Data Analytics Engineering Lead

<div> <p>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.</p> <p>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 <strong>Great Place to Work</strong> and <strong>WORK180’s #1 Employer for Women</strong>. At hipages, you’ll find real impact, career growth and a workplace where everyone belongs.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>About the role:</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Why join our Data team?</strong></p> <ul> <li>💻 Hybrid working model &nbsp;</li> <li>🪴 In-house Talent Development team to prioritise personal and career growth &nbsp;</li> <li>💰 Competitive salary, benefits and perks, plus equity via our Employee Share Program &nbsp;</li> <li>🤸 Cross-functional collaboration across Product, Engineering, Marketing and Commercial teams &nbsp;</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>How you will add value:</strong></p> <p><em>Leadership &amp; People Management</em></p> <ul> <li>Lead, mentor, and line-manage a team of 2 Analytics Engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, continuous learning, and open collaboration.</li> <li>Shape analytics engineering practices across hipages, establishing standards for reproducibility, observability, style guides, and contributions to our data handbook.</li> <li>Educate data teams and broader business stakeholders on analytics engineering best practices and self-serve capabilities.</li> </ul> <p><em>Architectural &amp; Technical Execution</em></p> <ul> <li>Serve as the primary advocate for dbt while providing technical leadership throughout the Databricks and Tableau BI landscape</li> <li>Architect, design, and implement scalable, high-performance data models in dbt and Databricks in close collaboration with Data Analysts and Data Engineers</li> <li>Define, establish, and enforce<strong> </strong>data<strong> </strong>contracts<strong> </strong>between software engineering producers and downstream data models to eliminate breaking upstream schema changes</li> </ul> <p><em>Delivery &amp; Engineering Excellence</em></p> <ul> <li>Apply modern software engineering best practices (CI/CD, Git version control, automated testing) to iteratively deliver reliable data products and platform capabilities</li> <li>Drive end-to-end data quality, governance, SLAs, and consistency across our analytics and data science ecosystem</li> <li>Identify operational bottlenecks, optimize query execution, and streamline data pipelines to enhance overall system performance</li> <li>Oversee comprehensive documentation of data architecture, pipeline lineage, and analytical workflows</li> </ul> <p><br><br></p> <p><strong>About you:&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><em>Technical &amp; Architectural&nbsp;</em></p> <ul> <li>Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, Economics or a related quantitative qualification or relevant equivalent experience</li> <li>Advanced SQL with deep experience designing and building scalable data architectures (Kimball dimensional modeling, Data Vault, etc.)</li> <li>Hands-on mastery of dbt (Data Build Tool) and strong experience with enterprise cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)</li> <li>Hands-on experience defining, enforcing, or implementing Data Contracts to manage producer-consumer interfaces</li> <li>Proven experience developing and governing semantic layers in AI and BI tools like Tableau</li> </ul> <p><em>Leadership &amp; Strategic Execution</em></p> <ul> <li>Proven capability to manage direct reports, work independently, and drive cross-functional alignment with excellent communication and conflict-resolution skills.</li> <li>Comfortable navigating ambiguity, managing priorities, and delivering iterative value in a fast-paced environment.</li> <li>Passionate about data culture, with a proven ability to translate complex data structures into clear, actionable narratives for technical and non-technical stakeholders.</li> </ul> <p><strong>&nbsp;Nice to have</strong></p> <ul> <li>Exposure to two-sided marketplace dynamics, network metrics, or high-velocity event-driven data ecosystems</li> <li>Experience partnering with Data Science teams to build feature stores, orchestrate pipelines (e.g., Airflow, Databricks Workflows), or support ML model deployments</li> <li>Interest or experience in shaping data for AI/LLM consumption</li> </ul> </div> <div> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Life at hipages:</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.&nbsp;And there’s more:</p> <ul> <li>Diverse, collaborative teams that love solving problems &nbsp;</li> <li>Agile squads, hackathons, off-sites and roadshows &nbsp;</li> <li>Extra leave for birthdays, volunteering, and more &nbsp;</li> <li>Healthy snacks, continental breakfast and fresh fruit &nbsp;</li> <li>Sydney CBD office near Town Hall and Gadigal Stations &nbsp;</li> <li>Tailored growth support, mentoring and stretch projects &nbsp;</li> <li>A vibrant social scene - we work hard and have fun doing it &nbsp;</li> </ul> <p><strong>We prioritise Diversity:</strong></p> <p>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.&nbsp;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.&nbsp;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.</p> <p>We’re also a Circle Back Initiative Employer, which means we commit to responding to every applicant.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ntj8ttXP88s" width="560" height="314"></iframe></p> </div>

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