Who We Are
iSelect and Compare the Market are trusted, well-known brands dedicated to helping millions of Australians compare and buy personal finance and household products such as insurance, energy, and loans. Together, we provide a seamless, customer-focused experience that makes it easier for Australians to find the right products to suit their needs.
What You’ll Be Doing
Reporting to the Data Engineering Manager, the Senior Data Engineer designs, builds, and evolves scalable, secure cloud data solutions supporting business intelligence, advanced analytics, machine learning, and AI.
You’ll provide senior technical expertise across data architecture, engineering standards, platform optimisation, automation, and DataOps/MLOps, helping turn trusted data into strategic business value.
- Design and support scalable cloud data warehouse, lakehouse, and AI-enabled platform solutions.
- Build and optimise batch, streaming, and near real-time data pipelines and products for analytics and AI workloads.
- Develop intelligent automation using AI agents, agentic workflows, LLMs, orchestration frameworks, and modern AI platforms.
- Enable advanced analytics and AI through AI-ready datasets, vector search, RAG architectures, and scalable data solutions.
- Champion DataOps, SecOps, CI/CD, IaC, automated testing, observability, platform automation, and responsible data access.
- Maintain strong data governance, security, privacy, and quality while improving scalability, performance, innovation, and cost efficiency.
What’s In It For You
At Compare the Market and iSelect, we’re all about helping people make smart choices – and joining us might just be yours. We offer an environment where your ideas are heard, your contributions are valued, and your growth genuinely matters. Collaboration is part of our DNA and you’ll be joining a supportive, forward-thinking team where you can do meaningful work (and be recognised for it!)
We’re guided by three shared values that shape how we work, how we treat each other, and how we show up for our customers - Drive, Noble Intent and All Together.
Plus, we offer a range of great perks to help you thrive both in and out of work:
- Vibrant and social community who have annual celebrations, family fun days and regular events
- Enjoy flexible work arrangements, including the option of one day working from home each week or a 9-day fortnight
- Enjoy additional leave days - ‘ME’ leave and ‘Volunteer Day’ leave
- Free coffee on Mondays
- Option to purchase additional leave
- Return To Work bonus for returning parents
- Quarterly Award and Recognition program
What Sets You Apart
- 7+ years’ data engineering experience, including 5+ years building cloud data platforms across AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Strong experience with modern data platforms and architectures, including Databricks, Snowflake, Fabric, data lakes, lakehouses, Data Mesh, and Medallion.
- Advanced Python, SQL and PySpark skills, with experience building batch, streaming, and near real-time data pipelines.
- Strong DataOps experience across CI/CD, IaC, automated testing, observability, orchestration, and platform automation.
- Experience with data modelling, governance, quality, lineage, security, and access controls.
- Experience supporting ML and GenAI use cases, including AI-ready datasets, MLOps, RAG, vector/semantic search, embeddings, and intelligent automation.
- Strong technical leadership, architecture, stakeholder engagement, and mentoring capability.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Analytics, IT, or a related discipline.
Interested? Let’s chat!
At Compare the Market and iSelect we’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and we embrace diversity.
This role is available to candidates with unlimited Australian working rights only. Sponsorship is not available.
iSelect and Compare the Market, brands of iCompare Holdings, are committed to protecting your privacy. All applications and personal information are kept confidential and securely stored in line with Australian privacy laws, used only for recruitment purposes, and not shared with third parties outside iCompare Holdings without your consent.
At Compare the Market and iSelect we’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and we embrace diversity.
This role is available to candidates with unlimited Australian working rights only. Sponsorship is not available.
iSelect and Compare the Market, brands of iCompare Group, are committed to protecting your privacy. All applications and personal information are kept confidential and securely stored in line with Australian privacy laws, used only for recruitment purposes, and not shared with third parties outside iCompare Group without your consent.