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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Hybrid
We're REA
With bold and ambitious goals, REA Group is changing the way the world experiences property. No matter where you're at on your property journey, we're here to help with every step - whether that's finding or financing your next home.
Our people are the key to our success. At the heart of everything we do, is a thriving culture centred around high performance and care. We are purpose driven and collaborative, which drives innovation and our ability to make a real impact. As such, we’re proud to have been named in Australia’s “Top 5” Best Workplaces two years in a row, as well as being recognised as a Best Workplace for Women.
Launchpad is REA’s central platform engineering group: the engine behind our engineering culture, providing secure, consistent and observable platforms and services that accelerate product delivery across REA. The Data Intelligence tribe exists to make it easy to understand, protect and leverage REA data. It enables REA to become a data-driven powerhouse through governed platforms and democratised services for data processing and management.
A core part of the tribe’s mission is establishing and evolving REA’s implementation of Data Mesh. Data Mesh enables data ownership to move closer to the teams and domains that understand the data best, supported by shared principles, platform capabilities, standards and governance that make data discoverable, trustworthy, secure, interoperable and useful at scale.
As Principal Engineer – Data Mesh, you’ll be a pivotal technical leader for the Data Intelligence tribe and a key contributor to REA’s enterprise data strategy. You’ll define and drive the technical direction for REA’s Data Mesh implementation across multiple squads, domains and engineering teams.
You’ll connect enterprise architecture, data strategy, product outcomes and engineering execution, making sure Data Mesh is practical, adopted and continuously improved — not just a theoretical model. You’ll remain hands-on: shaping architecture, validating solutions, working through complex technical problems and partnering with teams to deliver software and data capabilities using agile practices.
You’ll influence without relying on line authority, align technical strategies across multiple squads, and help teams make sound, sustainable decisions across the full lifecycle of data products. You’ll champion federated data ownership, supported by a strong self-serve data platform and effective federated computational governance. You’ll also help establish the patterns, guardrails and developer experience that enable domain teams to publish and consume high-quality data products safely and independently.
In this role, you will:
You bring extensive experience providing technology leadership to engineering teams, together with strategic and architectural guidance. You have expertise in developing long-term system architecture strategies and proficiency in cloud technologies and Data Mesh.
You’ll also bring:
The physical, mental, emotional and financial health of our people is something we’ll never stop caring about. This is a place to learn and grow.
Some of the ways we help our people include:
We’re 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. 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.
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