Who We Are
iSelect and Compare the Market are trusted, well-known brands dedicated to helping millions of Australians compare and buy personal finance and household products such as insurance, energy, and loans.
Together, we provide a seamless, customer-focused experience that makes it easier for Australians to find the right products to suit their needs.
What You'll Be Doing
As a Senior Data Engineer (Marketing), you will lead the design, build and optimisation of scalable, reliable and governed data workflows that support marketing, customer engagement, analytics and activation outcomes.
Reporting to the Head of Marketing & Customer Systems, you will own customer and marketing data pipelines, integrations, platform workflows and data quality processes, ensuring solutions are secure, maintainable and operationally robust.
Working across business and technology teams, you will translate complex requirements into practical data-driven solutions, guide technical decisions and deliver workflows that enable customer, marketing, digital and analytics use cases.
This is a senior individual contributor role requiring strong problem-solving skills, sound technical judgement and the ability to independently deliver complex solutions while providing guidance to stakeholders, delivery partners and team members.
Design, build and optimise scalable data workflows, integrations and automation solutions that support marketing, customer, digital and analytics outcomes.
Translate business requirements into practical technical solutions, balancing reliability, privacy, cost, maintainability and operational performance.
Lead the configuration and optimisation of marketing and customer platforms, including audience, event, trigger, journey and activation workflows.
Design, troubleshoot and support complex data pipelines, integrations and transformation processes, ensuring data quality, accuracy and reliability.
Investigate and resolve data, tracking and activation issues, performing validation, reconciliation and root cause analysis where required.
Own delivery from solution design through to implementation, monitoring, support and continuous improvement.
Implement and maintain appropriate governance, documentation, monitoring, alerting, audit and operational controls.




Partner with stakeholders across Marketing, Customer, Product, Data, Engineering and Technology to deliver business outcomes, provide technical guidance and identify opportunities to leverage automation, AI and emerging technologies.
What's In It For You
At Compare the Market and iSelect, we're all about helping people make smart choices – and joining us might just be yours.We offer an environment where your ideas are heard, your contributions are valued, and your growth genuinely matters.
Collaboration is part of our DNA and you'll be joining a supportive, forward-thinking team where you can do meaningful work (and be recognised for it!)
We're guided by three shared values that shape how we work, how we treat each other, and how we show up for our customers - Drive, Noble Intent and All Together.
Plus, we offer a range of great perks to help you thrive both in and out of work:
Vibrant and social community who have annual celebrations, family fun days and regular events
Enjoy versatile work arrangements, including the option of one day working from home each week or a 9-day fortnight
Enjoy additional leave days - 'ME' leave and 'Volunteer Day' leave
Option to purchase additional leave
Return To Work bonus for returning parents
Quarterly Award and Recognition program
What Sets You Apart
Technical Experience
5+ years' experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, data operations, integration engineering, marketing technology, customer systems, or similar technical delivery roles.
Proven experience designing, building and supporting data workflows, integrations, automation solutions and data pipelines across connected business systems.
Strong understanding of APIs, events, schemas, data mappings, webhooks, workflow logic, data transformation patterns and system-to-system data movement.
Solid SQL and data management skills,



including data validation, reconciliation, troubleshooting and data quality management.
Experience managing data extraction, transformation, enrichment, monitoring, failure handling and operational support processes.
Exposure to marketing and customer technologies such as CDPs, marketing automation, web analytics, tag management, audience activation, experimentation, personalisation or CRM-related platforms is highly desirable.
Strong understanding of privacy, consent, governance, auditability, monitoring and operational risk considerations in customer and marketing data environments.
Demonstrated ability to work through ambiguity, gather requirements, design practical solutions, test outcomes, document processes and support production workflows.
Skills & Attributes
Strong ownership mindset, with the ability to take initiatives from discovery and design through to delivery, support and continuous improvement.
Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to balance speed, quality, risk, privacy and maintainability when making technical decisions.
Strong attention to detail across testing, validation, documentation, monitoring and operational handover activities.
Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, translating business needs into practical data and integration solutions.
Collaborative and pragmatic approach to solving complex challenges that span multiple systems, teams and data sources.
Passion for emerging technologies, automation and AI, with a focus on driving operational efficiency and improving customer outcomes.
At Compare the Market and iSelect we're proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and we embrace diversity.
This role is available to candidates with unlimited Australian working rights only.
Sponsorship is not available.
iSelect and Compare the Market, brands of iCompare Group, are committed to protecting your privacy.
All applications and personal information are kept confidential and securely stored in line with Australian privacy laws, used only for recruitment purposes, and not shared with third parties outside iCompare Group without your consent.
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📌 Senior Data Engineer (Marketing) (Brisbane)
🏢 iSelect
📍 Brisbane