Data Engineer

Data Engineer

Brisbane CBD | Hybrid Working | 12-Month Contract

A long term contract opportunity is available for an experienced Data Engineer to join a major Queensland Government organisation delivering enterprise-scale data and analytics capabilities.

This is a hands-on role where you'll design, build and optimise modern data pipelines and products within an enterprise data platform, working with the latest Microsoft data technologies.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain enterprise data pipelines using Microsoft Fabric and Azure technologies.
• Develop ingestion and transformation processes across Bronze, Silver and Gold data layers.
• Create curated datasets and semantic models to support analytics and Power BI reporting.
• Implement data quality checks, validation processes and automated testing.
• Integrate data governance practices, including metadata management, lineage and data classification.
• Apply security and privacy-by-design principles across data engineering activities.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and Git-based workflows.
• Monitor, troubleshoot and optimise data pipelines for performance, reliability and cost efficiency.
• Produce technical documentation, runbooks and data dictionaries.
• Collaborate with product teams, analysts, architects and business stakeholders to deliver high-value data solutions.

Ideal skills and experience

• Demonstrated experience delivering enterprise data engineering solutions within complex environments.
• Strong experience with Microsoft Fabric, including Pipelines, Dataflows Gen2, Lakehouse, OneLake, SQL Endpoints and Notebooks.
• Advanced SQL and PySpark skills.
• Experience with Azure data services such as Azure Data Factory, Synapse Analytics or Databricks.
• Knowledge of modern data architectures, including Medallion (Bronze/Silver/Gold) and dimensional modelling.
• Experience supporting Power BI through high-quality curated datasets and semantic models.
• Exposure to Microsoft Purview and enterprise data governance practices.
• Experience implementing CI/CD using Azure DevOps and Git.
• Strong understanding of data security, privacy, governance and data quality principles.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively within multidisciplinary Agile teams.

Technology

Microsoft Fabric, Azure, SQL, PySpark, Azure Data Factory, Synapse Analytics, Databricks, Microsoft Purview, Power BI, Azure DevOps, Git, dbt, OneLake, Lakehouse.

This role will be offered as an initial 12 month contract + opportunity to extend.

To apply please send your resume or contact Nat on 0430 292 875 or Sign in to view email