Senior Data Platform Engineer

Jemena is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to design and maintain their data platform infrastructure in Docklands, VIC, Australia. The role involves enhancing data engineering capabilities, managing platform integrations, and developing CI/CD pipelines. Candidates should have strong experience with Databricks, AWS, and data integration tools. Jemena offers hybrid work options, career development support, and a commitment to safety and sustainability.
• Gender neutral paid parental leave (no min service + continued super.)
• Hybrid ways of working + additional leave purchase benefits
• Exceptional career development pathways, training & education support

Who We Are

Jemena is an Australian energy company who own and operate more than $12.4 Billion worth of gas and electricity transportation assets across Australia supplying millions of households and businesses with these essential services every day.

We pride ourselves on our innovative approach, technical expertise, and dedication to safety, quality, and sustainability. Our Group’s over 3000 team members, consistently strive to make a difference in the communities we serve.

Overview Of Our Role

As the Senior Platform Engineer, you will be empowered to design, implement, and maintain Jemena’s data platform infrastructure; to support reliable, scalable, and efficient data processing across various business units. Your role will provide technical strategy and solutions to enhance our data engineering capabilities, ensuring high availability, performance, and security of our data environments.

Additionally, play a key role in managing platform integrations, optimising infrastructure as code (IaC), and develop reusable data engineering components and CI/CD pipelines. Be involved in ongoing support for critical platform services, including Databricks, Kafka, and TimescaleDB, and manage integrations with Confluent Kafka and SAP HANA. Furthermore, an opportunity to collaborate with product teams to review and guide code changes, ensuring alignment with best practices and Jemena’s architectural standards.

This role combines operational responsibilities with a focus on innovation, supporting Jemena’s digital strategy by enabling robust data engineering solutions to drive insight and decision-making capabilities across the organisation.

A Little About You
• Strong experience in designing, building, and managing scalable, secure, and high-performance data platforms.
• Extensive hands-on expertise with Databricks, Terraform, and AWS cloud infrastructure, including Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and disaster recovery management.
• Proven ability to develop and manage CI/CD pipelines (GitLab) for infrastructure and application deployments.
• Hands-on experience with data integration tools like Confluent Kafka, SAP HANA, and TimescaleDB, along with Python and SQL for reusable libraries.
• Familiarity with data orchestration (Apache Airflow) and large-scale data ingestion patterns.
• Experience in agile environments, collaborating with cross-functional teams, with a strong focus on FinOps for cloud cost optimisation.

Qualifications / Certifications & Skills
• Strong understanding of cloud-based data engineering principles and modern data platform architectures.
• Expertise in Databricks, data integration (Confluent Kafka, SAP HANA), and real-time data processing.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS) and CI/CD best practices (GitLab) for automated deployments.
• Skilled in Python and SQL for data engineering, including reusable libraries and scalable ingestion patterns (Apache Airflow).
• Knowledge of data security, governance, and compliance in cloud environments, ensuring best practices within Jemena’s platform.

Why you should come and work for us 

Our people are our energy source and we offer meaningful benefits and rewards that work for you. We offer the opportunity for long term career growth as part of our talent development and succession planning process. Join our team and make a meaningful impact toward Australia’s “Net Zero” targets through the delivery of critical infrastructure projects and be a part of our journey to shape the future of the energy and utilities industry.
• Jemena is among the first companies in Australia to be accredited as a Family Inclusive Workplace
• flexible work arrangements, empowered to work your way & agile + additional leave benefits!
• primary & secondary parental leave & well-being and family support benefits
• numerous career development pathways + yearly financial support to upskill
• annual bonuses + generous $$$ employee referral program
• empowering you within a fun, diverse and inclusive culture
• group benefits galore for all employees!
• genuine focus on work / life balance

We are committed to developing a diverse and inclusive workforce that reflects the communities we are part of. We welcome applications from people of all ages, backgrounds, abilities, and identities. At Jemena, you belong.

Recruitment Process 

During our recruitment process, you will be required to undergo pre-employment checks including pre-employment medical, reference checks and a national police check. Notice to Third Parties: Jemena does not accept unsolicited resumes (or liability associated with fees or costs) from recruitment agencies, search firms or third parties. Interested candidates are welcome to submit their application independently. 

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