Insurance and utilities comparison platform serving Australian households
iSelect operates a comparison and switching platform for household financial products across insurance, energy, broadband, and loans. The tech stack is cloud-native and data-heavy—AWS, Azure, GCP, Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, with Apache Airflow and Prefect orchestrating pipelines—reflecting an organization deep in a data modernization cycle. Active projects span cloud migration, real-time monitoring, data governance frameworks, and cost optimization, paired with hiring concentrated in engineering and data roles, indicating substantial infrastructure work underway.
iSelect helps Australian consumers compare and switch between health insurance, car insurance, home insurance, pet insurance, travel insurance, home loans, utilities, broadband, and mobile plans. Operating since 2000, the company now employs 501–1,000 people from its Docklands headquarters. The business model relies on comparison data, customer switching transactions, and provider partnerships. Current operational focus spans cloud infrastructure adoption, data pipeline modernization, governance frameworks, and cost management across multi-cloud deployments (AWS, Azure, GCP).
iSelect runs on AWS, Azure, and GCP. The stack includes Databricks, Snowflake, and BigQuery for analytics; Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch for observability; and Apache Airflow and Prefect for pipeline orchestration.
Key projects include cloud enterprise data platform adoption, real-time monitoring dashboards, data governance frameworks, data cataloguing, CI/CD pipeline deployment, and cloud cost optimization. Migration roadmaps and legacy data migration are active workstreams.
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