Established in 1988, Rest is one of Australia’s largest profit-to-member superannuation funds.

We support more than 1.9 million members, with around $70 billion of funds under management and are recognised as a responsible investment leader*. We believe when members understand and engage with their super, they’re more likely to get a better retirement outcome.

Everything we do at Rest is underpinned by our values and behaviours, we want to Be Daring, Keep it Simple, Take Action and Have Grit. To put it simply we want our people to thrive and love the work they do.

• Coaching and mentoring opportunities available to passionate data candidates from a manager with strong technical expertise and an equally matched passion for data
• Exposure to a large platform upgrade and new technologies including Snowflake, DBT and Fivetran
• Permanent full time opportunity with hybrid working options

Rest is uplifting its data platform capabilities and migrating to a modern cloud platform. We’re building an entirely new pipeline covering ingestion, integrated, semantic and application-specific layers with end-to-end data quality governance. In this role you can hone your design, engineering, and stakeholder management skills.

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a range of cross functional teams (including Analytics, Architecture, Information Security, Data Governance, and business teams) to design, develop and implement sound data solutions that are secure, stable and meet the business need.
• Design, develop and implement end to end data pipelines using on-premise and cloud-based platforms including Snowflake, DBT, Fivetran, AWS CloudFormation and Python
• Work with the Data Engineering Lead to design, develop and maintain the Rest data model
• Work with the Data Engineering Lead to maintain and improve high quality coding standards and data integration patterns using modern design / development principles. Develop and implement data modelling standards and performance best practices.
• Provide oversight and domain expertise to the cross-functional data and insights product team to assure the delivery of outcomes with respect to the data platform
• Document and maintain data solutions as well as help the team to improve overall documentation standards
• Contribute to, and improve, knowledge sharing and collaboration within team, with partners and across the organisation.
• Update job knowledge by researching new Data Management technologies and products; participate in learning and development opportunities
• Compliance and Standards: Adhere to organisational principles and guidelines, ensuring that solutions delivered are resilient, scalable, and consistent with Rest's existing framework.
• Continuous Improvement: Ensure the continuous improvement of data solutions by identifying opportunities for improvement, aligning with the overall analytics strategy, and implementing changes.
• Actively participate and contribute to the Data Engineering Community of Practice

• Tertiary qualifications or equivalent experience in an Information Technology or related field

Required experience, understanding or credentials including:

• Extensive experience in a similar data engineering role
• Extensive experience in building end to end data pipelines using on-premise and cloud-based data platforms
• Excellent logical and physical data modelling skills as well as extensive experience in efficient SQL development and query performance & tuning
• Strong working knowledge of Data Warehouses, AWS, DBT and Python
• Working knowledge of Unix shell scripting
• Knowledgeable in relational and big data architectures, data warehousing, data integration, data modelling, data optimisation and data analysis techniques
• Understanding and appreciation of data management and data governance best practices
• A passion for technology, improving processes and implementing a different way of working
• A strong analytical thinker and problem solver with a can-do attitude
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Experience working in an Agile environment

Benefits

Our benefits have been designed so you can tailor your experience with us and include:

• Personal and professional development opportunities 
• Flexible, hybrid working – work to suit your lifestyle (must be based in Australia) 
• Purchase leave scheme and gender neutral 16 weeks paid parental leave 
• Super Contribution Continuation for 12 Months of parental leave 
• Meeting free breaks (Rest Stops) 
• Income Protection Insurance 
• Rest Excellence awards (peer recognition awards based on Rest’s values and behaviours) 

If you share our values, believe you can help make a difference for our members and want to be part of a leading superannuation fund with a Super culture, please click Apply Now.

Rest is committed to creating a flexible work environment and culture that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion - where people feel welcome, safe to be themselves and inspired to do their best.

We value the different backgrounds, lived experiences and abilities our diverse team brings. We welcome and encourage applications from candidates of all ages, cultural backgrounds, faiths, gender identities, sexual orientations and thinking styles. This includes people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples and those with disrupted work history due to career or other breaks.

Please note only people with the right to work in Australia will be considered.

*Funds under management as at 31 December 2022. Rest is recognised as a Responsible Investment Leader by the Responsible Investment Association Australia (RIAA) in its Responsible Investment Benchmark Report 2022.

Rest will review applications prior to the closing date and may close the role earlier