Lead Analytics Engineer

About UsCommitted to making a difference, InDebted was founded to change the world of consumer debt recovery for good. We're disrupting a broken industry and creating a better way for businesses to recover debt - where the customer comes first.
We’re a global, digital first and customer-obsessed team of over 270 people, living and working across 5 key countries.
And we’ve also recently been named the AFR BOSS Best Place to Work! By focusing on the happiness and wellbeing of our people, we’ve created a truly flexible, purpose driven and engaging workplace. We’re all here with one shared vision - to remove barriers to financial freedom for all people.
Summary Description: The Data team at InDebted focuses on developing machine learning models, AI solutions, BI solutions and data transformation processes to accelerate our disruption of the traditional debt collection industry. By utilising the rich datasets we have accumulated from communicating with our customers via digital-first channels and other innovations, we are able to efficiently deliver significantly better collections performance results compared to our peers
Be part of this exciting journey as a Lead Analytics Engineer at InDebted working with other members of our R&D team to develop and deploy robust custom reporting data pipelines and file integration solutions. This is a developer role with people management responsibilities

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop data pipelines using Python and associated orchestration tools and processes
• Deploy data pipelines following best practice DevOps principles and incorporating automated testing
• Drive a culture of continuous analytics improvement to advance data literacy across the organisation
• Lead, manage and mentor a team of analytics engineers
• Be a team player, foster a speed-oriented culture in our data team and help to cultivate a fast-growing team
• Work autonomously and make decisions collaboratively, within a team that will support and challenge you as you grow and develop

Required Attributes:

• Strong development skills in Python
• Experience writing SQL queries for extracting and processing data
• Experience with data structure and data modelling, as well as translating business requirements to fit the purpose
• Experience using Git version control
• Comfortable with a fast-paced working environment where priorities may change frequently
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to understand and explain complex concepts to technical and non-technical audiences
• Familiarity with AWS (or other cloud service providers)

Highly Valued Attributes:

• Experience deploying data pipelines following best practice, including writing automated tests and setting up of CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with orchestration tools such as Dagster and data processing frameworks
• Experience working with event-oriented data structures
• Familiarity with data transformation tools such as dbt
• Experience with hiring and team-building

Analytics Engineering Tech Stack:

• AWS Athena, Dagster, dbt, Python

Our Benefits 
At InDebted, you get a lot more than just a highly rewarding and exciting career, we also offer:
Work wherever - We’re a global team working in flexible locations - choose to work from home, in a co-working space, or a bit of both, or see where the role takes you Employee equity - Access to share options in something bigFlexible paid leave - We offer a trust-based leave model - choose when you take leave, how much you take, and what you take it forRemote work set-up - Once-off payment of $AUD750 or equivalent to help you create a working environment that supports your success and productivity.Uprise - Our EAP Provider supports your physical, social & psychological wellbeing
At InDebted, we respect and celebrate the unique attributes, characteristics, and perspectives that make each person who they are. We also believe that bringing diverse individuals together allows us to build better products and a better overall company. InDebted is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Indebted is also a proud 2022 Circle Back Initiative Global Employer and we commit to respond to every applicant.