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Data Engineer

Summary

Design and build cloud-based data pipelines and warehouses using Azure services, Python, and SQL to ingest, transform, and visualize government data.

Your new company A prominent Victorian State Government Organisation

Your new role

You will be working closely with the Manager Data Strategy, Management and Transformation, you will actively contribute to a positive organisational culture and achieve the highest standards of performance and integrity.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and role model high standards of performance, accountability, collaboration, ethics, and integrity;
  • manage the allocated resources, budgets, contribute to business and project planning and reporting;
  • Support team to identify enterprise needs;
  • design and build solutions for spatial and non-spatial data acquisition and ingestion, warehousing, architecture, and engineering based on requirements.
  • Support team to plan and execute testing in accordance with corporate practices and standards.
  • Create and maintain technical documentation, including but not limited to define and design, service level agreements, interface agreements, quick reference guides, data registries.

Requirements

  • Have minimum 5 years’ experience in cloud data technologies including Microsoft Azure Data Services, Azure Data Lake, Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, SQL and Power BI.
  • Hands‑on experience in Python and Rest APIs.
  • Experience delivering data engineering solutions and implementations.
  • Familiarity with deployment and data lifecycle management practices.
  • Experience designing and optimising workloads within capacity constraints to ensure reliable, performant pipelines
  • Knowledge of spatial data management (GIS) and ETL platforms preferably ArcGIS is preferrable
  • Experience migrating and modernising data solutions from on‑premises or legacy systems into Microsoft Cloud.

What you'll get in return

  • Working in an organisation where they develop and grow careers.
  • A contractual opportunity offering excellent daily rate
  • Flexible working arrangements, including 3 day per week in the office.

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