Senior Data Engineer
Join a customer-obsessed technology business at the heart of Australia’s largest retailer
- Opportunity to work across the latest technology and methodology
- Permanent hybrid role based in Surry Hills with working from home flexibility
About us
Wpay is a retail payments platform designed for retailers. Our end-to-end solution will deliver seamless payments, administrative efficiencies and deeper customer engagement and understanding for businesses.
We’re building beyond payments - offering retail merchants a comprehensive, customisable, one-stop digital platform for creating and managing commerce experiences to help business flow.
We’re backed by Australia’s largest retail group - with over 1.3 billion transactions processed yearly, we’re Australia’s largest non-bank payments platform. The platform is built to evolve and continually deliver richer retail experiences.
We’re always looking for committed, talented people who want to help create better experiences for businesses and customers.
Together we can create Australia's leading buying, selling, saving and giving experiences every day.
What you’ll do
This is one of the key roles in the Wpay Data Engineering space reporting to the Engineering Manager.- Deliver cloud platform capabilities for business delivery streams.
- Collaborate with architects, business analysts, engineers, product managers and other business representatives to understand business plans and requirements and translate them to technical designs and implementation
- Design and deliver secure & robust platforms with a service based approach to delivery 24/7 availability and high performance
- Engineer tooling and design patterns that support observability and alerting.
- Strong hands on experience in Google Cloud Platform(GCP)
- Solid technical expertise to manage, manipulate and automate complex data feeds, analytical data marts and new database solutions (i.e. BigQuery, Python, SQL etc)
- Strong experience with Google Big Data platforms and associated tools such as BigQuery, DataFlow, DataProc, PubSub and AirFlow
- Strong DevOps and Infrastructure-as-Code mentality with hands-on experience in Terraform.
- Good understanding of data engineering patterns, including NRT time, synchronous data integration, event messaging, pub/sub and Kafka models, and legacy patterns such as SFTP
- Cloud monitoring tools include Prometheus, Grafana, Appinsight and Dynatrace etc.
- Strong data & analytics experience is highly desirable.
- 10 years experience within the IT Industry/retail services or in technology delivery
- 5+ years experience in Software Engineering
- Experience in the payments, retail or ecommerce industry would be highly regarded as well as working in a PCI-DSS compliant environment
What you’ll experience
We embrace diversity of thought and love to take on challenges with a pragmatic and innovative approach. Our culture thrives on mutual respect, care, curiosity, openness, and a proactive attitude. We continually seek ways to pair, collaborate, support, and learn from each other as a team!
Grow with the Group
As an inclusive, team-first company, our people are at the core of everything we do.
We care deeply about creating a workplace where our team members feel valued, respected and empowered. We are committed to providing equal opportunity regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or life stage. We are proud to be recognised as a Gold Tier Employer in the Australian Workplace Equality Index for LGBTQ+ inclusion and as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency.
As our Group continues to evolve, innovate and support our communities, we encourage our team members to do the same with their own careers, by providing ongoing opportunities to grow and make a real difference.
We value flexibility, and encourage our team members to work in ways that meet their work/life commitments and support their wellbeing.
We work hard to create a safe and inclusive environment for all, and most importantly, we're all about creating better experiences – for our customers and for each other.
We’d love to hear from You
If you meet a number of the requirements, but not all, we encourage you to submit your application. You can follow us on LinkedIn or see more opportunities via www.wowcareers.com.au.