Senior Analytics Engineer
Pet Circle
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Sydney, NSW, Australia
Posted on Thursday, February 29, 2024
At Pet Circle, we want to create a world where pets and their families are healthy, happy and spend more time together - and we are looking for fantastic people to help us do that!
Over the past ten years, we’ve scaled to become one of Australia's Top 5 eCommerce companies and the No.1 player in the Online Pet industry. We will accelerate our growth as we continue on our mission to disrupt the way that pet parents discover & shop for the products they love.
The pet industry is booming (it’s a $15billion dollar industry!) and pets are holding bigger spaces in our hearts and homes than ever before. Online penetration of the pet industry is going to grow exponentially in the next 5 years. This is a unique opportunity in your career to be part of our exceptional growth story!
Founded and headquartered in Sydney, our team is now over 700 people strong and are based across Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines.
The Opportunity
Pet Circle is implementing a company-wide data governance program to manage the organisation's data assets. The framework encompasses the policies, procedures, roles, responsibilities, and standards that ensure data availability, quality, consistency, and security across the enterprise. Our team’s mission is to leverage data and analytics to drive strategic decision-making, optimise operations, and enrich pet care with personalised experiences for pets and their parents.
The Location
At Pet Circle, collaboration and team connection are critical for success. and the role will be based in Sydney. To ensure you have the opportunity to connect and collaborate face-to-face with your team you will likely be in the office three days per week.
The Technical Environment
Pet Circle runs a Big Query/GCP data environment with several continuously increasing inbound data feeds. While Java is the primary language used to build our internal systems, the Data & Analytics team uses Python. You will work directly in Google Cloud Platform and Big Query, coding extracts and transforms using Python and Dataform (Google’s alternative to DBT). There are relational databases that you will use to inform and build the data models.
What success looks like
The core medium-term goals of the role will be to complete the build-out of this environment by adding and refining data feeds, transforming the data into models and more, and ensuring that these are highly available and highly reliable for use within the business. Expected technical skills are solid SQL and a good understanding of "big data" databases & engineering in Python with a mindset of testable accuracy, observable performance, and sound design.
Soft skills are critical in this role as it will be highly collaborative with the engineering team and data scientists/analysts around the business. Learning what the company needs to succeed in the role will be necessary, so a genuine interest in using data to achieve business goals is required. Expect to collect requirements, propose solutions, and work through post-launch with project leads.
What You’ll Be Working On:
- Write feeds to collect data from external systems
- Write transforms to process data into more information-rich data models
- Ensure data assets are automatically monitored for performance, reliability, and availability
- Create one-off or recurring data sets for statistical or advanced analysis
- Maintenance tasks to handle changing environment (e.g. address upstream schema changes by modifying transform)
- Document processes and data structures so that they are maintainable and usable by others
- Create visualisations and interactive reports
- Perform basic security and privacy management
- Participate in the team roster to support business users using our data and platform
- Work with other teams in scrums, ideation sessions, and various other formats to make the value of Data realisable across different parts of the business
Your Ideal Experience:
- 2-5+ years experience in data engineering or analytics engineering
- Very strong SQL
- Experience in Python
- Experience with BI tools (PowerBI, Tableau), preferably Looker
- Experience modelling data and creating transformation pipelines with Dataform or DBT Worked with cloud-based data warehouses (Redshift, BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, etc)
- Demonstrated experience in collaborating and supporting non-technical users
- Autonomous, reliable, with solid communication skills
Why Join?
We’re passionate about what we do and our love for pets is the centre of our why. Becoming a pawsome Pet Circler means you’re committed to help shape an entire industry - pretty exciting stuff! We’re a stable, innovative and low-ego group of people who relish challenges and aren’t afraid to do what’s right.
Here’s what we stand for;
- We’re Better Together
- We operate with Humble Hearts and Hungry Minds
- We truly believe that Pets Matter; pets and pet parents always have a seat at our table
- We’re Instinctively Curious. Always
What else is in it for you?
- A focus on you and your development - think learning tools, stretch projects, focus groups, secondments and other internal mobility opportunities!
- We’re committed to flexibility and understand that it means different things to different people.
- Your wellbeing is non-negotiable. We seek to provide a collaborative, caring and safe environment, allowing you to present your full self each day.
- Pet Better with up to 50% employee discount, product sample giveaways and Pawrental leave.
- Join us on our animal welfare mission: we donate 10,000kg of pet food and supplies per month to pet shelters and support our communities through team charity volunteer days.
We have an incredibly passionate team, a leading brand, over 700,000 customers and growing, and we’re only just getting started!
At Pet Circle, candidate experience is of utmost importance. We have been recognised as a 2023 Circle Back Initiative Employer and we commit to responding to every application.
Belong at Pet Circle
Our unique expertise unites us to achieve our goal of helping pet parents, pet better. We value diversity in all forms and perspectives, always. Our global team is highly valued for all that they offer, we listen to each other and create a humble and inclusive environment for all to thrive. No matter your background, please apply if our roles ignite an excitement in you to bring your full self to work each day.
Role Location
At Pet Circle we believe that collaboration and team connection is key for success. This role will be based in Sydney with a blended working arrangement of up to 4 days per week in our pet friendly offices and the remainder working from home (or the office, if you prefer!) Our working arrangements and your required office day are subject to change in line with business requirements.
Belong at Pet Circle
Our unique expertise unites us to achieve our goal of helping pet parents, pet better. We value diversity in all forms and perspectives, always. No matter your background, please apply if our roles ignite an excitement in you to bring your full self to work each day.
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