What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Data Engineer position at TAL?
Company Description
Welcome to This Australian Life.
From the millions of Australians we protect, to those that make it happen every day at TAL, people really are what we’re all about. We want to grow with you. Achieve with you. And support you to do your best work. That's why we're focused on developing leadership, promoting diversity, rewarding excellence and retaining great talent.
We're always looking for people who want to go further with us. People who do what’s right, aim high, and work smart. Why not see where we can go?
Job Description
As a Senior Data Engineer you will:
- Build, test and deploy consumable data pipelines as per specification and in line with defined guardrails of the the platform as specified by delivery,risk and security standards.
- Collaborate with counterparts elsewhere within TAL to improve data consistency.
- Work with the Lead Date Engineer towards increasing the reliability and availability of data across TAL.
- Ensure that delivered products are secure, reliable, usable, efficient, effective and, where required, highly available and scalable.
- Assist the Pod in troubleshooting and supporting what they build, including providing L3 support for production incident resolution and root cause fixes.
- Participate in Scrum ceremonies reporting on dependencies, progress, impediments and next steps.
- Develop technical designs for step-changes in the products.
- Perform design-, code- and test-reviews and embed built-in quality practices to ensure products delivered by the Pod meet appropriate quality standards throughout development. Also ensure that delivered products are secure, reliable, usable, efficient, effective and, where required, highly available and scalable.
- Encourage a culture of ownership, accountability, innovation and quality in development activities of the Pod with a focus on minimising technical debt.
- Assist the Pod in improving their delivery velocity. Help new Pod members learn the Pod practices (including TAL Continuous Delivery (CD) agile practices), standards and technology being built and help existing Pod members to upskill as required.
- Support the Product Owner and the Pod to invest in systems health and resiliency. Articulate the reasons for this in business language.
- Drive and enable automation and measurable ongoing improvement in Pod work practices.
- Assist the Pod in breaking down user stories, sizing and estimating tasks, removing impediments, mitigating risks and, where required, facilitate agile ceremonies (Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective rituals).
- Support the Product Owner in the collaboration with technical leads of other Pods to have dependent user stories included in their respective sprint backlogs.
Qualifications
Key Attributes
- Good communication skills
- Result oriented with ability to drive high operational efficiency
- Analytically rigorous with a high attention to detail
- Ability to collaborate effectively with other Pods within the team
- High degree of curiosity and desire to learn, self develop and challenge the norm
Required Experience:
- Experience in developing data pipelines in both traditional and cloud base environments using ETL methodologies.
- Strong technical background, ideally having worked as a developer for 5 years, including experience with the Microsoft stack SSIS, SSRS, SQL and Stored Procedures as well as MS Azure technology stack in particular ADF, Azure SQL and a working understanding of Azure DevOps
- Any other Azure related knowledge or experience in the following areas would be a bonus: Azure Databricks, Azure Event Hub and Cosmos DB.
- Demonstrated ability to be flexible, adaptive and resilient in a fast-changing environment.
- Excellent knowledge of and experience in the application of agile and lean practices.
Desirable Qualification and Experience:
Tertiary qualifications; Financial Services/Insurance/Life Insurance industry background; CI/CD & DevOps experience; Azure DevOps experience; Jira & Confluence experience
Additional Information
Work is a big part of this Australian life, and we work hard to make it one of the best parts. We don’t just say it; we do it. We offer a workplace that’s inclusive and flexible, supporting our people with options that let them make the most of their careers.
We know the value of having different people from all walks of life, with varied points of view and attributes regardless of their age, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, intersex status or any disabilities they might be living with. We strive for a diverse and inclusive workplace where a sense of belonging encourages people to bring their full selves to work.
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Everyone at TAL has a responsibility to do the right thing and is accountable for the way they conduct themselves. Our expectations are that you follow the principles set out in our Code of Conduct when you come to work every day. Risk management is everyone’s responsibility.
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