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Data Platform Manager

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full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Australia

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Tech Stack

SQL

About the role

  • Build and lead a high-performing Data and Analytics Engineering function operating effectively across three time zones, with clear ownership, pace, and accountability
  • Design and evolve a scalable, resilient data platform that underpins trusted reporting, analytics, and AI use cases across the business
  • Set and execute a clear data platform strategy and roadmap that aligns to business priorities and unlocks measurable value
  • Enable AI-powered, self-service analytics so teams can answer their own questions quickly, confidently, and without bottlenecks
  • Dramatically improve data reliability, performance, and trust, making data a dependable foundation for decision-making
  • Reduce analytics backlog by improving tooling, data models, and ways of working, shifting the team from reactive delivery to proactive enablement
  • Act as a strategic partner to Product, Engineering, Finance, Marketing, and Operations, translating business needs into durable data solutions
  • Communicate progress, risks, and trade-offs clearly to senior stakeholders, enabling informed decisions and timely course-correction
  • Create a culture of ownership, pragmatism, and delivery, where teams take responsibility for outcomes and ship meaningful improvements consistently

Requirements

  • Proven experience leading Data Engineering and Analytics Engineering teams
  • Strong hands-on background with modern data stacks
  • Comfortable being hands-on while managing and mentoring senior engineers
  • Product mindset: focused on outcomes, adoption, and impact
  • Strong bias for action and comfort operating with ambiguity
  • Excellent communicator in a distributed, cross-timezone environment
  • Able to challenge ideas constructively and make pragmatic decisions
  • Background working in fast-growing or product-led tech companies
  • Experience building or evaluating Text to SQL or AI-powered analytics tools (added bonus)
  • Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools (e.g. Claude, OpenAI/Codex, GitHub Copilot) (added bonus)
  • Experience scaling self-service analytics platforms (added bonus)
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Hard Skills & Tools
Data EngineeringAnalytics EngineeringData platform designData reliabilityData performanceData modelsText to SQLAI-powered analytics toolsSelf-service analytics platformsModern data stacks
Soft Skills
LeadershipCommunicationStrategic partnershipProblem-solvingMentoringOwnershipPragmatismBias for actionAdaptabilityConstructive challenge