division. This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious, problem solving and technical data professional to contribute and grow rapidly within the organisation.
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 Lead Data Engineer with strong Data and ETL hands-on expertise, you will be leading our regulatory epics and transforming our regulatory reporting platform. Leveraging your strategic, problem-solving mindset and technical prowess, you will guide our team of data engineers to enhance platform efficiency using AI, automation, and cutting-edge technological advancements. 

What you offer

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  • Expert Big Data and Hadoop experience with a focus on Spark, Hive, Presto (or other query engines), big data storage formats (such as Parquet, ORC, Avro) and data pipeline orchestration tools like Airflow
  • Expert in Spark SQL, with proven ability in tuning and optimisation
  • Proven hands-on experience in implementing data integration tools (such as Talend, DataStage or Informatica) and data warehouses
  • Strong AWS experience in one or more of the following (EC2, S3, RDS, EMR)
  • Strong Data Architecture expertise including different data modelling techniques
  • Strong knowledge of data governance areas such as data lineage, technical metadata. Data quality and reconciliation
  • Ability to drive platform efficiency by extending our Automation and AI capabilities – python experience preferred

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 our business, for our people, our customers and our communities. Bring your unique perspective and join a global team who 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 providing a working environment that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply for a role regardless of their identity, including gender, race, ethnicity, cultural identity, nationality, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, intersex status, marital or family status, neurodiversity, religion or belief, disabilities, or socio-economic background.
If you require adjustments to your working arrangements or the recruitment process, please let us know when applying.