Senior Data Platform Engineer & Technical Lead

Softtest Pays Pty; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

NDIA in Brisbane is seeking an EL1 Data Acquisition Engineer to lead data platform development within the NDIA data warehouse project. You will guide the delivery team, refine the data framework, and own end-to-end data delivery from analysis to deployment.

The role involves designing data dictionaries, defining release steps, and mentoring on best practices in data modelling and documentation, with a focus on continuous improvement and collaboration across teams.

Qualifications

• Senior data engineer role for an NDIA data warehouse project.
• Hands-on data platform development and SQL/ETL emphasis.
• Reviewing data designs and enabling data modeling best practices.

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

Performance

Data

Steps

Project Delivery

Support

Database

ETL

Development

Collaboration

Analysis

Reviews

Workshops

Developers

Continuous Improvement

Integration

Documentation

Maintenance

Design

SQL

Training

Leadership

Job description

NDIA in Brisbane is seeking an EL1 Data Acquisition Engineer to lead data platform development within the NDIA data warehouse project. You will guide the delivery team, refine the data framework, and own end-to-end data delivery from analysis to deployment.

The role involves designing data dictionaries, defining release steps, and mentoring on best practices in data modelling and documentation, with a focus on continuous improvement and collaboration across teams.