Principal Data Engineer
Posted
Summary
A leadership role in the NSW Department of Customer Service: you lead a team of Data Quality Analysts and Technical Support specialists while providing hands-on technical direction for analytics platforms, data ingestion frameworks, and ETL/ELT data engineering solutions that meet government architectural standards.
Lead and develop a high-performing team of Data Quality Analysts and Technical Support specialists, fostering a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and technical excellence.
Key responsibilities
- Provide hands‑on technical leadership for analytics platforms, data processing products, and data ingestion frameworks, ensuring compliance with data and architectural standards and delivery of business requirements.
- Design and deliver data engineering and analytics solutions in line with technical specifications, engineering best practices, and coding standards.
- Design, build, and maintain ETL/ELT solutions to enable the efficient extraction, transformation, and loading of data for analytics and reporting.
- Lead development activities across Data Engineering initiatives, providing technical direction, design guidance, workload planning, and peer review of deliverables.
What you need
- Hold appropriate working rights for the type of employment offered - Fixed Term roles require valid work rights for the full duration of the role.
- Salary Grade 11/12, with the base salary for this role starting.
- Experience operating as a principal engineer, lead engineer or senior technical leader within complex enterprise environments.