The Opportunity
Ventia’s Group Supply Chain is excited to offer a newly created Data Engineer role, ideally based in Sydney. This is a pivotal position responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable, high-performance data infrastructure that underpins the organisation’s analytics, machine learning initiatives, and core operational capabilities.
As a key enabler of data-driven transformation, you’ll play a critical role in converting raw data into actionable intelligence, ensuring data quality, accessibility, and reliability across the enterprise. Your work will empower analysts and the broader data team to deliver insights that drive strategic growth, operational efficiency, and innovation.
This role directly connects data engineering outcomes to business goals, supporting smarter decision-making and enabling product innovation across the supply chain.
What’s in it for you?
- Competitive salary package
- Flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance
- Work alongside a supportive, experienced, and collaborative team
- Access to cross-disciplinary learning opportunities across Ventia’s diverse sectors
- Ongoing training and professional development to support your career growth
- A range of fantastic Ventia employee benefits, including discounted private health insurance, paid parental leave, discounted travel, and more!
Key Accountabilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and data architectures using modern data stack technologies.
- Develop and optimise data models across data warehouses and lakes to support analytical and operational use cases.
- Integrate data from APIs, SAP platforms, relational databases, and streaming sources, ensuring data integrity and reliability.
- Automate pipelines, implement monitoring and alerting, and optimise performance, availability, and cloud costs.
- Establish and enforce data quality, governance, security, and regulatory compliance standards (e.g. GDPR, CCPA).
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver fit-for-purpose data solutions aligned to business needs.
- Contribute to platform roadmap, continuous improvement, and technical excellence through code reviews and knowledge sharing.
Could You Be Our Next Data Engineer?
We’re seeking a technically strong, forward-thinking Data Engineer who thrives in complex environments and enjoys building scalable data platforms with real business impact.
You’ll bring:
- A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field.
- Extensive experience building production-grade data pipelines at scale.
- Strong experience with cloud data platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and agile delivery environments.
- Expert proficiency in Python and SQL; Java or Scala experience is advantageous.
- Hands-on experience with modern data platforms and tooling (e.g. Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, Spark, Airflow, Kafka, DBT, Docker, Git).
- Experience integrating data from SAP systems (ECC6, S/4HANA, Ariba) and other enterprise platforms.
- Familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps practices.
- Industry certifications and a project or open-source portfolio are highly regarded.
- Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills, with a passion for continuous learning.
