One of our federal govt clients is seeking to engage

Lead Data Engineer

for

Canberra

location

Extension term details -24

months

Location of work -

ACT

Working arrangements -Hybrid

One of our federal govt clients is seeking to engage

Lead Data Engineer

for

Canberra

location

Initial contract duration-

12 months

Extension term details -24

months

Experience level EL1

equivalent

Location of work -

ACT

Working arrangements -Hybrid

Job details Our client is looking for a Data Engineer who can work across its data and analytics platforms. We are seeking candidates with solid experience in developing Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) and Extract, Load, Transform (ELT) processes, and /or the development of data products and complex data visualisations.

The role will be responsible for design, development and testing activities across several data movement, data transformation, and data visualisation processes . The data movement and transformation processes focus on the preparation of data for use in decision making processes across the department, utilising modern cloud technology (Azure & Databricks) to enable operational analytics use cases.

Key duties and responsibilities Responsibilities

include, but not limited to:

Be responsive, flexible, and work collaboratively as part of an agile team.

Strong relationship building, and negotiation skills.

Strong written and oral communication skills.

Creating and maintaining automated ingest and transformation patterns and frameworks.

Designing, building and maintaining data ingest and transformation solutions to meet current and emerging needs.





Assisting project teams achieve objectives that align with departmental, divisional, and program priorities.

Supporting data engineers in delivery teams, through regular quality reviews and constructive feedback on utilising data assets to produce quality data products.

The successful candidate will require experience with the following techniques and technologies:

Data Integration - Data Factory, SQL Server Integration Services and/or Databricks

Data Store - SQL Server and/or Data Lake Storage

Analytics - Azure Databricks, Azure Machine Learning, ArcGIS Enterprise

Development tools – DevOps, Visual Studio

Data technology solutions – sourcing (Oracle, Ingres, Azure, SQL Server), automated ingestion

Data Preparation

Transformation of data into formats tailored for advanced analytics and AI use cases – Parquet and/or Delta

Data Visualisation

Analyse and interpret complex data sets, and to identify trends and patterns.

Design principles to create appropriate visualisations for target audience.

Visualisation tools - Power BI.

Weighting

1.Demonstrated experience developing ETL/ELT processes for complex and/or large data movement, transformation and/or visualisations, particularly in a cloud environment.

Weighting:50%

2. Experience preparing data optimised for query performance in cloud computed engines. E.g.

Distributed computing engines (Spark)

Graph Databases

Azure SQL

Weighting:25%

3.Experience working with Engineering, Storage and Analytics services in cloud infrastructure.

Weighting:25%

Desirable criteria

1.Experience working with Azure Data Factory and Databricks.

2.Experience/Knowledge of working with Data Lake and Lakehouses.

📌 Lead Data Engineer-Canberra
🏢 IT Alliance
📍 Canberra