Big Red Group is the largest experience network in Australia and New Zealand. A powerful connector that provides more than 3000 experience operators with quality customers and the tourism industry with trusted intelligence and partnership.
Australian owned, Big Red Group operates an industry-leading platform, enabling the wholesale distribution of experiences through domestic and international partners, powering its renowned domestic marketplaces RedBalloon, Adrenaline, Experience Oz, and Everything NZ. Equipping in-destination experience retailing through hotels and travel agents through its Local Agent offering. As well as a suite of software products and services to support experience operators grow their businesses.
With a purpose to ‘shift the way people experience life’, Big Red Group seeks to encourage people to choose ‘stories over stuff’ at every opportunity. Together with our experience operators, we are on track to deliver an experience every second by 2030.
We are The Experience Network.
The Role
Big Red Group (BRG) is at the forefront of redefining experiences through technology. We are evolving into a platform-focused business, uniting our Engineering, Product, Data & Martech, and Infrastructure teams to drive unparalleled customer value and growth.
As a core member of our unified Data & Martech team, you will sit at the intersection of data engineering and business analysis. Your mission is to transform raw data into clean, well-modelled, and performant datasets that power our entire experience ecosystem. You won’t just build pipelines; you will design the logic that defines how BRG understands its customers.
Core Activities
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Architect the Transformation Layer: Design and maintain enterprise grade data models and pipelines within our modern cloud stack, to support BI, reporting, data science and analytical applications.
- Drive Commercial Insight: Understand and architect financial models that tracks the end-to-end voucher lifecycle—from liability to redemption.
- Bridge the Gap: Act as the technical translator between data engineering and business units (Finance, Marketing, Product), ensuring that data is discoverable, documented, and directly aligned with commercial KPIs.
- Optimise the Martech Stack: Unlock the full potential of our marketing technology by ensuring seamless data flow that drives conversion and increases customer lifetime value.
- Elevate Standards: Bring a software engineering mindset to analytics—implementing version control, testing frameworks, and strong data governance to ensure our commercial reporting is reliable and trustworthy.
Experience & Skills Required
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Commercial Fluency: The ability to translate business requirements into technical ERDs, data flows, and database schemas. You understand the unit economics of a platform business.
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Data Modelling: Proficiency in SQL-based modelling (Python is a plus). You have experience designing scalable schemas that serve both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
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Modern Data Stack Expertise: Hands-on experience with cloud data warehouses (Snowflake preferably) and transformation workflows using dbt.
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Data Integration & Orchestration: Experience managing ELT/ETL processes.
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Actionable Visualisation: Skilled at using business intelligence tools (Tableau preferably) to build dashboards that don’t just show data but answer critical commercial questions.
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Growth Mindset: Comfort working in a fast-paced environment and the ability to navigate ambiguity to deliver high-impact results.
Why work for us?
At Big Red Group, we’re a technology-led business that embraces innovation and change in an ambitious environment. Here, you’ll join a passionate team dedicated to delivering exceptional experiences and be part of a company recognised as an employer of choice in Australia.
What Sets Us Apart
To shift the way people experience life, we start from within. At Big Red Group, we want all of our people to have an exceptional employee experience, where you are Growing, Celebrating and Thriving with our core themes of Community and Connection uniting us throughout.
What This Looks Like
Growing
- Individual and team-based strengths assessments to better understand how we can perform at our best
- A LinkedIn Learning licence with bespoke Content Collections per team to ensure we’re developing the skills we need to excel in our roles
- Access to 6 career coaching conversations per year
Celebrating
- Monthly All Hands celebration
- BRG Community Days
Thriving
- Flexible Public Holidays
- 30 Days Work from Anywhere
- Employee Resources Group
- Paid Parental Leave
Community and Connection
- Weekly catered lunch on Mondays
- Experiences@Work
At Big Red Group, we believe diverse perspectives drive innovation and success. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace where everyone – regardless of background, identity, or ability – has the opportunity to thrive.
