Data Engineer
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About the Role
2025 is an exciting year to join the Drive team a business wholly owned by Australias largest media organisation Nine Entertainment with extensive reach across all media channels. The Data Engineer role sits at the heart of our data operations designing systems that scale protect data quality and support teams with data reporting and insights. This is a hands-on role where you will play both architect and operator designing systems that can handle diverse data types while ensuring reliability and performance at scale. You will work collaboratively with Technology squads ETL Engineers and the Head of Infrastructure.
Day to day you will:
- Create flexible scalable and efficient data models that cater to diverse analytical and processing requirements.
- Write efficient queries structure datasets for analytics and troubleshoot performance issues in production environments.
- Design systems that scale and adapt to schema drift late-arriving data or inconsistent input format.
- Create self-service capabilities for business users while maintaining enterprise-grade security and governance standards.
- Establish standards and automated processes to ensure data maintains accuracy completeness and consistency throughout its lifecycle.
- Implement multi-layered security measures including encryption access controls and continuous monitoring to protect sensitive data.
- Apply infrastructure as code principles and tools like Terraform to manage cloud resources programmatically ensuring reproducible deployments and consistent environments.
- Apply window functions common table expressions and query optimization techniques to improve performance.
- Design storage and compute strategies that balance cost performance and compliance integrating cloud-native data solutions with legacy systems.
Qualifications :
Qualifications
What youll bring:
- Bachelors degree in computer science information technology or a related field.
- 5 years of experience in data engineering with a strong focus on data modelling aggregation and business intelligence.
- Proven ability to design and build efficient data models within a data warehouse environment.
- Strong understanding of data warehousing principles and dimensional modelling.
- Expert-level SQL skills for complex data manipulation querying and aggregation.
- Excellent communication skills to translate business needs into technical data solutions.
- A proactive detail-oriented mindset with a focus on data accuracy and integrity.
Nice-to-Haves:
- Experience with next-generation architectures such as Vector Databases and RAG will be a plus.
- Expertise in building and maintaining reports and dashboards with Tableau.
- Experience with data loading transformation and performance optimization in a modern environment such as Snowflake.
Additional Information :
How we work
At Nine our flexible work options vary by role and team. Depending on the position this may include flexible hours hybrid work or part-time arrangements. We welcome discussing your flexibility needs during the hiring process - just ask the Talent Acquisition team.
More info at Nine Careers.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:
Were committed to a safe respectful and inclusive Nine. From day one youll be encouraged to bring your whole self to work and will be supported to perform at your best.
We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people people with disabilities and of all ages genders nationalities backgrounds and cultures as we recognise the importance and value of diverse perspectives. Should you require any adjustments to the recruitment process please advise us when you apply.
Work rights: Please note to apply for this role you must already have the right to lawfully work and live in Australia.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Employment Type
Full-time
