Senior Data Engineer

Who We Are

iSelect and Compare the Market are trusted, well-known brands dedicated to helping millions of Australians compare and buy personal finance and household products such as insurance, energy, and loans. Together, we provide a seamless, customer-focused experience that makes it easier for Australians to find the right products to suit their needs.

What You’ll Be Doing

As a Senior Data Engineer, you’ll play a key role in advancing our modern cloud data platform (Databricks/AWS). You’ll combine hands-on engineering expertise with technical leadership, helping shape architecture, uplift data capabilities, and support advanced analytics and machine learning use cases.

You’ll work across a collaborative data ecosystem, partnering with data scientists, BI teams, and architects to deliver scalable, high-quality data solutions.

You will:

Build, maintain and optimise scalable data pipelines for analytics and ML

Design data solutions and contribute to platform architecture

Develop real-time and batch data processing frameworks

Champion best practices across data modelling, quality and governance

Support and deliver against the data engineering roadmap

Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure data is accessible and reliable

What’s In It For You

At Compare the Market and iSelect, we’re all about helping people make smart choices – and joining us might just be yours. We offer an environment where your ideas are heard, your contributions are valued, and your growth genuinely matters. Collaboration is part of our DNA, and you’ll be joining a supportive, forward-thinking team where you can do meaningful work (and be recognised for it!)

We’re guided by three shared values that shape how we work, how we treat each other, and how we show up for our customers – Drive, Noble Intent and All Together.

Plus, we offer a range of great perks to help you thrive both in and out of work:

Vibrant and social community with events and celebrations

Flexible work – one day WFH or a 9-day fortnight

‘ME’ leave and ‘Volunteer Day’ leave

Option to purchase additional leave

Return to Work bonus for parents

Quarterly Award and Recognition program

What Sets You Apart

We’d love to hear from professionals who have:

5+ years’ experience building data pipelines in production environments

Strong Python and SQL skills for data engineering

Experience with cloud platforms (AWS) and modern data stacks

Knowledge of data modelling, governance, security and quality practices

Experience with CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code

Ability to provide technical guidance and mentor others

Experience with the below would be advantageous:

Databricks, Spark or PySpark experience

Experience with real-time/streaming data or ML feature stores

Metadata-driven or highly automated data solutions

Sound like a good fit? Let’s talk.

This role is available to candidates with unlimited Australian working rights only. Sponsorship is not available.

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