Senior Data Engineer: Data Warehouse Lead & ETL Expert

Softtest pays pty ltd; Sydney; On-site; AUD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Softtest pays pty ltd is seeking an EL1 Data Acquisition Engineer to join a senior project stream in the NDIA data warehouse platform. You will lead design reviews, refine data delivery, and own end-to-end data implementation from analysis to delivery.

The role emphasizes technical leadership, data modelling, documentation, and knowledge transfer, with potential Labour Hire arrangements and ongoing collaboration with IT teams.

Qualifications

• Senior EL1 level data role with hands-on development.
• Experience in data warehouse environments and project leadership.
• Strong SQL, ETL and data modelling skills.

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.

Skills

SQL

Data warehousing

ETL

Data modelling

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / IT

Job description

Softtest pays pty ltd is seeking an EL1 Data Acquisition Engineer to join a senior project stream in the NDIA data warehouse platform. You will lead design reviews, refine data delivery, and own end-to-end data implementation from analysis to delivery.

The role emphasizes technical leadership, data modelling, documentation, and knowledge transfer, with potential Labour Hire arrangements and ongoing collaboration with IT teams.