Senior Data Engineer: Enterprise Data & AI Leader

Government Recruitment Service; Ipswich City; On-site; AUD 83,000 - 101,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Disability Confident

Job summary

Government Recruitment Service in Ipswich is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to lead the development and governance of our enterprise data architecture, aligning technology with strategy and secure-by-design principles. Your work will support long-term capability, operational resilience and value for money, across Microsoft Fabric, OneLake and Azure services.

This role involves collaborating with data scientists, analysts and suppliers to translate requirements into robust engineering solutions,

Qualifications

• Experience designing and maintaining complex data ingestion pipelines.
• Ability to implement validation, lineage, metadata, governance and security controls.
• Proficiency with Azure AI, analytics tools and data products for reporting.
• Familiarity with DataOps, CI/CD and DevSecOps practices.

Responsibilities

• design, develop and maintain complex data ingestion, transformation and integration pipelines using Microsoft Fabric, OneLake and organisational data sources
• develop reusable engineering components, trusted datasets and data products to support analytics, reporting, Azure AI and machine-learning workloads
• implement validation, reconciliation and quality controls, ensuring that data solutions meet agreed lineage, metadata, governance and security standards
• implement CI/CD, automated testing and DataOps practices, optimising pipelines for performance, scalability, resilience and cost
• monitor and troubleshoot data pipelines, lead root-cause analysis and work with DevSecOps, AIOps and Application Support to improve operational reliability
• work with data scientists, analysts, delivery teams and suppliers to translate requirements into robust solutions, documented and recoverable
• provide technical leadership and mentoring to other engineers, contributing to engineering standards and continuous improvement

Skills

Data pipelines

Data governance

Azure AI

Machine learning

CI/CD

Data analytics

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

OneLake

Dynamics 365

Dataverse

Azure services

Job description

Government Recruitment Service in Ipswich is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to lead the development and governance of our enterprise data architecture, aligning technology with strategy and secure-by-design principles. Your work will support long-term capability, operational resilience and value for money, across Microsoft Fabric, OneLake and Azure services.

This role involves collaborating with data scientists, analysts and suppliers to translate requirements into robust engineering solutions,