Senior Manager - Data Engineering

About Us

G’day Group is recognised as Australia’s largest regional accommodation provider with over 80 owned and operated holiday parks (under the Discovery Parks brand), 220+ licensed independent holiday parks within our G’day Parks network, over 180,000 G’day Rewards Members, and the number 1 travel app in the app store (Wikicamps), the G’day Group is embarking on an exciting period of growth.

With roots firmly planted in traditional holiday parks, recent years has seen evolving investment into premium, experiential tourism, including the award-wining Discovery – Rottnest Island, a glamping resort in WA, along with buying a number of other resorts, country clubs and golf courses, and more recently El Questro and Kings Canyon Resorts.

The Role

As the Senior Manager - Data Engineering you will lead the data engineering team in designing, building, and maintaining the data infrastructure that supports our organisation's data-driven initiatives. This role is critical for ensuring our data architecture is scalable, reliable, and optimised for performance. You will have a deep technical background in data engineering, coupled with strong leadership skills to drive innovation and operational excellence. This represents an excellent opportunity for a leader with extensive experience as a data engineer. Your team will be working on highly visible projects which touch every area of the business.  

Key responsibilities of the role will include -

·      Define and execute the data engineering strategy, aligning it with the organisation’s overall data strategy and business goals.

·      Lead and mentor a team of data engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.

·      Drive the adoption of best practices in data engineering, ensuring that all processes are efficient, scalable, and secure.

·      Oversee the design, implementation, and maintenance of scalable data storage solutions within the Azure ecosystem, ensuring optimal performance and seamless integration across cloud services.

·      Evaluate and integrate new data technologies and tools to improve efficiency, reliability, and scalability of the data infrastructure.

·      Implement robust data governance policies to ensure data quality, consistency, and compliance with relevant regulations.

·      Monitor and optimise data usage and storage to ensure cost-effectiveness and compliance with organisational policies.

Your Experience

A Bachelor’s or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field combined with extensive data engineering skills primarily focused on cloud-based solutions. You will have a strong foundation in data warehousing principles and familiarity with data modelling concepts, including dimensional modelling, star schemas, medallion data-design patterns and normalisation techniques.

You will have experience with DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, Github and automation tools. Demonstrated expertise in automating data pipelines and workflows, preferably with experience in Cloud Composer or similar orchestration tools. You will have a solid understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies and proficiency with Agile tools (e.g., JIRA).

You will have the ability to confidently engage with all levels of the business and communicate to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. You will understand the common patterns and antipatterns for architecture and solution design. 

You will have excellent leadership and interpersonal skills. You will possess a high level of energy, self-motivation, autonomy, initiative, and attention to detail to be successful in meeting the business demands at G’day Group. Your naturally upbeat and open style will fit our cultural values. You will have a highly organised mindset with the ability to assess the urgency of work allocated to you by various stakeholders.

G’day Group is a dynamic company with an energetic ‘market disrupter’ reputation. If you are passionate, adventurous, and ready to hit the ground running, we want to hear from you.

Benefits

·      Health and Wellbeing – Flexible and hybrid working arrangements / Employee Assistance Program / Discounted private health cover / Weekly yoga and walking group / Free annual flu vaccinations

·      Leave Policies – Parental leave / Volunteer leave / Study leave 

·      Professional Development – Leadership programs / Support of external training courses / Reimbursement of professional memberships

·      Employee Savings – Discounted accommodation and experience rates / Salary packaging / Discovery partner discounts/ Free G’day Rewards membership / Loyalty recognition benefits

Our ESG statement

The G’day Group acknowledges the increasing global expectation to demonstrate our approach to Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) risk factors and sustainability in our daily operations and ongoing decision making. Our five-year ESG strategy is evolving to ensure we are committed to fostering a safe, respectful and inclusive workplace, giving back to the communities we operate in, and protecting our environment.

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