Head of Engineering, Payments
Salla E-Commerce Platform
AWSCloud
Salary
💰 A$190,000 - A$200,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
AWSAzureCloudETLPythonSQL
About the role
- Lead and champion Future Group's data strategy, aligning it to business goals
- Identify high-impact data opportunities, shape roadmaps, and explore emerging technologies to deliver measurable business value through innovative, forward-thinking solutions.
- Establish and lead fit-for-purpose data governance, ensuring data quality, integrity, privacy, security, and regulatory compliance (e.g., APRA, AML/KYC) within a financial services context.
- Oversee metadata management and data lineage to ensure traceability, auditability, and ethical handling of data across the business.
- Lead the delivery of actionable insights through reporting, dashboarding, and advanced analytics (including machine learning) to drive strategic and operational decision-making.
- Define and track KPIs to clearly demonstrate the business value of data initiatives and foster a culture of data-informed performance.
- Act as a strategic partner to business units, translating their needs into actionable analytical solutions and embedding data into day-to-day decision-making.
- Guide the development of targeted insights, reporting, and self-service analytics to drive value across departments and foster a collaborative, data-informed culture.
- Build strong relationships across the business, translating complex data needs into clear solutions and influencing strategic decisions.
- Act as a key advocate for data, effectively communicating its value and fostering cross-functional collaboration.
- Oversee data tech stack selection and vendor management to ensure scalable, cost-effective solutions aligned with business strategy.
- Manage the team’s budget and stay across emerging technologies relevant to financial services.
- Provide strategic oversight of data architecture and infrastructure, ensuring solutions are scalable, performant, and future-ready.
- Support technical leadership by enabling the team and championing best practices across engineering and delivery.
- Build and develop a high-performing data team, with a strong focus on mentoring junior engineers and analysts.
- Foster a data-literate, insight-driven culture and shape the future growth of the data function.
Requirements
- Believes in Future Group’s mission and has a passion for moving Australia’s money out of fossil-fuels and into renewable energy
- Believes in using the power of money to build a sustainable and equitable world
- Has proven experience in data management leadership roles, with the ability to lead, mentor, and grow junior technical team members.
- Is a strategic thinker with a pragmatic, results-oriented approach, equally comfortable shaping big picture strategy or rolling up their sleeves in execution mode
- Communicates clearly and persuasively with both technical and non-technical audiences, and can confidently navigate senior stakeholder conversations.
- Has demonstrated experience in establishing and managing robust, fit-for-purpose data governance frameworks.
- Brings s a strong understanding of data security principles and compliance requirements relevant to financial services (e.g. ISO 27001, CPS 234, AML/KYC-related data requirements).
- Essential Hands-on Expertise:
- Data architecture design and data modelling (relational, dimensional), and building scalable data pipelines (ETL/ELT).
- Expert SQL and strong experience with Python (or similar scripting language) for data manipulation and automation.
- Demonstrable experience with data warehousing solutions (e.g. Databricks) and data lake concepts/technologies.
- Experience with cloud platforms (ideally AWS, Azure) and their associated data services.
- Familiarity with BI and data visualisation tools (e.g. Power BI)
- Some nice-to-haves but are not essential are:
- Experience in the financial services industry
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