Data Engineer

Salary: $131,884 per year

About the Position

The Armidale Catholic Schools system has over 6000 students and employs over 1000 staff members across the New England and Northwest regions of New South Wales. Armidale Catholic Schools comprises 24 schools; nineteen primary, one K-10, three secondary and one K-12 school. Our schools are set among unique landscapes of hills, slopes, plains and rivers. Our distinctive regional, rural and remote communities encompass a large area, that is culturally diverse with a significant student population of over 15% identifying as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander.

By joining us, you will be joining a high-performing team, with a passion for delivering excellence to our students and colleagues. Our staff benefit from a 35 hour working week, additional paid time off during Christmas and the New Year, and a generous personal professional development budget annually.

Armidale Catholic Schools has data informed decisions culture leveraging education & wellbeing data to drive practical insights. The Data Engineer is a key foundation of this value, responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining the infrastructure, processes & systems required for data storage, processing, and analysis. The Data Engineer builds and manages the data pipelines that enable efficient and reliable data integration, transformation, and delivery for use in Business Intelligence and other enterprise workloads.

Essential Criteria

• 4 + years developing and administering data services and pipelines

• Excellent knowledge of and experience concerning the cyber security implications of data services

• Highly defined analytical, and problem solving skills, and demonstrated experience with complex incidents

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including demonstrated ability to:

  • Build strong and effective relationships with stakeholders and colleagues

  • Prepare documentation and plans, develop procedures, etc

  • Communicate effectively with both technical and non technical stakeholders

• Excellent organisational skills including attention to detail, highly effective time management and ability to prioritise between multiple projects

• The ability to work collaboratively as a highly effective team-member as well as work autonomously and take ownership of issues and projects

• If remote, willingness to travel for key meetings & events.

Desirable Criteria

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data science, software engineering, information systems, or similar

• Experience with Snowflake, Dell Boomi, Microsoft Power BI

• Experience with Business Intelligence development and administration

• Experience working in dynamic and geographically distributed teams

• Experience in an educational environment

Salary & Benefits

• $131,884 gross per annum*

• Additional paid time off between Christmas and New Year

• Financial support for further study

• Generous professional development budget

• Work from home up to 2 days per week (for in person)

* Salary rate effective from 12 October 2026.

Location

• Catholic Schools Office, Armidale or

• ACS Tamworth Hub, Tamworth or

• Remote (Northern NSW)

For more information visit Armidale Catholic Schools website https://arm.catholic.edu.au/job-vacancies/