Senior Data Engineer
Summary
Builds and maintains data pipelines, migrates data, and enhances analytics capabilities using SQL and Azure Data Factory for a federal government department.
Senior Data Engineer X 2
Data Division
Canberra ACT (Hybrid)
Database Development and Administration (Information and Communication Technology)
Contract/Temp
120 to 145 per hour
Data Engineering
SQL Query Language
Azure Data Factory
A Federal Government Department is looking to engage 2 Data Engineers to support the delivery of a range of solutions centred on data migration, data integration, data pipelines and enhancing the department’s analytics capabilities.
Contract Details:
Initial 12 month contract with a 12 month extension options out to August 2028 (2 years total)
Estimated start date August 2026 (pending onboarding and availability)
An NV1 Security clearance required (you must be an Australian Citizen to go through the vetting process).
Full time 40 hour work week. Hourly rate contract
Preferred Location: Canberra, ACT
Hybrid working options
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Assist with the selection and development of designing engineering methods, tools, and techniques for on-premise and hybrid data engineering solutions
Implement and assist in developing structure and data storing for usage in analytics and sharing with applications
Assist in designing, developing, and implementing structured and unstructured data pipelines ensuring data is fit for purpose
Understand the integration, consolidation, curation, migration, and transformation of data and aligns to relevant guidelines
Collaborate with business stakeholders to determine the required data sets and analysis tools
Required Skills:
Advanced SQL skills to extract, explore, and manipulate complex, large-scale datasets
Experience delivering Microsoft 365 solutions will be highly regarded
Experience with Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks or Power BI would be desirable
Practical competency in programming languages like Python for automation and data manipulation
Experience designing, building, and maintaining automated data pipelines and integration workflows
Familiarity with relational/non-relational databases and cloud or hybrid data environments in Azure
3+ years of hands-on experience in data engineering, data warehousing, or analytics roles
What is on offer
The chance to drive data integration, migration, and pipeline development across hybrid and cloud (Azure/M365) environments.
The opportunity to work on a long term project that is utilising some of the latest technology to deliver data migration, integration and analytics outcomes.
12 month initial contract with a 12 month extension option
Posted: 31-07-2026
Salary: 120 to 145 per hour