Senior Data Engineer

About the role
In this role, you will make a significant impact on the operational efficiency of our Digital Information and Technology teams by facilitating the creation of insightful reporting and interactive dashboards, informing key organisational decisions.

Work type: Permanent, full-time
Classification: Band 8 ($115,035 - $127,911)

Key responsibilities include:

• Facilitate innovation and best practice approach in the department and push the boundaries of what is possible in delivering services for customer and community satisfaction.
• Develop and maintain strategic networks with relevant key stakeholders within the field to fulfil the City’s strategic objectives.
• Data Platform
  • Carry out administrative tasks on the City’s Azure Databricks based Data Engineering environment including performance optimization, cost monitoring, availability monitoring and capacity planning.
  • Ensure that the City’s IT security policies are correctly implemented on the data platform.
  • Identity and Access Management for data platform users.
  • Administer the city’s on-premise SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) environment including upgrades, patches and user administration.
• Data engineering
  • Participate in requirement and design workshops to provide input on feasibility and solution options.
  • Design and implement ETL/ELT pipelines and dimensional models under a medallion architecture on the Azure Databricks platform.
  • Conduct unit testing and validation of your built solutions, and work with team to rectify any defects identified through their additional testing.
  • Maintain technical documentation of built solutions.
  • Establish and maintain DevOps practices for Data Engineering, including version control, and CI/CD pipelines for automating the testing, building, and deployment of data pipelines and related applications.

• Advise team lead on opportunities for continuous improvement of processes and technologies for Data Engineering in line with industry best practice.
• Mentor junior team members in Data Engineering practices and provide thought leadership in this field. 

About you
To be successful in this role you will have a strong understanding of, and experience with, ETL/ELT and data warehouse architectures, particularly Databricks and Azure Data Factory (ADF).

Essential Experience:

• A tertiary qualification in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Management or equivalent plus relevant post-graduate qualifications, or an equivalent combination of formal training and at least 4 years’ experience in a similar role.
• Advanced skills in SQL and Python, as relevant to data ingestion and transformation in a data warehousing context.
• Demonstrated experience and knowledge of conceptual data models, dimensional data models and semantic layers, including collaborating on design with relevant stakeholders.
• Strong theoretical understanding and practical experience in Azure or a similar cloud ecosystem, with the ability to advise on solution architecture and awareness of performance and cost implications of design decisions in a data platform architecture.
• Demonstrated skills to support, influence, and collaborate with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
• Demonstrated experience providing technical thought leadership and mentoring junior Data Engineers.

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

Create our future together at the City of Greater Geelong
At the 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've built 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.

A career with us
Central Geelong-based City employees are now based in 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:

• 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 at Swim Sport and Leisure facilities
• unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning 

Applications and Enquiries
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Applications close Friday 5th April at 11:55pm.

Enquiries: Niall Ridge | Business Analyst | ***********@geelongcity.vic.gov.au

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