Senior Data Engineer: Data Lake & Cloud Solutions (Hybrid)

Talent Corp; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 96,000 - 152,000; Full time

Job summary

Talent Corp is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to support multiple data warehouse platforms in a Federal Government environment. You will implement ingestion solutions, review data models, and guide development teams across project delivery and BAU support.

Responsibilities include designing data solutions, building data dictionaries, managing data ingestion, optimizing SQL, and ensuring documentation and standards are maintained. Hybrid work with Richmond/Geelong locations is available.

Qualifications

• Three+ years in data engineering delivering both project and BAU outcomes.
• Experience with data lakes, MySQL, Amazon S3 and iPaaS solutions.
• Two+ years on cloud platforms, ideally AWS and Azure.
• Strong SQL development, optimisation and performance tuning.
• Able to translate requirements to technical designs and communicate clearly.
• Strong stakeholder engagement across multiple business areas.
• Comfortable in fast-paced environments with competing priorities.
• Experience in Agile and Waterfall delivery environments.
• Australian Government experience would be highly regarded.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to design and delivery of new data solutions from analysis to implementation.
• Develop data dictionaries, release processes and data modelling standards.
• Build and maintain data ingestion solutions across data lake and cloud environments.
• Work with Amazon S3, MySQL, OLTP/OLAP and iPaaS platforms.
• Develop and maintain Data Lake Transformation Metadata.
• Optimize SQL code to improve performance.
• Estimate user requirements and manage work through Jira.
• Maintain technical documentation and coding standards.

Skills

Data engineering

SQL development

Cloud platforms

AWS

Azure

Data lakes

MySQL

iPaaS

Agile delivery

Waterfall delivery

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

Amazon S3

MySQL

iPaaS

Job description

Talent Corp is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to support multiple data warehouse platforms in a Federal Government environment. You will implement ingestion solutions, review data models, and guide development teams across project delivery and BAU support.

Responsibilities include designing data solutions, building data dictionaries, managing data ingestion, optimizing SQL, and ensuring documentation and standards are maintained. Hybrid work with Richmond/Geelong locations is available.