Senior Manager - Data Engineering

Company Description

Let’s create a more sociable future together

At Endeavour, we’re totally into what we do. With a portfolio that includes Dan Murphy’s, BWS, ALH Hotels, Pinnacle Drinks and more, we love to bring people together. Together we share our passion for our products and industry; it’s what inspires us to dream big, and continue to create new experiences for our customers and teams across Australia. If you thrive on positive energy, we want to meet you!

Job Description

• Be uniquely you, come as you are!
• Hybrid ways of working - 3 days work from office
• High-Impact Strategic Leadership: Shape and own the engineering agenda for an enterprise-wide data transformation

Endeavour Group is executing a transformative strategy to optimise critical business decision-making, with the clear goal of becoming a truly customer and data-led organisation. The Senior Manager of Data Engineering occupies a pivotal leadership position that seamlessly bridges the gap between strategic practice governance and hands-on operational leadership.

Reporting directly to the Head of Data and AI Capabilities within the Digital and Data department, you will oversee a talented team of 10–15 direct reports while collaborating closely with product leads and cross-functional teams across the business. In this role, you will drive the holistic design and optimisation of our Full Stack Data Engineering capabilities, establishing the essential engineering standards and guardrails required for scalable, cloud-native platforms. By governing secure API architectures and production-ready systems, you will play a fundamental role in delivering reliable business outcomes across all domains, from retail and hotels to digital squads, merchandising, and finance.

Sound good? Read on.

Here is a taster of what you can expect in this role:

• Shape Strategic Direction: Define and own the strategic engineering direction and holistic roadmap in close collaboration with product leads, fostering an innovative engineering culture that attracts and retains top talent.
• Lead and Mentor: Act as the lead supervisor for 10–15 engineers, owning the end-to-end professional lifecycle, including recruitment, onboarding, technical mentorship, competency evaluations, and career advancement paths.
• Establish Engineering Standards: Define and embed rigorous SDLC protocols, "Definition of Done" frameworks, and quality metrics to ensure operational consistency and minimise technical debt across all squads.
• Optimize Resource Strategy: Partner with Product Managers to right-size squads, align resource distribution with prioritised domain roadmaps, and eliminate capability-related impediments to maximize delivered value.
• Govern Security & Architecture: Ensure system integrity by implementing critical security guardrails for client-server communication, secure API designs, webhook implementations, and authenticated server-side validations.
• Partner Management: Proactively collaborate with external partners to augment team capabilities and integrate emerging industry trends.

Qualifications

Now let’s talk about you: 

• Team Leadership & People Ops: Extensive experience managing engineering cohorts, conducting performance cycles, and orchestrating resource distribution across multiple delivery squads to support sustainable workloads.
• Cloud & Data Architecture Expertise: Expert knowledge of enterprise platforms like Databricks and Google Cloud Platform, complemented by a sophisticated grasp of Medallion and Kimball modelling frameworks.
• Advanced Technical Execution: Strong proficiency in API development, secure authentication protocols (OAuth), and complex error handling across runtimes such as Python and PySpark.
• Automation & Observability: Proven track record of building robust CI/CD pipelines, implementing Infrastructure-as-Code via Terraform, and executing advanced data validation using dbt frameworks.
• Robust Governance Frameworks: Demonstrated mastery of version control systems, multi-environment deployment strategies, automated quality assurance, and configuration blueprints for low-code platforms.
• Strategic Influence: Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with a proven ability to mentor technical teams, navigate cross-functional dynamics, and translate technical roadmaps into strategic business outcomes.

The benefits are good too! 

• An exclusive discount card for our ALH Hotels pubs & accommodation, BWS, Dan Murphy’s and other Endeavour Group brands. Through our partnership with Woolworths, you'll also enjoy discounts at Woolies supermarkets and BIG W 
• As a valued member of the team, your health and wellbeing is our top priority. You will have access to a range of free services to help you live well and support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing
• Endeavour Group is full of opportunities - use our dedicated learning and development options to grow an idea, yourself, and your career. This is just the start, so dream big
• Find out more about our range of benefits and discounts here

At Endeavour, we value being a workplace where everyone’s welcome - if you meet a number of the requirements (and not all), we encourage you to apply.

Additional Information

We are together creators

With a portfolio that includes Dan Murphy’s, BWS, ALH Hotels, Pinnacle Drinks and more, Endeavour Group is big on sociability. Together we create the moments that bring millions of people together. And together we have more fun, create more opportunities, and score a lot more goals. We’re serious about creating a safe, inclusive and fun place to rock up to where equal opportunity is key, and flexibility is part of how we roll.  

We’re all about creating a more sociable future - for our customers and each other. If this job excites you - and you’re close-enough on the requirements, reach out, we’d love to hear from you.

You can learn more about working with us on LinkedIn or at endeavourgroupcareers.com.au.

Our Talent Team and Hiring Leaders kindly request no unsolicited resumes or approaches from Recruitment Agencies. Endeavour Group is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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