Customer Data Engineer

<meta><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:11.25pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;"=""><span style="font-size:11.25pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Locations: Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane, Adelaide, Australia Remote</span></p><h2 style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:29pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.5px;margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;"=""><b><strong style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:17pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">The Role</strong></b></h2><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;"=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Our Customer Data Engineers own data integration with our customers, ensuring they get value from Gridsight's platform quickly and seamlessly.</span></p><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;"=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">This is equal parts customer-facing and technical. You'll work directly with utility customers to help them understand what data we need, review what they send, give feedback on issues, and get it into the platform. You'll spend roughly half your time in conversations with customers and half heads-down wrangling data, running transforms, and configuring the system.</span></p><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;"=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">What makes this role distinctive is where it's heading. We're continuously building better tooling to streamline data onboarding, and we want someone who accelerates that shift. From day one, we expect you to approach the work with a tool-first mindset — questioning manual steps, reaching for automation, and helping us develop internal products that make it a faster, more repeatable process. Over time, the role can grow in two directions: deeper into product engineering, or deeper into customer ownership and leadership. We'll support whichever direction plays to your strengths.</span></p><h2 style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:29pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.5px;margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;"=""><b><strong style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:17pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">What You'll Do</strong></b></h2><ul data-pattern="discCircleSquare" data-depth="1" style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px="" 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px="" 0px="" 32px;list-style-type:disc;"=""><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Work directly with utility customers to help them understand what data Gridsight requires, in what format, and how to provide it</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Review incoming customer data against expected schemas and quality standards, providing clear and constructive feedback on issues</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Onboard customer data into the platform using tooling and transformation workflows</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Identify and act on opportunities to improve our internal tooling, automating manual steps, improving validation, and making the data onboarding process more efficient, high quality and repeatable</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Drive customer data deliveries to completion — following up, unblocking, and maintaining momentum through the implementation process</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Manage complex customer situations with composure: unrealistic timelines, incomplete data, shifting priorities, and competing demands</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Identify and act on opportunities to automate manual steps, improve tooling, and make the data onboarding process more efficient and repeatable</span></li></ul><h2 style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:29pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.5px;margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;"=""><b><strong style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:17pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">What You'll Bring</strong></b></h2><ul data-pattern="discCircleSquare" data-depth="1" style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px="" 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px="" 0px="" 32px;list-style-type:disc;"=""><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Strong communication skills — you can explain technical data requirements to non-technical people, give constructive feedback, and manage expectations with confidence</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Proactive and self-directed — you see what needs doing and drive it to completion without close supervision</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Strong SQL skills with demonstrated ability to analyse, validate, and wrangle messy datasets</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience with dbt or similar ELT frameworks, and exposure to working within data pipelines</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience in customer-facing or consulting-style technical roles with external stakeholder management</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Comfort with ambiguity — customer data environments are inconsistent and varied, and there won't always be a playbook</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Ability to manage your own time and priorities across multiple concurrent customer engagements</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">3+ years of professional experience in data engineering, data analysis, technical consulting, or a similar role involving both technical and stakeholder-facing work</span></li></ul><h2 style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:29pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.5px;margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;"=""><b><strong style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:17pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">What Would Set You Apart</strong></b></h2><ul data-pattern="discCircleSquare" data-depth="1" style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px="" 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px="" 0px="" 32px;list-style-type:disc;"=""><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">A track record of improving processes — automating manual work, building internal tools, or introducing better ways of working</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Expertise in leveraging AI-assisted development tooling</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience in energy, utilities, or infrastructure domains</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience with data quality frameworks, monitoring, or observability</span></li></ul><h2 style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:29pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.5px;margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;"=""><b><strong style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:17pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">What We Offer</strong></b></h2><ul data-pattern="discCircleSquare" data-depth="1" style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px="" 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px="" 0px="" 32px;list-style-type:disc;"=""><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Competitive salary and equity package</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Remote-first, with head office in Sydney</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">A talented team of engineers, data scientists, and power systems specialists working on hard problems that matter</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">A role with clear growth pathways into product and tooling, or deeper customer ownership</span></li></ul>

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