Principal Data Engineer – Tech Lead, Analytics & ETL

Department of Customer Service

Sydney

On-site

AUD 130,000 - 180,000

Full time

14 days+

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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.