Data Engineer (Visual Studio, SSIS, Azure)

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

The Data Engineer is responsible for the development and testing of defined users stories as well and performing maintenance duties on existing assets that are in production. The Data Engineer will also provide a level of guidance to Junior and incoming team members in order to get them up to speed and functioning as an active and contributing team member.

This position requires an experienced technical specialist who can organize and prioritize their work without supervision.

The role works closely with the Lead Engineer with the proven ability to deliver the required products and features as required in a timely and quality manner.

The candidate will also play a contributing role in promoting and enabling ongoing platform health improvements for improved resiliency including the availability, integrity and cyber security of the platform.

Key responsibilities:

• Build, test and deploy consumable data pipelines as per specification and in line with defined guardrails of the platform as specified by delivery, risk and security standards.
• Collaborate with counterparts elsewhere within TAL to improve data consistency.
• Work with the Lead Data Engineer towards increasing the reliability and availability of data across TAL.
• 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.
• 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.  
• 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.

Qualifications

Key Attributes Essential
• 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, develop and challenge the norm.

Experience Essential

• 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 
• CI/CD & DevOps experience; Azure DevOps experience; Jira & Confluence experience
• 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

Additional Information

At TAL we value diversity in all its forms and are committed to fostering an inclusive and equitable culture for all our people. We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, individuals from all backgrounds, including those with caring responsibilities, people living with disability, and individuals from the CALD and LGBTQI+ communities to apply. Even if you don’t check every box in the criteria above, we encourage you to apply today or get in touch with us here.   

To provide you with the best experience, we can accommodate you at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team at any time.  

TAL is recognised by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency as an Employer of Choice.  We are proud to be a member of Diversity Council Australia and the Australian Network on Disability. For information on our reconciliation journey, take a look at our Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan.  

We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the Land in which our Head Office is based, the land of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, and recognise their deep connections to the land, sea, and culture.  
We extend this acknowledgment to the many Traditional Lands that we operate across and pay our respects to Elders past, present, and emerging.

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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