Senior Data Engineer

  • Australia
  • New South Wales
  • Contract
  • AU$850 - AU$900 per day

Talent International is currently recruiting for a Senior Data Engineer to work for one of our Federal Government clients one of its multiple office locations across NSW. The position is a 12-month contract role with the possibility of extension. The role pays $850 to $900 per day + Super.

7.5 hours per day and 37.5 hours per week

Must be able to obtain Negative Vetting Level 1

Operating at the APS6 level, you will support and maintain enterprise data assets across cloud and Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) environments. The role has a strong focus on BAU operational support, including daily data delivery, month-end processing and responding to data-related requests.

You will also help continuously improve data pipelines, engineering standards and delivery processes while collaborating with business and technical teams to ensure reliable, accurate and high-quality data services.

Key responsibilities

  • Develop, maintain and optimise enterprise data pipelines, ETL processes and analytical code.
  • Support daily data delivery, month-end processing and operational data requests.
  • Develop and maintain SQL analytical and ETL code for enterprise reporting and analytics.
  • Optimise and tune SQL code to improve performance and efficiency.
  • Lead technical implementation activities from requirements analysis through to deployment and operational support.
  • Analyse business requirements and translate them into technical solutions and data assets.
  • Define and maintain data modelling, peer review, development and release standards.
  • Review code, data models and technical solution designs.
  • Produce and maintain technical documentation, data dictionaries and implementation artefacts.
  • Collaborate with business stakeholders, developers, testers and support teams.
  • Support backlog prioritisation, work queue management and delivery planning.
  • Facilitate knowledge transfer and contribute to team capability uplift.
  • Drive continuous improvement across engineering standards, processes and delivery frameworks.

Essential requirements

To be considered for this opportunity, you must demonstrate:

  • Experience developing and supporting enterprise data warehouse and data integration solutions.
  • Strong SQL development, optimisation, performance-tuning and code-review expertise.
  • Hands-on competency in at least two of the following technologies:
    • Microsoft SQL Server
    • Teradata
    • Snowflake
    • Amazon Redshift
    • Databricks
  • Strong programming capability using SQL and languages such as Python, SAS, R or Java.
  • Ability to interpret and apply data models, technical specifications and solution designs.
  • Experience working in DevOps environments, including version control and software delivery practices.
  • Ability to obtain an NV1 security clearance.

Desirable experience

  • AWS data technologies such as S3, Glue or comparable cloud-based platforms.
  • SAS, Microsoft Excel and enterprise reporting or analytics platforms.
  • Metadata-driven or model-driven development frameworks.
  • Agile delivery environments.
  • Relevant tertiary qualifications in Computer Science, Information Technology, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science or a related discipline.

If you are interested in this role, please APPLY NOW by submitting your resume in MS Word Format. For further information, you may contact Uvez Ahmed on 0480 806 154 / uvez.ahmed@talentinternational.com for a confidential discussion.

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