Founded in 2002, ELMO Software is the trusted provider of HR technology solutions to 2,000+ mid-sized organisations and more than one million end users across Australia and New Zealand.With a comprehensive suite of ISO-certified solutions that span the full employee lifecycle, ELMO Software is designed to scale as organisations grow. Flexible and configurable, ELMO’s one-stop HRIS fits to your specific needs and workflows.Through powerful technology, automation, data and analytics, ELMO Software empowers HR professionals to play an integral role in company decision making.

Life & Culture...

At ELMO you will be joining an epic team with the opportunity to make a big impact. We foster an authentic, collaborative, fun working environment and being an ELMOnian means you're part of an amazing team that will push you to grow, support you with challenges and allow you to shine. Some of our benefits include:

- Paid Parental leave - 12 weeks primary, 6 weeks secondary
- Birthday leave, YOU day each year, as well as connecting people leave (up to 2weeks working from anywhere)
- Inhouse Learning and Development initiatives
- ELMO Social and Diversity clubs
- Mental Health/EAP programs
- Flare Benefits (great discounts, novated leasing, salary sacrifice)

Our values:

- Reimagine What's Possible- We believe innovation is human at its core. By staying open, fearless, and adaptive, we continuously push boundaries - while keeping people at the heart of everything we do.
- Obsess over Customers– Everything we do is designed to positively impact our customers.
- Help Others Thrive- Be they colleagues, communities or customers, we champion ways to help others thrive.




- Be Fearlessly Optimistic- We bring unwavering positivity to any challenge, as we know it will drive meaningful change.

Please note: Our internal Talent Acquisition team has got this covered, we’re not open to using an agency for this role.

The Opportunity

ELMO’s HR and payroll platform runs on AWS RDS across MySQL, SQL Server and PostgreSQL, supported by a Snowflake data warehouse. We’re looking for a hands‑on database expert who has grown into the modern data stack who can tune a slow query, resolve a production issue within SLA and build the pipelines that power our analytics and AI products.

Database performance, support and monitoring are the number‑one priority in this role. You’ll own the health, stability and security of our production databases first, then apply that expertise across our wider data platform. You’ll also use AI agents and MCP tooling to investigate issues, analyse root causes and work faster and smarter.

This is an opportunity to combine strong DBA fundamentals with data engineering, cloud infrastructure and responsible AI in a role with direct impact on ELMO’s customers and products.

What you’ll be doing:

Database performance, support and monitoring

- Administer and support MySQL and SQL Server, with PostgreSQL, across AWS RDS environments from development through to production.
- Own the database ticket queue,



triaging and resolving issues within agreed service‑level agreements.
- Monitor database health, performance, capacity and availability, maintaining dashboards and alerts that support reliable production operations.
- Diagnose and resolve slow queries, locking and contention, indexing and execution‑plan issues, configuration problems and capacity constraints.
- Plan and perform MySQL and SQL Server upgrades, including related tools and processes.
- Maintain solid security controls, including access management, data masking and row‑level security, to protect sensitive HR and employee data.
- Use AI agents and MCP servers to accelerate investigation, root‑cause analysis, query analysis and proactive monitoring.

Data engineering and platform delivery

- Build and maintain production‑scale Snowflake pipelines and dbt models.
- Automate data loading and transformation using Python and SQL, orchestrated through Airflow or AWS Step Functions.
- Design and maintain reliable, observable data pipelines that support analytics, AI and downstream data products.
- Review AI‑generated SQL, pipeline code and dbt models for correctness, performance, security and data integrity before merge.
- Contribute to data quality, schema evolution, contract testing and pipeline reliability practices.
- Support streaming and change‑data‑capture patterns, including Kafka, where required.
- Identify and deliver opportunities to optimise Snowflake and AWS costs.
- Own ISO 27001 evidence for the databases and pipelines within your area of responsibility.

What we’re looking for

Essential experience

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📌 Data Engineer (Sydney)
🏢 ELMO Software
📍 Sydney