Senior Data Engineer - Azure Pipelines & Data Quality

Yarra Trams; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free travel pass for Victoria’s Public

Competitive salary

Health & wellbeing programs

Parental leave

Job summary

Yarra Trams is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join the Data and Integration team in Melbourne. The role is a 2‑year fixed term reporting to the Team Manager, Data and Integration, working across business and technical teams to build scalable pipelines and improve data quality.

You will work with Azure data services to ensure data movement, transformation and availability that supports SLAs and organisational objectives, contributing to Melbourne’s iconic tram network.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years’ experience in a data engineering role.
• Strong SQL capability with relational databases.
• Experience with Azure Data Factory and enterprise-scale data pipelines.
• Experience with Azure Data Lake, data marts and Erwin modelling tools.
• Proven experience building and optimising cloud data architectures in Azure.
• ELT and ETL for large datasets (terabyte scale).
• Strong data quality, data cleaning and enrichment processes.
• Analytical skills and ability to work with unstructured datasets.
• Strong communication with stakeholders; BI support and data management strategies.

Responsibilities

• Building and maintaining scalable data pipelines within Azure Data Factory.
• Transforming, ingesting, and deploying large, complex datasets.
• Improving internal data processes including automation and optimisation.
• Supporting and maintaining data analytics tools and reporting capabilities.
• Working with stakeholders to resolve data-related issues and support platform needs.
• Building and maintaining data transformations, data structures, and metadata processes.
• Ensuring data security classifications and controls are adhered to.
• Delivering work to agreed timelines, budgets and scope.
• Conducting detailed analysis and configuration of Azure data solutions.
• Supporting database maintenance, security access, audit reporting and application performance monitoring.
• Participating in incident and problem management as required.

Skills

SQL expertise

Azure Data Factory

Azure Data Lake

Erwin modelling

Azure cloud architecture

ELT/ETL

Data quality

Analytical skills

BI support

Stakeholder comms

Tools

Azure Data Factory

Erwin

Job description

Yarra Trams is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join the Data and Integration team in Melbourne. The role is a 2‑year fixed term reporting to the Team Manager, Data and Integration, working across business and technical teams to build scalable pipelines and improve data quality.

You will work with Azure data services to ensure data movement, transformation and availability that supports SLAs and organisational objectives, contributing to Melbourne’s iconic tram network.