Engineering Manager - Data [T500-20240]

About REA Group :

In 1995, in a garage in Melbourne, Australia, REA Group was born from a simple question : “Can we change the way the world experiences property?” Could we? Yes. Are we done? Never. Fast forward 30 years, REA Group is a market leader in online real estate in three continents and continuing to grow rapidly across the globe. The secret to our growth is staying true to that ‘day one’ mindset; the hunger to innovate, the ambition to change the world, and the curiosity to reimagine the future. Our new Tech Center in Cyber City is dedicated to accelerating REA Group’s global technology delivery through relentless innovation. We’re looking for the best technologists, inventors and leaders in India to join us on this exciting new journey. If you’re excited by the prospect of creating something magical from scratch, then read on.

What the role is all about :

The purpose of the Commercial Data team in Advertising is to develop leading property and market data insights to power Real Commercial products. This squads sits in the Real Commercial tribe, the #1 place for commercial property and data in Australia.

While no two days are likely to be the same, your typical responsibilities will include :

• End to end technical delivery of complex initiatives under our product management pipeline using agile methods and frameworks working with cross-disciplinary teams.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to the team, serving as a subject matter expert in data engineering and related technologies.
• Contribute to the design and architecture of scalable, efficient, and secure data solutions, considering long-term scalability and maintainability.
• Provide guidance, support, and leadership to the team.
• Establish effective ways of working within and across teams.
• Embrace continuous learning, leveraging latest development trends to solve complex challenges.
• Drive delivery practices running agile scrum ceremonies and producing agile artefacts.
• Contribute to the adoption of best practices, coding standards, and engineering principles across the team to ensure a high-quality and maintainable codebase.
• Collaborate with the development team to implement shift-left testing practices, ensuring early and frequent testing throughout the development lifecycle.
• Conduct performance analysis, optimization, and tuning of data processing workflows and systems to enhance efficiency and meet performance targets.
• Support the team’s iterations, scope, capacity, risks, issues, and timelines.
• Participate in technical discussions, code reviews, and architectural reviews to maintain code quality, identify improvement opportunities, and ensure adherence to standards.
• Mentor and coach engineers, fostering their professional growth, assisting them in overcoming technical challenges and create a culture of quality and efficiency, leading to reduced time-to-market and enhanced product quality.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define data governance policies, data quality standards, and data management processes.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives, such as automation, tooling enhancements, and process optimizations, to increase productivity and operational efficiency.
• Act as a strong advocate for data-driven decision-making, promoting a data-driven culture within the organization

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Our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion :

We are committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity, equity and inclusion. We believe teams with diverse ideas and experiences are more creative, more effective and fuel disruptive thinking - be it cultural and ethnic backgrounds, gender identity, disability, age, sexual orientation, or any other identity or lived experience. We know diverse teams are critical to maintaining our success and driving new business opportunities. If you've got the skills, dedication and enthusiasm to learn but don't necessarily meet every single point on the job description, please still get in touch.