Principal Data Engineer

Department of Customer Service; Sydney; On-site; AUD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Department of Customer Service in Sydney is seeking a senior leader to lead and develop a high-performing team of Data Quality Analysts and Technical Support specialists, fostering collaboration, continuous improvement, and technical excellence.

You will provide hands-on technical leadership for analytics platforms, data processing products, and data ingestion frameworks, ensure compliance with data and architectural standards, and deliver on business requirements through robust ETL/ELT

Qualifications

• Hold appropriate working rights for the type of employment offered.
• Experience as a principal engineer, lead engineer or senior technical leader within complex enterprise environments.
• Salary grade 11/12, with the base salary for this role starting.

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.

Skills

Technical leadership

Data engineering

ETL/ELT design

Analytics platforms

Job description

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.