• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand data access, reporting and analysis requirements and develop innovative and efficient solutions.
• Ongoing full-time opportunity to work with a high-performing and passionate team in the Victorian Public Service.
• VPS Grade 5: $113,022 - $136,747 plus superannuation.
  The Department of Justice and Community Safety is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to provide a critical role within Justice Health.

QUALIFICATIONS/REQUIREMENTS

• Relevant database certification (MSSQL) is essential, and ICT tertiary qualifications are desirable.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Justice Health has an ambitious agenda to unify and uplift its data culture. A value-led approach is needed to deliver the right governance practices to support Justice Health’s role as data steward for sensitive health data.
Working in a team of Senior Data Analysts, you will use solid programming skills, software engineering skills, and an understanding of data technologies and integration tools to provide analysts with data in usable format and will be responsible for building and maintaining Justice Health’ data warehouse. To be successful you will have a passion for data architecture design and data management. Your significant skills and experience using Business Intelligence tools, ETL tools, building and maintaining data warehouse, interrogating databases and data extraction/manipulation methods, and in establishing data governance frameworks will enable you to play a lead role in influencing how DJCS manage and leverage data across its systems.

Some of your duties will include:

• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with key internal and external stakeholders to identify sources of information for health service-related data, electronic medical records systems and other data sets, to understand what can be captured and data feeds to be recorded for each item, test their reliability and performance.
• Create, build, deploy, and maintain data warehouse system, including supporting technologies.
• Building and managing robust and scalable ETL pipelines for extracting, transforming, and loading data into data warehouses and/or data lakes.

To learn more about this role before applying, please read the attached position description.

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Evidenced understanding of database concepts, data warehousing principles and technologies, design (logical/physical) and data mining (SQL platform) and clinical health information systems (desirable).
• Proven experience in data integration and development of data pipelines using technologies such as Talend/SSIS, and experience in managing visualisation and data presentation tools (Tableau/Power BI) and development of reports and dashboards (desirable).
• Experience in Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery practice, pipeline deployments patterns (Github/DevOps), version control, testing and automation.
• Sound knowledge of data governance, security protocols, and compliance with data privacy regulations