Senior Data Migration Engineer

Accenture Australia; Canberra; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Australia is seeking a senior data engineering lead to drive data conversions and modernisation initiatives across multiple teams in Canberra. You will collaborate with data, security and cloud specialists to design scalable solutions and deliver measurable business outcomes.

The role emphasizes automation (PowerShell), SQL data architecture, SSIS/ETL, Cloud migration to GCP, migration runbooks, and governance reporting with Power BI.

Responsibilities

• Automate Data Discovery: Advanced PowerShell skills for enterprise-scale discovery, metadata and permission capture, Active Directory integration, scheduling, logging, auditing and recovery.
• Data architecture and SQL: Strong SQL Server capability, including metadata repository design, conceptual-to-physical data modelling, inventory and reporting schemas, stored procedures, views, optimisation, reconciliation and error handling.
• ETL engineering: Proven SSIS/ETL experience ingesting database and file-based sources, with robust transformation, cleansing, validation, incremental loading, historical tracking, exception management and monitoring.
• Cloud migration delivery: End-to-end migration of structured and unstructured data from legacy platforms to GCP, including Cloud Storage, while preserving metadata and permissions and completing reconciliation and post-migration verification.
• Migration strategy and cutover: Ability to design migration approaches, plan waves, manage dependencies and risks, and produce executable runbooks, cutover plans and rollback procedures.
• Reporting and governance: Power BI, DAX and semantic modelling skills to deliver migration-readiness, utilisation, operational, executive, governance and compliance reporting.
• Senior engineering leadership: Ability to establish engineering standards, troubleshoot complex migration issues, communicate technical risks clearly and coordinate delivery across business, infrastructure, security and application teams.

Job description

THE WORK:

Discover new possibilities and make a meaningful impact. You will collaborate and manage the team to perform effectively, engage with multiple teams, and contribute to key decisions. You will provide solutions to challenges for your immediate team and across multiple teams, all while embracing the advanced expertise in Data Conversions. Join us in this exciting journey and help shape the future with your valuable contributions.

• Automate Data Discovery: Advanced PowerShell skills for enterprise-scale discovery, metadata and permission capture, Active Directory integration, scheduling, logging, auditing and recovery.
• Data architecture and SQL: Strong SQL Server capability, including metadata repository design, conceptual-to-physical data modelling, inventory and reporting schemas, stored procedures, views, optimisation, reconciliation and error handling.
• ETL engineering: Proven SSIS/ETL experience ingesting database and file-based sources, with robust transformation, cleansing, validation, incremental loading, historical tracking, exception management and monitoring.
• Cloud migration delivery: End-to-end migration of structured and unstructured data from legacy platforms to GCP, including Cloud Storage, while preserving metadata and permissions and completing reconciliation and post-migration verification.
• Migration strategy and cutover: Ability to design migration approaches, plan waves, manage dependencies and risks, and produce executable runbooks, cutover plans and rollback procedures.
• Reporting and governance: Power BI, DAX and semantic modelling skills to deliver migration-readiness, utilisation, operational, executive, governance and compliance reporting.
• Senior engineering leadership: Ability to establish engineering standards, troubleshoot complex migration issues, communicate technical risks clearly and coordinate delivery across business, infrastructure, security and application teams.

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Benefits of working at Accenture:

• 18 weeks paid parental leave
• Long & short-term career break opportunities
• Structured career development program
• Local and international career opportunities.
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• Flexible Work Arrangements - centered around Accenture's Truly Human ethos and our commitment to supporting the health and wellbeing of our people.
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