Senior Data Engineer

If you also believe that everyone should be able to achieve their financial potential, then you’ll love contributing to CMC Markets’ company vision of providing the ultimate trading experience. Seize the opportunity to progress your career in the fintech industry by joining a global leader in CFD trading and share investing. Grow yourself personally and professionally with a company that’s growing with you, by global expansion and product offering.

As our Senior Data Engineer, you'll be responsible for designing and building the platforms that power analytics, reporting, and data-driven decisions across the business worldwide. This is a chance to shape and scale CMC’s core data platform, not just contribute to it. You’ll design and engineer robust, cloud-ready data solutions, set best-in-class engineering standards, and influence how data is used across a truly global organisation.

You’ll work as a trusted technical partner to the APAC BI & Data team while collaborating closely with squads across CMC, giving you real visibility, influence, and the opportunity to see your work drive tangible business outcomes.

Why you'll like working here

Just some of the reasons you’ll love working here include:

• Leave benefits: Accrue 5 additional annual leave entitlements each year called My Days, as well as enjoying 5 extra annual leave days once you pass 12 months. Enjoy your birthday off to spend time with family and friends, on us! Utilise a free annual charity day to give back to your community.

• $0 Trades: Staff & family trading accounts with CMC Markets Invest have access to the best brokerage rates in the market - $0 trades for all domestic and international equity orders!

• Continuous learning: Our L&D offering covers both technical and performance training, ensuring you're always learning new skills.

• Unlimited access to a dedicated benefits & wellbeing hub where you can save money through various retailer discounts, and make use of a variety of resources that will enhance your physical and mental wellbeing

• Collaboration: We believe that great things happen when smart people work together, that’s why we’ve made the decision to work five days in the office.

• Office perks: Help yourself to free breakfast cereals, condiments, and coffee to fuel your workday. Our culture club provides opportunities for everyone whether you’re into fitness, pizza making classes, socialising or bringing out your competitive side in trivia or lawn bowls!

What you’ll be working on

• Work as part of a global data platform team to develop and maintain CMC’s modern data platform.  
• Work closely with BI developers, business analysts and internal stakeholders to understand data needs and deliver data in a secure, scalable and efficient way for the whole company  
• Build, and maintain scalable data pipelines to deliver relevant and timely data to our users 
• Develop and optimise ELT processes to transform raw data into meaningful insights 
• Ensure data quality, integrity, and governance by implementing and adhering to best practices across the entire data lifecycle 
• Participate in our on-call rota to monitor data pipelines and infrastructure, troubleshooting issues as they arise to deliver a robust platform for our critical internal use cases 
• Implement and enforce data security and compliance measures across the entire data platform and guide other teams to do the same 

What will help you be successful?

• 5+ years of experience as a Data Engineer or similar role
• Proven hands-on experience with AWS services e.g. S3, VPC, IAM, Glue, Step function etc
• Proven experience in developing and deploying ETL data pipelines over cloud (AWS preferred), hands-on experience with AWS DMS and Airflow is preferable
• Proven hands-on experience with cloud data warehousing solutions.
• Strong proficiency in SQL and experience with scripting languages (Python, Bash)
• Cloud DWH solution with Snowflake
• GitHub, CI/CD process on ETL data pipeline
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills
• Full Australian working rights

The things we live by

CMC Markets is powered by our people. We are an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, where our people feel confident to be themselves, feel valued and are able to do their best work. We don’t just value differences and unique perspectives, we seek them out and we invite them in, because we know it will lead to better outcomes for everyone

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We’re always on the lookout for great people, so even if you don’t feel you are a 100% fit, apply with your up-to-date CV and we’ll consider you for this role and any other suitable opportunities across the business. 

 We look forward to hearing from you! 

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