Senior Data Engineer

Senior Data Engineer – Full time permanent role – Parramatta CBD as base location – Flexible working arrangements

• Transformative Impact: Join a data-led team dedicated to using data for good, ensuring Uniting’s care standards remain industry-leading and improving service delivery through business intelligence.
• End-to-End Engagement: Be part of the complete data product development lifecycle, from requirements gathering to design, development, testing, release, and usage analytics, working alongside passionate colleagues from various parts of the organisation.
• Cutting-Edge Technology: Utilise the latest tools like Snowflake, Azure Data Factory, Azure DevOps, JavaScript, and Python to innovate and automate, making a significant social impact while enhancing operational efficiency.
• Base Salary + Super and NFP Salary Packaging Benefits (extra $18,550 tax-free) – Take home more pay.

About Uniting

At Uniting, we believe in taking real steps to make the world a better place. We work to inspire people, enliven communities, and confront injustice. We are Compassionate, Respectful, Imaginative and Bold

About the role

Uniting is a data-led organisation. In the Data & Analytics team, we boldly lead Uniting on the data and analytics journey – to inform staff to make the right decisions at the right time.

We are passionate about using data for good. We make sure Uniting’s care standards remain industry-leading by using data to alert staff to potential problems. We use business intelligence to improve service delivery. If you love the idea of applying your data skills to supercharge operations, this is the role for you.

You will work with people who are passionate about making a difference from many parts of the organisation. You will work end-to-end on data product development – requirements, design, development, testing, release, and product improvement through usage analytics.

You’ll also get to use the latest technology to make the world a better place –Snowflake, Azure Data Factory, Azure DevOps, JavaScript/Python. If you want a challenge to automate and innovate using DevOps tools and techniques, whilst making a huge social impact, then this opportunity is for you.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop data products (Data Warehousing, Data Integration, Data Insights) to add lasting value to Uniting services: Gathering, clarifying and documenting requirements; designing solutions; developing code/SQL, testing, UAT support, releases; usage analytics and monitoring.
• Running and improving the process of data product support and development through automation: e.g. access requests, data refreshes, releases, source control, knowledge management.
• Ensure functional & non-functional quality through data profiling, automated and manual tests, performance testing.
• Work under general direction and ensure good staff experience through effective communication such as written confirmation, expectation management, personal accountability, scope and time management.
• Plan through the logical steps to deliver a product from end to end through sprints whilst putting yourself in the shoes of Uniting staff to make your products understandable and intuitive.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualifications in IT or a related discipline.

Skills

• Fluent written and oral communication– ability to communicate with non-technical and technical staff – to be understood by staff.
• Empathy and insight to understand the roles, pain points and opportunities for data products for Uniting staff around managing services and caring for customers.
• Strong SQL skills:
  • Data profiling (understanding, testing and proving assumptions about the format of data, and relationships between data; able to articulate the meaning of data; understanding of cardinality).
  • Querying (correlated and uncorrelated subqueries, left, inner, anti joins, aggregations and filters and subqueries, union/except, null ordering, analytic and partitioning functions).
  • Snowflake desirable
• Data modelling skills:
  • Kimball or other methodologies.
  • Performance tuning.
  • PowerBI skills optional
• Time, scope and quality management through oral and written communication.
• Programming/Scripting – JavaScript/Python, PowerShell, or similar.
• Git or similar source control tools.
• Problem-analysis and problem-solving skills.

Experience

• Hands-on experience designing, developing and supporting Data Warehousing and Data Engineering solutions.
• DevOps and automation – hands-on experience automating aspects of product development and support such as Python scripting, calling APIs, automated releases etc.
• Significant experience with non-technical staff showing your skills in communication, empathy and insight.
• Experience in mastering new tools or techniques related to data.

What We Offer You

• A rewarding career with a leading human services organisation.
• Up to $18,550 NFP salary packaging available.
• Access to our U rewards program with exclusive discounts.
• Flexible work hours for work-life balance.
• Access to Fitness Passport – Live your best life.
• A supportive and inclusive and collaborative work environment.
• Opportunities for professional growth.
• Purchase of additional leave.

How to apply:

Send your CV and a brief cover letter highlighting why this role appeals to you – Applications reviewed upon receipt.

Uniting is a Child Safe Organisation committed to promoting the safety, wellbeing and inclusion of children and young people. We also celebrate the diversity of ability, age, ethnicity, faith, sexual orientation, intersex variation, or gender identity and always welcome everyone exactly as they are.

Employment with Uniting is subject to satisfactory background checks which may include a national police check, reference checks, working with children checks, and NDIS checks.