Data Engineer
Job Description
Role
Reporting into the Head of Data Engineering and Strategy, you will be an integral part in crafting bespoke solutions to solve business problems and to improve existing business processes within the organisation.
This hands-on role provides a fantastic opportunity to shape the growth of a data capability within a rapidly growing business. The scope of the role is broad, involving significant cross-departmental interaction, and an end-to-end coverage of projects from design through to implementation and deployment. The aim is toward continual improvement of data flows within the organisation.
Job Requirement
Key accountabilities:
• Database design, implementation/change, tuning and support
• Database integration with external data feeds, platforms, workflow and reporting tools
• Data integrity and consistency
• Management of data processes and delivery timelines
• Delivery of data to end-users
Qualifications and experience:
• Has 2-5 years hands-on development experience, ideally within Funds Management/Finance industry
Technical Competencies:
Proven track record in a similar role. Essential skills and experience include:
• Experience with the AWS platform
• Experience with the data lifecycle
• Development of APIs in a microservice architecture
• RDBMS performance analysis and tuning
• Excellent Python skills
• Integration with external platforms, data feeds, ETL
• Unix and Windows operating systems
• VBA and Excel add-in development
Highly desirable skills and experience:
• Experience with DevOps including version control
• Test driven development
• Continuous integration and deployment
• Containerised system architecture - Docker
• Web front-end experience
Key Personal Attributes
• Structured approach to your work and attention to detail
• Able to interact with non-technical users to identify business requirements
• Able to analyse existing business processes to identify problem areas and improvement
opportunities
• Able to work across multiple teams, identify and mitigate risk impacts
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects in a dynamic environment
• Disciplined approach to data quality and curation
• Self-starter: ability to analyse problems, devise, implement and support solutions
• Willingness to be hands-on
• Entrepreneurial spirit
Company Info
Company Overview
Magellan Financial Group Limited (Magellan) is a leading funds management business currently managing $95 billion (as at 31 December 2021) on behalf of retail investors in Australia and New Zealand and institutional investors globally. Magellan was founded in 2006 and is an ASX top 100 publicly listed company. Magellan is based in Sydney and has offices in Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Auckland and the United States of America and currently employs over 130 staff.
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