Company Description
In May 2021, Lendi and Aussie Home Loans merged to create Lendi Group. Today, Lendi Group is Australia's largest retail mortgage broker, with a loan book in excess of $70 billion, over 1300 brokers and 225 retail stores across the country.
We’re passionate about what we do and like to do things differently. We’ve enjoyed record growth while adapting to the changing world around us. We have bold ambitions to change the way Australians experience property buying, for good.
Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion are fundamental to the success of Lendi Group. We’re passionate about fostering an environment where our team members feel valued and supported and we celebrate everyone’s unique identity.
To learn more about life at Lendi Group check out our blog: https://www.lendi.com.au/inspire/category/life-at-lendi/
Lendi Group is at the forefront of innovation in the mortgage and finance industry. We are committed to leveraging data to drive business decisions, optimise operations, and deliver exceptional value to our customers and brokers. As we continue to grow, we are expanding our data engineering and insights capabilities.
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Data Engineer to join our team in Sydney. The ideal candidate will play a crucial role in developing, maintaining, and optimising our data pipelines, build practices and supporting data-driven decision-making across the organization.
This is a 6-month max-term contract with the potential to transition into a permanent role upon completion of the contract.
Job Description
- Collaboration:
- Work closely with a cross-functional agile team to deliver high-quality data solutions.
- Work closely with data analysts, data scientists, and other stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
- Data Engineering
- Data pipeline development, maintenance and engineering support with modern data stack in a rapid, agile development practices
- Cloud data warehouse – development, testing and production deployments ; Snowflake SQL and administration (mandatory), dbt (mandatory), Airflow (mandatory), Terraform (desirable), python (mandatory), Fivetran (desirable), Databricks (desirable), Postgres (desirable), AWS fundamentals (mandatory), Buildkite (or equivalent CI/CD platform) fundamentals (mandatory), PowerBI fundamentals (desirable)
- Performance Optimization:
- Optimize data pipelines, build pipelines & BI solutions for performance and scalability.
- Implement data engineering best practices, design, testing, documentation and maintenance
- Data Governance:
- Ensure compliance with data governance policies and procedures.
- Monitor data quality and address any issues related to data completeness and accuracy.
- Collaboration:
- Provide input to solution design & technical support of pipelines.
- Documentation:
- Maintain comprehensive documentation of data engineering solutions, data models, and processes.
- Contribute to design guides and training materials as needed.
- Issue and Incident Resolution: Provide support for issue and incident resolution.
Qualifications
- Minimum of 5 years of data engineering experience with modern development practices
- Proficiency in SQL with a cloud data warehouse (Snowflake, Redshift, Databricks) and experience with ETL tools and processes.
- Familiarity with programming languages such as Python
- Strong understanding of data warehousing concepts and data modelling techniques.
- Knowledge of data governance and data quality best practices.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail. Strong communication and collaboration skills.
Additional Information
- Enjoy the flexibility of remote working arrangements. We offer a highly flexible hybrid structure to suit your individual needs
- We offer extended Paid Parental Leave: we celebrate our growing Lendi Group family with up to 26 weeks leave for primary carers and up to 4 weeks for secondary carers.
- An additional week’s Loyalty Leave each year after reaching 3 years’ service.
We are a people-first company that invests in initiatives to promote a healthy work environment, such as offering an Employee Assistance Program and social groups such as our industry-leading Women in Technology group.
Our culture is guided by our 3 core values: We Are Stronger United; Act Like You Own It; and Keep Home Loans Human. Our values are part of our core DNA that helps Lendi Group to attract, engage and evolve the right talent and build best-in-class products.
Lendi Group is a 2024 Circle Back Initiative Employer; we value a positive candidate experience and commit to respond to every applicant. Once we have received your application, we will reach out to you via email.
Feeling like you don’t meet all the skills listed? That’s ok; we are always on the lookout for different skills, experience, and qualities and so we’d still like to hear from you.
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What We Do
We are one of Australia’s fastest growing fintechs, building market leading technology to transform the home loan industry through our powerhouse property lending brands and networks - Aussie and Lendi. Lendi Group exists to transform the stressful, disjointed and sometimes overwhelming journey of financing a property into a friction-free experience for everyone involved. Our cross-functional team of super smart experts and brokers power our brands, products, services, relationships and platforms to help more Australians secure their property dreams, seamlessly. With a shared history of challenging the status quo, our brands provide different experiences for customers but the endgame is always to help more Australians achieve their home ownership dreams.
