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Technical Lead - Data Platform & Engineeringcarsales · Melbourne, VIC, au
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Technical Lead - Data Platform & Engineering

🗓️ Posted 2026-09-03 Melbourne, VIC, au Full-time Hybrid ICT
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market A$10,833–A$15,000/mo

About the Company

At carsales, we're all about making buying and selling a great experience. Since 1997, we've been evolving with the new economy to help people choose how they move - today and tomorrow. With a vision to be the global leader in online vehicle marketplaces, we're transforming how people buy and sell across the world. Our Data Team has embarked on an exciting phase of transformation anchored to our vision of turning carsales' data into compounding advantage - for every buyer, seller, dealer and team. A career in Data at carsales means being at the heart of decision-making, powering the insights behind every product, feature, and experience we deliver to millions of users. The team builds scalable data platforms, maintains trusted and high-quality data pipelines, and enables advanced analytics - empowering teams across the business to make smarter, faster, and more customer-centric decisions. The data team is the engine behind carsales' shift from running the marketplace to being the intelligence behind it. We embrace hybrid working - combining the flexibility of remote work with the energy and connection of in-person collaboration.

About the Role

As Technical Lead for Data Platform Engineering, you'll operate beyond individual domain ownership - providing cross-team architectural direction, running technical discovery, and acting as a technical partner to product and engineering leadership. This is an individual contributor role with informal mentoring responsibility, not a people-management position.

Responsibilities

  • ● Collaborate closely with our Product & Technology Teams in delivery of our collaboratively built strategy and roadmaps, to help understand customer lifecycle, drive engagement and execute on new products with customer experience always top of mind.
  • ● Provide architectural direction across DPE's platform ensuring consistency and technical coherence across domains owned by different Senior Data Engineers.
  • ● Act as a technical partner to product and engineering leadership, shaping technical strategy rather than only executing against a backlog.
  • ● Set and evolve engineering standards across the team - code quality, testing, CI/CD, security, and data governance - ensuring they scale across multiple domains and squads.
  • ● Provide technical oversight on major initiatives such as data democratisation and platform modernisation.
  • ● Mentor Senior and Mid-level engineers, particularly on complex, cross-domain problems and architectural judgement.
  • ● Represent DPE in cross-functional architecture and technical forums, building trust and alignment with adjacent teams (analytics, product, and other engineering groups).
  • ● Identify emerging technology and tooling opportunities (including AI-augmented engineering) and bring evaluated, adoptable recommendations to the team.
  • ● Help resolve the most ambiguous or highest-impact technical problems, stepping in where scope crosses multiple domains.

Benefits

  • ● Recognition as one of Australia's Best Workplaces by Great Place to Work .
  • ● Recognition as a Family Friendly Workplace.
  • ● Recognition as a WORK180 endorsed employer.
  • ● A highly engaged, collaborative team where you'll learn from exceptional talent.
  • ● 24 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers.
  • ● Four weeks paid parental leave for secondary caregivers.
  • ● Six weeks paid gender-affirming care leave.
  • ● Regular hackathons.
  • ● Continuous learning opportunities.
  • ● Wellbeing initiatives that support your mental, emotional, and physical health.