Data Engineer: Build Our Enterprise Analytics Platform

Darebin City Council; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Darebin City Council is seeking a Data Engineer to design, develop and maintain the organisation's first enterprise analytics platform. You will build data pipelines, ETL processes, and reporting components using the Microsoft stack and modern data tooling.

As the leading hire for this initiative, you will define the data architecture, governance, and workflows, work with stakeholders across teams, and drive the data culture that underpins council decision-making.

Qualifications

• SQL and database querying for data extraction and transformation.
• Understanding of data warehousing and ETL concepts and architecture.
• Knowledge of data governance, data quality management and information security.
• Ability to conduct data analysis and communicate insights clearly to non-technical audiences.
• Familiarity with Council enterprise systems and organisational data sources.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain batch or real-time data pipelines.
• Develop ETL (extract, transform, load) processes to help extract and manipulate data from multiple sources
• Automate data workflows such as data ingestion, aggregation, and ETL processing.
• Develop and maintain data models and data transformations that support accurate, performant and well-governed reporting solutions.
• Prepare raw data into a consumable datasets for both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Provide guidance and strategic direction on software stack supporting Data warehousing, ETL processes and workflow pipelines

Skills

SQL and querying

Data warehousing

ETL concepts

Data governance

Stakeholder communication

Job description

Darebin City Council is seeking a Data Engineer to design, develop and maintain the organisation's first enterprise analytics platform. You will build data pipelines, ETL processes, and reporting components using the Microsoft stack and modern data tooling.

As the leading hire for this initiative, you will define the data architecture, governance, and workflows, work with stakeholders across teams, and drive the data culture that underpins council decision-making.