Data Engineering Manager
MYOB
Data Science
Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Posted on Jun 6, 2025
We’re a leading business management solution with a core purpose: helping more businesses in Australia and New Zealand start, survive and succeed.
At MYOB, we believe what’s good for one business is good for all business—and for all of us. Whether you support them, work for them, or dream of building your own, when businesses run smoothly, everybody feels it. Owners, employees, customers, suppliers—even families. That’s why we’re here: to give every person in business the tools they need to focus on what really matters and do Big Things—whatever big looks like for them.
And for you? Joining MYOB means being part of that impact. It means using your skills to help businesses thrive, shaping the future of work, and growing alongside the people and communities we support. Because while we’re the business of software, we’re really in the business of people. And that makes MYOB Everyone’s Business.
Be at the Forefront of AI Innovation at MYOB
At MYOB, we empower small businesses with transformative technology! We're looking for a Data Engineering Manager to join us and lead the design and delivery of scalable, high-quality data solutions that power insights, AI features, and innovation.
As Data Engineering Manager at MYOB, you’ll lead the charge in shaping how data flows across the business – building reliable pipelines, championing quality, and making data accessible and impactful.
You'll guide a high-performing team, set technical direction, and collaborate across product, tech, and AI to deliver smart, scalable data solutions. This is your chance to drive innovation, unlock insights, and help power the next generation of data-driven experiences.
The Role
As a foundational member of the Data and AI team, this is a unique opportunity to:
- Define and deliver a strategic roadmap, aligned to business goals and driving greater value from data.
- Lead the design, build, and maintenance of scalable, reliable, and governed data flows, with clear standards and observability.
- Prepare data and metadata for AI products and analytics, and enable insight from structured data across teams.
- Mentor and lead a high-performing data engineering team, boosting collaboration, productivity, and retention.
- Promote collaboration across engineering, data science, analytics, and business teams to ensure clear, effective solution delivery.
- Build and uphold systems for data quality, security, privacy, and governance, ensuring trusted and compliant data use.
- Champion continuous improvement to lift the team’s efficiency, capability, and impact.
What You’ll Bring
- Extensive knowledge of data engineering principles, varied data tools and paradigms, cloud platforms, and advanced coding skills in Python and SQL.
- Proven software engineering chops, including TDD, clean code practices, and hands-on experience with CI/CD and DevOps.
Critical thinking, with a history of crafting scalable data infrastructure and pipelines that drive business impact.
- Great collaboration skills, with the ability to partner effectively across business, product, and technology teams.
- Data quality and governance know-how, with experience building frameworks that ensure trust, compliance, and distributed accountability.
- Strong business insight, with exposure to data needs across finance, customer and product.
- AI/ML enablement experience, supporting GenAI and machine learning use cases, including MLOps integration.
- Inspiring leadership, with tried experience growing and mentoring high-performing data engineering teams.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Data Science, Machine - - - - Learning, or a related field, and relevant certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Data Engineer) are highly desirable.
Ready to Build the Future?
If you’re passionate about Data and AI and want to be part of a team that’s shaping the future of business technology, we’d love to hear from you!
Our Culture & Benefits
At MYOB our values are at the heart of everything we do. If you want to work and collaborate where opinions are valued, and your ideas can make a difference, come to a place where Your Work Matters.
🟣Enjoy a flexible, hybrid workplace that brings balance to how you work, all of our centrally located offices come together for a number of in-person celebrations and social events
🟣Set up your home office with a little financial help from us, and take advantage of great corporate discounts and vouchers from top retailers
🟣Benefit from our partnership with Sonder, which supports the wellbeing of our team members
🟣Unlock your potential via in-house training and programs, LinkedIn Learning, conferences and study assistance
🟣Access to a variety of leave options available to support your wellbeing, including up to an additional four weeks of purchased leave, generous parental leave, domestic violence leave, transgender leave, community leave, study leave, and more
🟣Join our communities, built around ‘Wellness’, ‘Belonging’ and the ‘Planet’ where you can make a meaningful contribution
At MYOB, we’re all about embracing difference and backing people to be their true selves. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and big believers that the best hires don’t just fit our culture — they add to it. That means bringing your unique contributions, lived experiences, and fresh perspective to the table.
Love the sound of MYOB and this role but don’t tick every single box in this ad? Apply anyway! Studies show that women and underrepresented groups often hold back if they don’t meet every requirement — but we want to hear from you.
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