Senior Data Engineer

  • Australia
  • Melbourne
  • Contract
  • AU$113 - AU$130 per hour + inc super

Our client is a federal government organisation with offices throughout Australia. Due to growth, they are seeking APS6 AWS Data Engineer to join their team in Richmond or Geelong.

  • 12-month contract
  • Hybrid with 3 days per week onsite

Key duties and responsibilities

  • Experience in AWS Cloud, AWS S3, AWS Glue or similar tools within the cloud environment
  • Provide level 2/3 technical support for AWS, Control-M, Teradata (legacy EDW), Snowflake, and ETL tool-based data integration solutions.
  • DevOps – Ability to understand DevOps process and can use DevOps tools in accordance with the process
  • Programming – High level of competency in Programming, including knowledge of supplementary programming languages such as Python
  • Experience in Control M or similar scheduling applications.
  • Worked on File transfer tools e.g. GoAnyWhere or any other similar tools
  • Version control – Ability to demonstrate knowledge of version controls and its appropriate uses
  • Facilitate continuous improvement measures in delivery principles, coding standards, documentation and provide training sessions to team.
  • Prioritise work items and add them to a work queue.
  • Understand, analyse and size user requirements.
  • Development and maintenance of SQL analytical and ETL code.
  • Development and maintenance of system documentation.
  • Work within a state of the art, greenfield dev ops environment.
  • Collaboration with data consumers, database development, testers and IT support teams.

To apply you will need the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

  • Proficiency in AWS services related to data engineering: AWS Glue, S3, Lambda, EC2, RDS
  • Data pipeline design and development using ETL/ELT frameworks
  • Proficiency with Snowflake as a Cloud EDW/Teradata as On-Prem EDW
  • Proficiency in programming languages: Python (preferred)
  • Control-m Orchestration / Monitoring or similar applications.
  • Strong experience in Operational Support processes and working in a BAU environment

Desirable criteria

  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools: CloudFormation or Terraform
  • Exposure to at least one ETL tool like DBT, Talend, Informatica etc
  • Strong SQL Proficiency.
  • SAS (Base, EG, SAS Viya)

Federal government role – proof of Australian citizenship required

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Submit your resume or contact Shelley at shelley.harrison@talentinternational.com or call on 0418 572 482 for further information. Shortlisted will be contacted.

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