Senior Data & AI Engineer

Are you ready to join the winning team at The Lottery Corporation?

We power Australia's biggest lottery games - and we're one of the world's top-performing lottery businesses.

As the home of The Lott and Keno, we're building on decades of excitement and life-changing wins, bringing our games to every state and territory except WA.

For more than a century, we've been playing our role in creating positive impacts by delivering winning moments every day to our people, our customers, retailers, partners and our community.

But we're not standing still. We're evolving into an entertainment company - more customer-obsessed, more agile and driven by real outcomes.

Because at our core, it's simple: we create winning moments - and we're building the next chapter as the team behind Where Australia Comes to Play.

Join us!

We're looking for a Senior Data & AI Engineer to help transform how data is built, moved and used across our business.

You'll join us at an interesting point in our journey, helping modernise our enterprise data landscape as we move workloads from established platforms onto Google Cloud Platform, while building new data pipelines, models and foundations for analytics and AI.

What you'll do

• Build modern data pipelines and transformations on GCP
• Develop scalable data models using BigQuery and dbt
• Modernise legacy workloads for our cloud environment
• Build and orchestrate pipelines through Cloud Composer
• Develop batch, streaming and event-driven data solutions
• Optimise data solutions for performance and cost
• Build reusable components for AI and agentic solutions
• Embed CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code practices
• Troubleshoot complex data and pipeline issues
• Partner with the business to understand data requirements
• Mentor engineers and uplift modern engineering practices

What you'll bring

• Demonstrated experience across data, analytics or AI engineering
• Strong SQL, Python and data modelling capability
• Experience building production data solutions in cloud environments
• GCP experience, or strong transferable cloud data platform experience
• Enterprise-scale data warehousing, ETL and migration experience
• Experience with modern transformation and orchestration tooling
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
• CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code and modern engineering experience
• Confidence partnering with technical and business stakeholders
• Curiosity and an AI-first mindset towards building and problem-solving

What you'll get

Not only will you receive an awesome candidate experience from our caring Talent team, but you'll get a genuine feel for who we are and what it's like to be part of our team.

The benefits of working with The Lottery Corporation are pretty good. Just to name a few:

• Balance work and life with our 'flex for great outcomes' approach - hybrid working, plus a range of generous leave options.
• Reward and recognition programs at all levels. Your hard work won't go unnoticed.
• Ignite your potential with our dedicated learning and development platform to support your bright future.
• We empower careers to grow from within, your next opportunity is already here!
• A true sense of belonging. We're committed to Inclusion & Diversity with a range of initiatives such as our Gender Affirmation Support, employee inclusion networks and diversity memberships and celebrations.
• Make positive impacts with opportunities to volunteer with our community partners. We'll also dollar match fundraising efforts of our employees lending their support to registered charities.

We're committed to providing a safe, respectful and supportive work environment. We encourage you to let us know if we can make any accommodations, so the process can be more user friendly for you.

We acknowledge and pay respect to the traditional custodians of the lands on which our offices, retail outlets and venues operate. We acknowledge the inextricable link First Peoples of Australia have with the land past and present.

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