Lead Data Engineer

Our federal client is looking for a Data Engineer to join its Enterprise Analytics and Technology Services (EATS) section to work across its data and analytics platforms. We are seeking candidates with strong 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 within DAFF. 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.

To be successful in the role, you must have a strong work ethic including taking ownership, providing leadership, having a high level of productivity, and working with a multi-disciplinary team in an Agile development environment. You must have suitable qualifications or training in data engineering techniques and at least 5 years’ experience working as a data engineer.

Requirements

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:

• Azure hosted services including:

• 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.