Lead Data Engineer

Strategic Partners Australia — Australia · Posted ~3 hours ago

Lead Contract Hybrid

Skills

data engineering ETL ELT data product development data visualization data transformation data movement Azure Databricks data platform development testing technical leadership

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Summary ✨ AI‑Generated

A lead data engineer is sought for a long-term public-sector engagement to design, develop, and test data movement, transformation, and visualization solutions. The role works across modern cloud analytics platforms, using Azure and Databricks to enable operational analytics, while providing technical leadership and ownership across data engineering activities.

Highlights

Lead data engineering work on modern cloud analytics platforms under a long-term government engagement. The role offers leadership responsibility, ownership of data movement and transformation processes, and hands-on work with Azure and Databricks to support operational analytics.

Description

Greetings from Strategic Partners Australia! I am looking for "Lead Data Engineer - EL1 Level" candidates for our Federal Government Client. Contract Duration: 12 months + 24 months Work Location - Canberra(Hybrid) Security Clearance: Baseline Mandatory Skills & Experience Data Engineer to join its Enterprise Analytics and Technology Services (EATS) section to work across its data and analytics platforms. We are seeking candidates with strong experience in developing Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) and Extract, Load, Transform (ELT) processes, and /or the development of data products and complex data visualisations.The role will be responsible for design, development and testing activities across several data movement, data transformation, and data visualisation processes within DAFF, utilising modern cloud technology (Azure & Databricks) to enable operational analytics use cases.Candidate must have a strong work ethic including taking ownership, providing leadership, having a high level of productivity, and working with a multi-disciplinary team in an Agile development environment.Candidate must have suitable qualifications or training in data engineering techniques and at least 5 years' experience working as a data engineer. I would be happy to discuss and share more details about the role if you are interested, kindly share your resume to cathrin.patrick@strategicpartners.net.au