EVT Sydney Head Office - Head of Data Platforms & Engineering

Posted: Tuesday, 06 May 2025
Valid Thru: Thursday, 05 June 2025
Index Requested on: 05/06/2025 07:17:41
Indexed on: 05/06/2025 07:17:41

Location: Sydney, NSW, 2000, AU

Industry: Hospitality & Leisure
Occupational Category: 15-1051.51 - Computer and Mathematics
Type of Employment: FULL_TIME

EVT is hiring!

Description:

Being a part of EVT means believing in changing the game. Why? Because no one wants ordinary. If you're seeking to be part of the kind of wow-factor moments you can help shape, then you've come to the right place.

About EVT:
As market-leading experience creators, we bring to life some of the best-known brands and properties in entertainment, ventures, and travel. Our portfolio includes over 140 entertainment experiences like Event Cinemas and Moonlight Cinemas, 150 award-winning restaurants and bars, and 80+ hotels, including QT, Rydges, Atura, LyLo, Independent Collection by EVT and Thredbo. Our ventures include a ~$2.3B property portfolio and hotel management, just to name a few.


About the Role

  • Responsible for leading the EVT Data Engineering team, this hands-on role defines and executes the technology roadmap for EVT’s Data & Insight platforms which support business reporting, insights, analytics and data science capabilities. This role supports EVT strategic pillars Grow Revenue Above Market, Maximise Asset Performance and Business Transformation.
  • The role scope includes all Entertainment, Travel & Corporate data platforms including performance reporting, financial reporting and customer data warehouse / mar-tech, Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Large Language Models (LLM) and Machine Learning (ML).
  • The role prioritises security, governance and compliance objectives and continually advances EVT security posture in relation to Data Platforms.

Key Responsibilities

Data Assets, Platforms & Architecture

  • Collaborate with Data & Insights team leads to understand the strategic data requirements, challenges
  • Design & execute technical roadmaps to deliver resilient, performant data platforms aligned to business outcomes.
  • Develops robust processes to ensure the accuracy, stability & reliability of data output.
  • Designs solutions informed by observability, monitoring, security, data lineage objectives.
  • Able to manage pragmatic data architectures balancing outcomes with long term maintainability.
  • Implements AI, LLM & ML platforms to enable deep insights, sentiment analysis, propensity models.

Leadership

  • Lead, coach and mentor data engineering team members ensuring best practices, agreed architecture principles are embedded in new and existing data platform initiatives.
  • Foster positive working relationships between data engineering team, IT teams and Business Insights team members
  • Pro-actively assesses future data platform landscape to inform IT roadmap, investment required and adherence to security & governance objectives.
  • Responsible for sourcing and managing external data specialist vendors to augment in house capabilities.


Skills & Experience

  • Has a deep understanding of data platforms including Matillion, Snowflake, PowerBI, AWS.
  • Deep knowledge of ETL, Data Pipelines, Data Lakes, Real Time Streaming, AI/ML, Python.
  • Security & Privacy: Understand of PCI-DSS, Privacy Principles, Cyber Security and Secure coding standards, Obfuscation and data minimisation.
  • Product Knowledge: Constantly assess the technology landscape to ensure the IT Roadmap is aligned to BI & Analytics objectives.

Benefits & Perks

  • Incredible team member discounts from your first day on-the-job.
  • 50% off stays at EVT hotels – Rydges, QT, Atura, Lylo and more.
  • $2 movie tickets, plus Moonlight, Gold Class, Candy Bar discounts and more.
  • Awesome winter and summer savings and discounts at Thredbo.
  • Rapid career growth opportunities through our EVT network.
  • Local community involvement, volunteering and charitable giving.
  • Australia and NZ’s largest and most diverse experiences company

Become an EVT experience creator, opportunity taker, the ultimate Daymaker. Join and make a positive impact on our people, communities, and environment every day.

Responsibilities:

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Educational requirements:

  • high school

Desired Skills:

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Benefits:

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