Role Overview:

We are looking for a Data Engineer to support large-scale government and defence-related data projects, focusing on building secure, scalable, and reliable data platforms and ETL/ELT pipelines across cloud and enterprise environments.

Job Responsibilities:

Data Engineering & Platform Development

• Design and develop scalable and reliable data pipelines.
• Build enterprise data platforms, including data warehouses, data lakes, and lakehouses.
• Implement cloud, hybrid, and on-premises data architectures aligned with enterprise standards.

ETL/ELT & Data Integration

• Lead ETL/ELT pipeline development, with Talend as a highly preferred platform.
• Integrate structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data sources.
• Implement and maintain data quality, validation, and error-handling frameworks.

Data Management & Governance

• Design and manage data storage solutions with a strong focus on object storage, data quality, and data governance.
• Implement and maintain data lifecycle management and cost-optimisation strategies.
• Ensure data lineage, traceability, and auditability.

Analytics & BI Enablement

• Engineer analytics-ready data models for reporting and self-service analytics.
• Enable BI dashboards, reports, and analytics through performant and governed data pipelines.

Security & Compliance

• Ensure compliance with government security and privacy requirements.
• Implement and maintain encryption, access controls, secure data handling practices, and system security policies.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in enterprise data engineering roles.
• Strong hands-on data engineering experience.
• Strong SQL and Python skills.
• Experience with ETL/ELT tools, with Talend highly preferred.
• Experience with data warehouses, data lakehouses, data lakes, and object storage systems.
• Qlik Sense Enterprise integration experience is highly preferred.
• Prior CAT 1 / G50 security clearance is required.
• Previous experience delivering MINDEF projects is required.