El1 Lead Data Engineer

Softtest Pays Pty; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Softtest Pays Pty is seeking an EL1 Data Acquisition Engineer to join a senior project stream for the NDIA data warehouse platform in Melbourne. The role involves hands-on development, guiding developers, and reviewing data designs to support rapid subject-area expansion.

You will lead design reviews, refine the data delivery framework, and own the end-to-end implementation from analysis to release. Collaboration with data consumers and IT teams will be essential to success.

Qualifications

• Proven track record in data engineering, ETL and SQL development.
• Experience leading data delivery, design reviews and release processes.
• Strong collaboration with data consumers, testers and IT support teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership through design reviews and workshops.
• Refine data delivery framework and integrate new data sources.
• Own end-to-end data delivery from analysis to dictionary and release steps.
• Promote coding standards, documentation and best practices.
• Deliver knowledge transfer sessions and peer reviews on development and data modelling.
• Prioritize work items and manage a work queue.
• Analyze, size and document user requirements.
• Develop and maintain SQL analytic and ETL code.
• Update system documentation and collaborate with related teams.

Skills

Performance

Data

Steps

Project Delivery

Support

Database

ETL

Development

Collaboration

Analysis

Reviews

Workshops

Developers

Continuous Improvement

Integration

Documentation

Maintenance

Design

SQL

Training

Leadership

Job description

Job Description:

Australian Citizens residing in Australia with Baseline Clearance only respond.

Job details:

Role/s: EL1 Data Acquisition Engineer

The EL1 Data Engineer (Labour Hire) role will be a senior member of a project stream of the NDIA data warehouse platform. This includes updating data development documentation, hands‑on data platform development, providing technical guidance to developers and reviewing/approving data designs and data models.

Key duties and responsibilities:

• provide technical leadership to the project delivery team through design reviews, advising on implementation best practices, defining and refining release process and technical workshops.
• Review and refine the data delivery framework in order to enhance integration of new sources, performance of existing data delivery and rapid development of new subject areas.
• Own the technical implementation of new data from analysis to delivery (designing and delivering data dictionary, defining the release steps, defining best practices of data modelling and review steps).
• Facilitate continuous improvement measures in delivery principles, coding standards, documentation and provide training sessions to team.
• Provide knowledge transfer sessions and peer review on best practices on development, data modelling, release process etc.
• Prioritise work items and add them to a work queue.
• Understand, analyse and size user requirements.
• Development and maintenance of SQL analytical and ETL code.
• Development and maintenance of system documentation.
• Collaboration with data consumers, database development, testers and IT support teams.

(NOTE: the key responsibilities of the role are based on current priorities and may change over time)

Required Skills:

• Performance
• Data
• Steps
• Project Delivery
• Support
• Database
• ETL
• Development
• Collaboration
• Analysis
• Reviews
• Workshops
• Developers
• Continuous Improvement
• Integration
• Documentation
• Maintenance
• Design
• SQL
• Training
• Leadership