Data Platform Engineer

This is a 12 month fixed term oppportunity.

A new transformational adventure awaits you… 

How does 5 weeks of annual leave, a fulfilling career you'll genuinely enjoy, and working for a reputable organization that promotes wellbeing and drives digital transformation sound to you?

As one of Forbes 2024 ‘World’s Best Employers’ and Fortune’s ‘World’s Most Admired Companies’ for 2025, Zurich - a leader in the insurance industry, is on a journey towards a brighter future… A brighter future for you - focused on your career, your wellbeing, and your community - as well as our customers and the planet.

Join us on this thrilling journey as we work towards our vision of becoming Australia's leading digital insurer. If you're eager to be part of a values-driven global organisation that's experiencing real growth and transformation, and if you share our commitment to making a tangible difference and taking continuous steps towards a sustainable future for our people, customers, communities, and our planet, then keep reading!

Let’s create a brighter future together, let’s make a difference  

It’s important to know, what you do matters. At Zurich, we don’t just cover, we care.

As a Data Platform Engineer, you’ll sit within our Technology Data team, helping unlock the value of data across the organisation. You’ll play a key role in evolving our Snowflake and dbt platform, focusing on building a reliable, scalable, and well-governed data environment that supports smarter decision making across the business.

This is your opportunity to shape how data is delivered at scale. You’ll improve automation, strengthen platform reliability, and build the foundations that enable teams to confidently deploy, monitor, and trust their data products. Your work will directly support Zurich’s digital transformation and our ambition to become a leading data-driven insurer.

You will also be responsible for the following:

• Driving DataOps practices to improve automation, reducing manual effort and enabling faster, safer releases
• Uplifting CI/CD maturity for dbt workflows, including implementing automated quality checks and deployment controls
• Enhancing platform observability through monitoring, metrics, alerting, and proactive issue prevention
• Embedding governance and security practices, including access design and data protection controls
• Building and maintaining infrastructure-as-code using Terraform to ensure consistency and scalability across the platform
• Partnering with business and technology stakeholders to continuously improve data platform performance and reliability

Important to your success – let’s grow together

You’re someone who enjoys building strong foundations and making things better over time. You take ownership, think ahead, and work collaboratively to create solutions that are reliable, scalable, and easy for others to use.

In order to be successful, you will have the following:

• Strong hands-on experience working with Snowflake in a production environment, including performance, security, and cost optimisation
• Proven experience with dbt Core and dbt Cloud, including implementing CI/CD for data pipelines
• Deep capability in DevOps or DataOps practices with a focus on automation, observability, and deployment reliability
• Experience using Terraform to manage infrastructure-as-code
• Solid AWS knowledge, including IAM, data integrations, and cloud-native services
• Strong SQL and Python skills to build tooling, automate workflows, and support platform capabilities

Belong. Zurich is here to support you 

There are so many reasons why Zurich is a great place to be and the right choice for you, but here are just a few.

• Enjoy 5 weeks of annual leave for permanent staff through our Z leave initiative, along with 15 days of personal/carer’s leave as we empower our people to manage their own wellbeing. Plus, access to Family Care (parental leave).
• Benefit from a hybrid working arrangement – 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home per week for full-time employees.
• Access programs to stay healthy and feel healthier, receive an AUD$500 wellbeing payment per year, and a AUD$295 new starter e-voucher for your work-from-home setup (flex work - hybrid working), along with other great benefits through our Shine portal.
• Grow and thrive in your career with our award-winning training programs. We support and encourage your development because our strength lies in our people, and we value your individuality.
• Work with global, diverse, and inclusive teams; explore your passions, fuel innovation, drive equity, collaborate, and make a positive difference beyond your role.
• Take advantage of global mobility opportunities across more than 200 countries worldwide.
• Volunteer and work in our state-of-the-art Green Star rated offices (when you are in the office) and dress for your day.
• We plant a tree for every new employee.
• Not to mention our various employer of choice awards/memberships – WGEA; Family Inclusive Workplace; Gold AWEI Employer, Pride in Diversity… to name a few.

We could go on, but the main point is that Zurich is a great place to be, where you can truly belong, be yourself, maintain work/life balance, and thrive in a supportive environment.

Zurich is an equal opportunity employer.  We are committed to ensuring that our recruitment process is fair and accessible for all candidates. If you require any special accommodations to participate in our recruitment process, we encourage you to please let us know at the time of your application.  

So, if you want to come on an adventure that will build a brighter future together, and feel a sense of togetherness, then please apply today to start your adventure!