Senior AWS Data Engineer Contract Your new company
A major public-sector organisation delivering large-scale digital and data initiatives. You will be joining a high-performing team focused on modern data engineering practices, cloud technologies, and citizen-centric service delivery.
Your new role

- As a Senior Data Engineer, you will contribute to a significant analytics project, designing and building scalable data solutions. You will develop secure REST APIs, build and optimise ETL pipelines, and deliver cloud-native capabilities using AWS services.
- Design, develop, and test secure, scalable REST APIs
- Build and optimise ETL pipelines for performance and reliability
- Develop workflow orchestration for dependencies and scheduling
- Package application workloads using Docker
- Build cloud-native solutions using AWS services
- Ensure security, governance, and best practices are followed
- Identify bottlenecks and implement performance improvements
- Implement structured logging and auditing
- Conduct testing, troubleshooting, and optimisation
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to meet project milestones

What you'll need to succeed





- Experience delivering software development or analytics projects
- Strong background in ETL development and workflow orchestration
- Extensive experience with AWS services (Glue, Lambda, S3, RDS, IAM, Secrets Manager, SQS, EventBridge, CloudWatch) - AWS expertise is essential
- Experience with orchestration tools (e.g., Rundeck, AWS Step Functions)
- Familiarity with ETL tools (Pentaho, Apache Hop)
- Robust hands-on experience developing APIs
- Proficiency in SQL and relational databases (Oracle/Postgres)
- Practical experience with Docker
- Strong communication and teamwork skills
- Ability to manage priorities and deliver to project deadlines

What you'll get in return
Contract till June 2026, $100-$120/hour + Super, Parramatta/Hybrid
What you need to do now
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