Associate Data Engineer

NSW Public Service Commission; Sydney; On-site; AUD 121,000 - 136,000; Full time

Job summary

Transport for NSW is seeking a Data Architect to design, build, and maintain robust data pipelines and secure data infrastructure across data lakes and warehouses. You will ensure data quality, governance, and compliance while aligning with architectural standards and platform requirements.

You will have strong experience with ETL/ELT, data platforms, and orchestration tools, enabling scalable, high-performance data environments and reliable data ingestion from multiple sources.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and maintaining data pipelines.
• Strong understanding of data architecture and storage solutions.
• Focus on data quality, governance and security.
• Experience with ETL/ELT processes and cloud platforms.
• Ability to design scalable, efficient data environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain data pipelines across sources.
• Implement scalable, secure data infrastructure including data lakes/warehouses.
• Ensure data quality, reliability and performance per standards.
• Apply validation, monitoring and compliance best practices.
• Work with modern data platforms and orchestration tools.

Skills

ETL pipelines

Data architecture

Data governance

Cloud technologies

Data quality

Orchestration tools

Tools

Data platforms

Job description

Organisation/Entity: Transport For NSW

Job category: Projects

Job location: Macquarie Park, NSW, AU, 2113

Job reference number: 108684

Employment type: Permanent Full-Time

Salary range: $121175.0-$135716.0

You crave a career that pushes you, where you'll meet challenges head on and you're guaranteed to grow.

You bring structure, mitigation and education to our organisation. Our records and datasets are vast and varied. This is your opportunity to safeguard critical infrastructure, order and protect sensitive data, and defend against emerging cyber threats. You'll be part of an expert team who protect against thousands of threats every day.

In this role, you'll:

• you will be involved in designing, building and maintaining data pipelines, ensuring reliable ingestion of data from multiple sources and alignment with platform standards and architecture.
• you will support the implementation of scalable and secure data infrastructure, including data lakes and warehouses, optimising storage, compute and processing frameworks.
• you will be responsible for ensuring data quality, reliability and performance through validation, monitoring, optimisation and adherence to data standards, security and compliance requirements.
• you have strong experience in building and optimising data pipelines (ETL/ELT) and working with modern data platforms, cloud technologies and orchestration tools.
• you have a solid understanding of data architecture, storage solutions and performance optimisation, with the ability to design scalable and efficient data environments.
• you are detail-oriented with a strong focus on data quality, governance and security, with experience implementing validation, monitoring and compliance best practices.

Who we are

Transport for NSW provides a safe, integrated, and efficient transport system. We connect people, communities and industry every day.

Our workforce is as diverse as the community we serve. If you’d like further information on our inclusion and diversity initiatives, visit Transport careers .

For more information about this role, please contact [e-mail].

Aboriginal people and people living with disability are supported throughout the recruitment process and at work, and we encourage you to apply. Visit Supporting Aboriginal People or Supporting People with Disability for more information or speak to your talent team member to arrange any adjustments to how you interact with us.

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