Lead Analytics Engineer: AI-Driven Semantic Platform

Cartology; City of Brisbane; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Team discounts across Woolworths Group

Rewards program

Job summary

Cartology, Woolworths Group’s Retail Media business, is seeking a Lead Analytics Engineer focused on Audience and AI. You will own the semantic and BI layer of Cartology’s data platform, leveraging Looker (LookML), dbt, BigQuery, and Airflow to deliver a scalable single source of truth.

You’ll mentor engineers and partner with Product and Senior Engineering Manager to define platform architecture. You will drive data governance, enable AI-ready readiness, and lead the rollout of conversational

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data or analytics engineering.
• Advanced SQL proficiency and strong Python skills.
• Looker/LookML development and semantic modeling experience.
• Hands-on with dbt and Apache Airflow for pipelines.
• Experience with BigQuery, Snowflake, or Redshift.
• Strong data governance, modeling, and architecture background.
• Mentorship and ability to translate complex tech to business leaders.

Responsibilities

• Own the semantic and BI layer of Cartology’s data platform.
• Shape platform architecture and establish data engineering standards.
• Mentor junior engineers and translate technical systems for executives.
• Deliver Looker models, Explores and metrics for finance and revenue.
• Drive data governance from warehouse to Looker surfaces.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to meet business needs.
• Roll out conversational analytics using Looker with a semantic layer.
• Migrate Looker instances within Woolworths Group environments.

Skills

BigQuery

Snowflake

Redshift

SQL

Python

LookML

Semantic modeling

dbt

Airflow

CI/CD

Terraform

Data governance

Data architecture

Tools

Looker

dbt

Airflow

Terraform

Job description

Cartology, Woolworths Group’s Retail Media business, is seeking a Lead Analytics Engineer focused on Audience and AI. You will own the semantic and BI layer of Cartology’s data platform, leveraging Looker (LookML), dbt, BigQuery, and Airflow to deliver a scalable single source of truth.

You’ll mentor engineers and partner with Product and Senior Engineering Manager to define platform architecture. You will drive data governance, enable AI-ready readiness, and lead the rollout of conversational