Senior Managing Consultant – Data Engineer - (Databricks)| Sydney

Altis Consulting; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Parental leave (16 weeks)

Hybrid work model

Job summary

OFX is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design and operate data pipelines across AWS and GCP, supporting real-time and batch data workflows. You will work within an agile team to ensure data quality, scalability, and reliability for financial operations their platform supports.

Ideal candidates bring 5+ years in data engineering, strong SQL skills, and hands-on experience with BigQuery, Python or Java, and serverless cloud services. Hybrid work options are available in Australia.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of data engineering experience, ideally in financial services or fintech.
• Experience with data warehouse technology, preferably BigQuery.
• Proficiency in SQL and an object-oriented language (Python/Java).
• Experience with cloud platforms AWS or GCP and data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain data pipelines from multiple source systems and environments.
• Collaborate with a cross-functional data and insights team to apply best practices for cloud architecture.
• Diagnose and resolve production issues with guidance from senior engineers and communicate status updates.
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement of systems and processes.
• Develop testing and monitoring, and provide handover support to the operations team.

Skills

SQL

Python

Java

Data modeling

Data analysis

Tools

BigQuery

Cloud Functions

Serverless SQL

Job description

Senior Managing Consultant Data Engineer

Job Description

OFX, a leading financial operations company providing businesses and accounting firms with real-time financial control and visibility to do business anywhere in the world. With an innovative platform and 24/7 human support, OFX automates and simplifies doing business across borders, reducing risk and eliminating routine operational tasks. Offering global business accounts, payments to 180 countries in 30+ currencies and currency risk management solutions to simplify global payments. OFX further enhances business operations by providing corporate cards with spend management, bill payments, vendor management, and integrations with popular accounting and HRIS software, to help achieve better business solutions so accounting firms and businesses thrive.

Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, with offices globally, in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, Singapore and Hong Kong.

Purpose of your role

The data engineer contributes to delivery of high quality data, including ingestion, maintenance, optimizations and solutions to support the data operations in OFX. Working across AWS and GCP, you will also be exposed to data ingestion, transformation, and warehousing. Working in an agile environment, you will implement solutions to appropriate standards and accepted best practices, working with guidance from senior engineers. On a day-to-day basis the data engineer is actively participating in the agile processes of the organization, positively contributing to discussions and team dynamics. The data engineer assists with developing appropriate testing and monitoring, as well as providing handover and technical escalation support.

What you do

Your role will perform a range of data engineering tasks as part of a cross-functional data and insights team. Day to day you will:

• Create new data pipeline, maintain/debug existing data pipelines which pull data from a variety of source systems
• Work within a wider engineering team, adopting and contributing to best practices for software development and cloud architecture
• Work with guidance from senior engineers to diagnose and resolve any production issues which arise, communicating status updates to key stakeholders
• Identify opportunities continuous improvement to our systems and processes
• Develop appropriate testing and monitoring, as well as providing handover and technical escalation support

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, preferably in financial services, Fintech or similar industries.
• Experienced in data warehouse technology (GCP Big Query preferable).
• Cloud Messaging, Cloud Storage, Cloud Functions, and Serverless SQL in either AWS or GCP.
• Conducting capacity planning, performance monitoring and tuning of relational databases.
• Performing backup and recovery of corporate databases.
• Contributing to the development of policies and procedures governing corporate database operations and related issues.
• Experience working in a dynamic environment with the ability to learn and adapt quickly to new methodologies and technologies.
• Proficient in SQL and an object-oriented language (Python and/or Java preferred).
• Data modelling and data analysis experience.

Benefits that mean something

• Primary and secondary gender neutral carer parental leave (16 weeks) or birthday leave, you'll feel well-supported at OFX.
• Enjoy work-life balance and flexibility with our hybrid work model, in an inclusive, diverse and non-hierarchal culture.

EEO/DEI statement

We are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible workplace where we value, respect, and encourage our people to be their authentic selves. With an employee base as diverse as the clients we serve, we know that fostering an inclusive workplace is fundamental to our continued success.