Data Engineer - Marketing - (Hybrid Working)

About SEEK Asia

SEEK  is a diverse group of companies, comprised of a strong portfolio of online employment, educational, commercial and volunteer businesses. SEEK has a global presence (including Australia, New Zealand, China, Hong Kong, South-East Asia, Brazil and Mexico), with exposure to over 2.9 billion people and approximately 27 per cent of global GDP. SEEK makes a positive contribution to people’s lives on a global scale. SEEK is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange, where it is a top 100 company and has been listed in the Top 20 Most Innovative Companies by Forbes.

SEEK is present in Asia through JobStreet and JobsDB, two leading career platforms, with presence across Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Shenzhen,  Singapore, Thailand, and the Philippines. The business represents strong underlying growth and profitability (being the fastest growing part of SEEK’s portfolio of businesses) and attracts over 400 million visits a year.

A cornerstone of SEEK’s growth since its inception has been the passion of its people, its award-winning culture and our people’s strong commitment to the SEEK values. SEEK provides a culture of excellence and acceptance and celebrates the diversity of employees that contribute to the success of its organisation.

Our Culture

At SEEK we really value our culture and the way we work together to get stuff done. You will work with a group of hard-working, fun and caring people who will support you to have a successful and fulfilling career at SEEK.

Our dedication to fostering a work environment where people feel like they're making a difference every single day has helped us maintain being a leading job portal and Asia’ preferred destination for job seekers and organization.  In other words, people like to come here – and we're proud of that!

The Role

The Data Engineer – Marketing Technology reports to the MarTech Data & Insights Manager within the Marketing Technology Team, which is a graphically dispersed APAC-wide team of 14 members. It is important that this role establishes a strong connection with: Internal Stakeholders: Marketing, Data Services, AI & Ontology Team, BI/Reporting teams, Strategy and Product teams, Infrastructure teams (DBA, SysEng and DevOps), Development teams External Stakeholders: Databases housed outside of SEEK

• Work with key stakeholders, BA / Data Analyst, and development team to analyse and define technical solutions to meet business and non-functional requirements.
• Design, development and testing of: - Data processing pipelines - Data warehouse / datamarts / dimensional models - Logical and physical database schemas, indexes, views, etc. - SQL queries - Scripting for orchestration, operations, and data management - AWS infrastructure and services • Supporting end users of our data assets (finding & understanding data, tuning queries, resolving data quality issues) August 2023
• Low level performance analysis and optimization of databases, SQL queries, ETL processes, physical schemas, as well as underlying system and resource utilization.
• Analysis of data and source systems. • Operational support of our data systems (incident response, CI/CD, Monitoring/Alerting, some database and system administration)
• Understand the customers (marketing, sales, service) your team services, putting their needs at the centre of all activity, guiding priorities based on where impact can be most significant. Collaborate with internal customers across the APAC region to gather feedback and ensure expectations are met.
• Drive continuous improvement in the data engineering process working with the Delivery lead to provide regular communicate progress, risks, and changes to data that will impact stakeholders.
• Contribute to an environment of collaboration and continuous learning within the team.

Skills and Experience 

• Data Warehouse / Datamart development experience •
• Advanced SQL development • Strong software engineering, coding & scripting 
• Data pipeline / ETL / orchestration development • Physical, logical, dimensional data modelling •
• Strong understanding of databases and database performance optimisation 
• Experience with big data systems (eg Hadoop/EMR, Spark/Presto, MPP relational DBs)  Experience with AWS (particularly EMR & S3) • Data visualisation tools

The Team

SEEK is currently building a world-class platform which will revolutionise the pace at which we deliver customer solutions and improve our global competitive position. This transformation extends our platform capabilities to serve candidates and hirers across APAC and unifies our CRM and Marketing technologies across the region.

The Customer Technology team supports CRM and Marketing Technologies and is scaling to achieve a fully unified ecosystem, ensuring streamlined architecture, optimal platform performance, seamless delivery and exceptional business partnering. 

In the short term we are focussed on stabilising the platform and achieving maximum return on investment, while in future we will optimise and extend platform capabilities to deliver improved customer engagement, business growth and enable strategic imperatives.

• The broader Marketing Technology team comprises 14 team members within the Customer Technology Team of 56 team members, across both technical and business domains.

• Grounded in Agile methodologies, the Platform Administrator will actively engage in rituals such as stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, reinforcing the team's operating rhythm and contributing to the overall success and adaptability of the team.

At SEEK, the health and safety of our people is our highest priority. For this reason, SEEK has a policy requiring all new employees to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19, unless a formal medical exemption applies. On this basis, as part of the application process you will be asked to confirm that you have read and understood this policy, and would like to continue with the hiring process.  Further details about this policy will be shared during the hiring process, as required.

SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.