Overview
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Over the past 30 years, we've grown from humble beginnings with a single computer to a global technology company (ASX-300 listed company, JIN). We develop cutting-edge solutions empowering our lottery and not-for-profit partners to raise funds for their vital causes. We foster an environment where talented people can innovate, grow, and have fun.
What will you be doing?
- Step into a newly-created, strategic leadership role overseeing the evolution of our data platform. Provide both technical and people leadership, driving transformation and efficiency for internal and SaaS client data solutions.
- Lead a team of data engineers to design scalable, secure, and efficient data architectures and pipelines that support marketing performance, analytics, and strategic initiatives, modernising, consolidating, and commercialising our data infrastructure.
- Lead a team of two data engineers and report to the GM of Saas & Managed Services, collaborating with senior executives, analysts, product, engineering, and SaaS clients. Ensure best practices in data governance, quality, and security while fostering innovation and continuous improvement.
What Your Day-to-Day Will Look Like
- Lead and mentor a team of data engineers to deliver high-quality data solutions.
- Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure data architectures and automated pipelines for data ingestion, transformation, and delivery, including migration from legacy platforms (e.g., Jasper, Pentaho) to modern cloud-based stacks.
- Develop and optimise data models and ensure reliable deployment through CI/CD processes.
- Collaborate with analytics, product, marketing, and engineering teams to understand data requirements and deliver effective solutions.
- Implement and enforce data quality, governance, and security standards to maintain accuracy and compliance.
- Monitor data platform performance, identify issues, and implement solutions to ensure high availability and reliability.
- Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies, advocating for best practices and innovation within the team.
- Maintain comprehensive documentation of data processes, architectures, and workflows.
- Support ad hoc reporting and data requests to assist various business functions.
- Balance transformation projects, ongoing support, and hands-on engineering across multiple concurrent projects and streams.
- Oversee the development and optimisation of data solutions for internal needs and SaaS clients, ensuring business continuity and cost efficiency.
What You'll Be Able to Bring to the Role
- Proven experience in data engineering, including a leadership role, ideally with SaaS/client-facing project delivery.
- Expertise in designing, building, and maintaining scalable data architectures and automated pipelines in cloud environments, including migration from legacy systems.
- Experience leading transformation projects and delivering end-to-end migration or commercialisation initiatives for enterprise and SME clients.
- Proficiency in Bash, SQL, Python, Spark, and dbt; familiarity with Snowflake, Databricks, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong understanding of data governance, quality, and security best practices.
- Proven ability to mentor and lead technical teams, fostering innovation and continuous improvement.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Proactive problem-solving with focus on performance, reliability, and automation.
- Familiarity with Snowflake, Databricks, and CI/CD pipelines is highly desirable.
- Experience or interest in the betting, gaming, or lottery industries is a plus.
- Strong collaboration skills to work across analytics, product, marketing, and engineering teams.
- Commitment to continuous learning and staying current with emerging data engineering trends and technologies.
Salary
Salary Banding: $170,000 - $200,000 AUD + Super
Our Ways of Working
At Jumbo, we value balance and flexibility. Based in Brisbane, our hybrid model combines in-office collaboration (three days per week) with WFH (two days per week). Flexible hours with core collaboration times from 10 AM to 2 PM.
Why Join Jumbo?
- Find Your Freedom – Find details at our site.
- Short-term incentive program dependent on company performance.
- Employee Assistance Program with counselling and coaching.
- Award-winning talent management programs for career growth and skill-building.
- On-site chefs in Brisbane offering fresh lunches and breakfast weekly.
- Ability to work from almost anywhere in the world for up to 120 days a year.
- Social culture with activities and diversity & inclusion events.
- Generous parental leave: 14 weeks for primary carers and 4 weeks for partners.
Candidates offered a position will complete pre-employment checks through our partner, Checkmate.
We are a 2025 Circle Back Initiative Gold Employer – we commit to respond to every applicant.
Seniority level: Not Applicable
Employment type: Full-time
Job function: Information Technology
Industries: Software Development
We are a 2025 Circle Back Initiative Gold Employer – we commit to respond to every applicant.
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