Create impact as a Senior Data Engineer.
Join the largest general insurance group in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. We’re a top-tier ASX-listed company helping to make the world a safer place through creating a stronger and more resilient business and enabling our portfolio of iconic insurance brands.
Your Role
Join the Single View of Policy – Data Engineering Team - The Single View of Policy (SVOP) Data Engineering team builds and maintains the core data pipelines that power policy-related insights and decision-making across IAG.
In this role, you’ll lead the design, build, and optimisation of data pipelines that support a range of data products across the organisation. You’ll apply your expertise in SQL, dbt, and AI-driven automation to deliver scalable, reliable, and high-performing data solutions that enable strategic decision-making and continuous improvement.
Some Key Accountabilities:
- Design, build, and optimise scalable, high-performance data pipelines and marts using SQL, dbt, BigQuery, and GCP, aligned with data mesh principles
- Lead production deployments and implement automation, orchestration (e.g. Cloud Composer), and AI techniques to improve pipeline efficiency and reliability
- Drive end-to-end technical solution design, conduct in-depth code reviews, and enforce engineering and data governance best practices
- Collaborate with architects, analysts, and product teams to deliver secure, compliant, and production-ready data products
- Mentor engineers, monitor data product performance, and help define the technical standards, tooling, and practices of our growing data engineering team
This is a permanent role with exciting opportunities for growth and learning, open to candidates based in Gadigal Country (Sydney), Naarm (Melbourne).
About You
- Extensive experience (8+ years) as a data engineer, with a strong record of delivering high-quality, production-grade data pipelines and platforms
- Expert-level SQL skills, with deep experience developing and maintaining complex transformations in dbt
- Hands-on experience with GCP data tools, including BigQuery, Cloud Composer, and related services
- Strong understanding of data modelling, lineage, and performance optimisation in a cloud-native environment
- Skilled in testing, monitoring, and ensuring data quality and observability in production environments
- Comfortable leading technical design and problem-solving for complex engineering challenges
- Experienced in mentoring and uplifting engineering capability across a team
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to work across both technical and non-technical teams
- Proactive and pragmatic, with a passion for clean, scalable code and data products
- Motivated to help shape a modern, code-first data engineering function, contributing to our team culture, processes, and technical foundations as we grow
Applications close Sunday 15th June 23:59pm AEDT.
Make sure to discuss all internal applications with your current manager before applying.
Joining IAG you’ll have access to raft of benefits from across the IAG group:
- Boosted superannuation with 13% as standard
- Up to 50% off personal insurance, including home and motor insurance
- 5 myLeave days per year on top of annual leave
- Work from home and many more flexibility options with myFlex
- Dedicated career growth programs, including the award-winning IAG Academy
- Inclusive leave such as public holiday swap and gender affirmation leave
- Discounts on every day and special occasion items
- A certified Family Inclusive WorkplaceTM
- employment type eligibility criteria apply
ABOUT US
As part of IAG you'll enjoy a world of career opportunities, a purpose-led place focused on creating connection and belonging, and where you can create meaningful impact every day and grow your career beyond the expected. That’s not just words. It’s our people promise. We're ready for you with unexpected opportunities for your career, your work-life and your ability to make a difference. We celebrate all viewpoints shaped by life experiences and culture, and are guided by the knowledge and voice of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, businesses, and communities. We collaborate on Indigenous-led solutions that enable growth and create meaningful change for our customers and employees.
We’re ready for you. Apply today.
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