Associate Data Platform Engineer

Nine is Australia’s largest locally owned media company – the home of Australia’s most trusted and loved brands spanning News, Sport, Lifestyle, and Entertainment. We pride ourselves on creating the best content, accessed by consumers when and how they want – across Publishing, Broadcasting and Digital.

Nine’s assets include the 9Network, major mastheads such as The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Australian Financial Review, radio stations 2GB, 3AW, 4BC and 6PR, digital properties such as nine.com.au, 9Now, 9Honey, Pedestrian.TV, Drive, subscription video platform Stan and a majority investment in Domain Group.

Our purpose is to shape culture by sparking conversations, challenging perspectives, and entertaining our communities.We bring people together by celebrating the big occasions and connecting the everyday moments. Australia belongs here. We bring our purpose to life via three shared values: We walk the talk, turn over every stone and keep it human.

Job Description

The Data Platform team designs, builds, and maintains the tooling and cloud infrastructure for our data teams, enabling data-informed decision making, highly engaging consumer experiences and effective commercial products.

Our team’s focus is on creating scalable, reusable apps that support core data engineering activities, including workflow orchestration, data transformation, and integrations. We also develop automations and guardrails to enhance data engineering productivity, security, long-term maintainability, ensure quality and improve our operational resilience.

We strive for a safe, collaborative and fun engineering culture that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

Role Responsibilities

• Assist in building, enhancing, and maintaining data platform tools and improving the use of cloud infrastructure.
• Contribute to solution designs, architectures, and the development of standards and practices.
• Fous on observability, monitoring and alerting across the platform and tools to ensure system health, minimise issues and proactively identify and resolve issues when they do happen.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders, including data engineers, product managers, data scientists, analysts, and business users to understand and support their data platform needs
• Communicate technical concepts and solutions effectively to stakeholders with different levels of technical understanding.
• Demonstrate good engineering practices and behaviours
• Enthusiastic, be able to contribute and learn from wider engineering talent in the team
• Stay updated with emerging data engineering technologies and trends, and evaluate their potential benefits to Nine’s data platform.
• Essential qualifications, experience & skills
• Proficieny in at least one programming language (e.g. Python, Java)
• Understanding of good software quality principles, including DRY, unit testing, code reviews, and continuous integration practices.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to troubleshoot data and technology issues.
• Comfortable with Git for version control, including tasks like branching, merging and conflict resolution.

Desirable qualifications, experience & skills

• A bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, software engineering, data engineering, data science, information technology or a related field.
• Experience with a data processing framework like Apache Spark (including PySpark).
• Knowledge of some of the key data tools or frameworks used at Nine, such as DBT, Apache Airflow, Apache Spark, GCP, BigQuery.
• Familiarity with containerisation (Docker) for creating, managing and deploying applications.
• Experience with SQL and database technologies
• Understanding of data warehouse modelling approaches to meet product and business requirements.
• Experience working with Cloud Platforms, including services for data storage, processing, and analytics.
• Experience with cloud deployment and test automation using a CI/CD solution such as Cloud Build or Concourse
• Experience in deploying and managing cloud infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform or similar

Additional Information

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:

At Nine, we are committed to fostering a workforce that embraces all aspects of diversity and inclusion and where practices are equitable to ensure our people experience a sense of belonging. From day one, you'll be encouraged to bring your whole self to work and will be supported to perform at your best. Should you require any adjustments to the recruitment process in order to equitably participate, we encourage you to advise us at the time of application.

We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disabilities, and of all ages, nationalities, backgrounds and cultures.

Disclaimer: Nine does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Nine is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Work rights: Please note to apply for this role you must already have the right to lawfully work and live in Australia.