Data Analytics Engineering Lead

Hipagesgroup; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Career development support

Employee equity participation

Job summary

hipages is Australia’s leading home improvement platform. We’re seeking a senior analytics engineer to lead a small team, shape data architecture, and drive end-to-end data products across the data platform. You will mentor engineers, champion best practices, and collaborate with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Commercial teams.

The role focuses on dbt, Databricks, and Tableau, delivering scalable data models and governance while enabling self-serve analytics for the business.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or quantitative field or equivalent experience.
• Advanced SQL with scalable data architectures.
• Hands-on with dbt and cloud platforms.
• Experience designing semantic layers in BI tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead analytics engineers and mentor a craft pod.
• Architect scalable data models and data contracts.
• Deliver reliable data products with CI/CD and testing.
• Ensure data governance, quality, and documentation.

Skills

Advanced SQL

dbt

Databricks

Tableau

Data modeling

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Math/Stats

Tools

Databricks

Tableau

dbt

Airflow

AWS/GCP/Azure

Job description

Hi! We’re hipages, an ASX-listed tech company and Australia’s #1 digital platform connecting households with trusted home improvement businesses. We're on a mission to transform the home improvement industry to build better lives for everyone.

With teams across Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines and Vietnam, we work as one team with a shared purpose. We’re proud to be a certified Great Place to Work and WORK180’s #1 Employer for Women. At hipages, you’ll find real impact, career growth and a workplace where everyone belongs.

About the role

You’ll play a crucial role in supporting the hipages marketplace by developing our analytics engineering capabilities. Working alongside a talented data team to create immense value for the business and contribute to the development and execution of hipages' commercial strategy.

Your experience and expertise will help us discover new ways of operating in the world of data modelling and business intelligence. You’ll design and support the deployment of end-to-end data models, data products as well as develop and maintain internal analytics capabilities within our data platform.

This role is vital in scaling our current data architecture and capabilities on DBT, Databricks and Tableau to enable self-service analytics. This role will be reporting into the Head of Commercial and Data Analytics giving that mentorship and executive buy-in to ensure this role is a success.

This is a senior, hands-on role leading a craft pod of three analytics engineers, yet setting direction across a much wider community, acting as the technical authority on what \"good\" data design looks like.

Why join our Data team

• Hybrid working model
• In-house Talent Development team to prioritise personal and career growth
• Competitive salary, benefits and perks, plus equity via our Employee Share Program
• Cross-functional collaboration across Product, Engineering, Marketing and Commercial teams

How you will add value

Leadership & People Management

• Lead, mentor, and line-manage a team of 2 Analytics Engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, continuous learning, and open collaboration.

Architectural & Technical Execution

• Serve as the primary advocate for dbt while providing technical leadership throughout the Databricks and Tableau BI landscape
• Architect, design, and implement scalable, high-performance data models in dbt and Databricks in close collaboration with Data Analysts and Data Engineers
• Define, establish, and enforce data contracts between software engineering producers and downstream data models to eliminate breaking upstream schema changes

Delivery & Engineering Excellence

• Apply modern software engineering best practices (CI/CD, Git version control, automated testing) to iteratively deliver reliable data products and platform capabilities
• Drive end-to-end data quality, governance, SLAs, and consistency across our analytics and data science ecosystem
• Identify operational bottlenecks, optimize query execution, and streamline data pipelines to enhance overall system performance
• Oversee comprehensive documentation of data architecture, pipeline lineage, and analytical workflows

About you

Technical & Architectural

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, Economics or a related quantitative qualification or relevant equivalent experience
• Advanced SQL with deep experience designing and building scalable data architectures (Kimball dimensional modeling, Data Vault, etc.)
• Hands-on mastery of dbt (Data Build Tool) and strong experience with enterprise cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Hands-on experience defining, enforcing, or implementing Data Contracts to manage producer-consumer interfaces
• Proven experience developing and governing semantic layers in AI and BI tools like Tableau

Leadership & Strategic Execution

• Proven capability to manage direct reports, work independently, and drive cross-functional alignment with excellent communication and conflict-resolution skills.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity, managing priorities, and delivering iterative value in a fast-paced environment.
• Passionate about data culture, with a proven ability to translate complex data structures into clear, actionable narratives for technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Exposure to two-sided marketplace dynamics, network metrics, or high-velocity event-driven data ecosystems
• Experience partnering with Data Science teams to build feature stores, orchestrate pipelines (e.g., Airflow, Databricks Workflows), or support ML model deployments
• Interest or experience in shaping data for AI/LLM consumption

Life at hipages

We’re more than just a workplace. We’re a place where you can be yourself, do great work and grow your career. Recognised as a Great Place to Work, our inclusive, supportive culture helps people thrive.

You’ll use the best tools and tech, with real impact on our products and customers. We invest in your development and lead with coaching, not micromanagement – it’s why 85% of our team say their leader is great.And there’s more:

• Diverse, collaborative teams that love solving problems
• Agile squads, hackathons, off-sites and roadshows
• Extra leave for birthdays, volunteering, and more
• Healthy snacks, continental breakfast and fresh fruit
• Sydney CBD office near Town Hall and Gadigal Stations
• Tailored growth support, mentoring and stretch projects
• A vibrant social scene - we work hard and have fun doing it

We prioritise Diversity

At hipages, innovation and collaboration thrive in diverse and inclusive teams. We don’t expect you to know everything - we care more about who you are as a person, a team member, and a leader. We’re proud to be endorsed by WORK180 for supporting women’s careers and we value diversity across culture, age, gender identity and sexual orientation. Research shows that men often apply when they meet just 60% of the criteria, while women and minority groups wait until they tick every box. If you think you’d be a great fit - even if you don’t meet every requirement - we’d love to hear from you.

We’re also a Circle Back Initiative Employer, which means we commit to responding to every applicant.