Senior Data Analyst

Create our future together at the City of Greater Geelong

At City of Greater Geelong, we are committed to working together for a thriving community. We do this by delivering over 130 services to our rapidly growing population and working hard to protect and improve what it is that makes Greater Geelong on Wadawurrung country such a great place to live, work and study.

We’re going through an exciting period of change that will help us serve our community better. From digital modernisation to the contemporary, sustainable office we’re building in Central Geelong, now more than ever is a great time to join our team at the City of Greater Geelong.

Our Community is made up of diverse people from all walks of life, and it’s important to us that our workforce represents and celebrates this strength.

We encourage great people from all backgrounds to join us. We encourage authenticity, because inclusion makes us stronger.

If you’re excited about working together to create a Clever and Creative Greater Geelong, and joining a workplace where all people can thrive, then hit apply – we’d love to meet you!

We particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with diverse culture and linguistic backgrounds and people with disability.

About the role

In this role you will assist in building and maintaining reports and dashboards, performing analytics and data quality activities across our data domains to aid in business performance monitoring and business decision making. The role requires a strong working knowledge of business trends, and is able to read and analyse data and trends work with business stakeholders to elicit and capture reporting and analytic requirements.

Key responsibilities include:

• Plan and coordinate the identification, elicitation of requirements, conduct analysis of those requirements for completion and alignment, document and manage requirements and coordinate the verification of the end deliverable.
• Interpret the business need and identify solution recommendations in relation to data management
• Use warehouse data and other key data systems to generate reports and analyse key themes and possible impacts to support business decision making and business performance monitoring.
• Create data pipelines to ingest new minor datasets into the Data Warehouse. Partners with stakeholders, process specialists, and users to elicit and document business requirements for reporting & analytics and metrics
• Design, develop and maintain reports, analytical tools, data analytics and reporting platforms including data sources, security, and metadata.
• Assess quality of data, profiling, remediating and cleansing data

About you

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Management or equivalent plus relevant post-graduate qualifications, or an equivalent combination of formal training.
• Strong Understanding / Knowledge and Experience of ETL frameworks and ETL tools and data languages such as SQL, Python and R.
• Ability to develop data models and Data Architecture.
• Demonstrated experience in data visualisation tools e.g. PowerBI, Tableau etc
• Demonstrated experience in data warehousing, large datasets with strong understanding of key concepts and methods.
• Demonstrated experience with database and integration toolsets, with best practice approaches. Ideally the City’s chosen toolset (e.g., Oracle Data Warehouse, Oracle Cloud Integration) or similar

The health and safety of our people is our highest priority. It is our current policy to ask for your COVID-19 vaccination status. You have the right not to disclose your vaccination status, and successful candidates who are not vaccinated or do not want to disclose will go through a simple risk assessment process.

If this sounds like the role for you, then click apply now!

A career with us

With flexible working options, our people have choice in how and where they work. Our employees connect with us from across the Greater Geelong region and beyond.

Central Geelong-based City employees are moving to our new Civic Precinct, Wurriki Nyal. Meaning ‘speak and talk together’ in local Wadawurrung language. Wurriki Nyal sets the benchmark for what a sustainable, inclusive and culturally safe workplace can be, including industry leading sustainability standards, a flexible and people-focused design, safe and inclusive spaces and public realm.

We’re committed to supporting better accessibility for our customers and our people. We encourage you to talk to us about any adjustments or additional support you may require during the recruitment process, as well as how this role can be flexible for you.

We offer:

• flexible work arrangements including RDO options in specified work areas
• salary sacrificing and novated lease options
• cultural and ceremonial leave
• study leave
• paid parental leave (16 weeks primary and six weeks secondary) and superannuation payments on all 52 weeks primary parental leave
• IVF, surrogate and miscarriage bereavement leave
• training and career development opportunities
• a healthy and safe environment
• our employee wellbeing program
• corporate membership rates for health insurance
• corporate membership rates at Swim Sport and Leisure facilities

Applications and Enquiries

Enquires:Elton Cross| ecross@geelongcity.vic.gov.au

If we can assist you with any reasonable adjustments in order to submit your application for this role, please contact the Talent Acquisition team via email at careers@geelongcity.vic.gov.au noting your preferred method of communication and contact details and a member of the team will be in touch.