Azure Data Engineer

Description:

We have a fantastic opportunity for Data Engineers to join the Data Governance & Analytics team to provide technical expertise and leadership in data analytics and business intelligence. This will involve development, enhancement and support of reporting, data analytics and business intelligence services in our Azure enterprise data platform.

The team’s portfolio is about to grow exponentially with an exciting enterprise wide analytics program to land key operational data to deliver financial optimization, performance and compliance insights. Working across the organisation and with other key transformation projects, the program aims to set up foundational corporate reporting with increased data accessibility and self-service, in preparation for the long-term strategy of a new EMR and Clinical Informatics.

The Data Engineer role is responsible for:

• Management and development of data pipelines feeding the enterprise data platform and underpinning reporting and analytics solutions;
• Profiling and modelling data from multiple sources, developing on our semantic layer, assimilating into meaningful inputs for databases;
• Proactively monitor and maintain data warehouse environments, including defining optimisation approaches to improve performance or cost;
• Defining, scoping and managing data analytics development and enhancement initiatives
• Implementing appropriate data management and data quality processes and tools to ensure the integrity, timeliness of reporting systems;
• Identifying new opportunities for data gathering to fill gaps in existing models and/or enhance models in order to drive higher levels of performance throughout the organisation;
• Actively contributing in the review, selection and implementation of tools in conjunction with the team to provide appropriate subject matter expertise for stakeholders;

The successful candidate will have data modelling and pipeline development experience critical to supporting reports and performance metrics from complex and disparate transactional systems. You will be proficient of technical development and service standards, aligning to best practice and new technologies and working in an agile framework. Technical experience in extracting, cleansing and analysing data is essential.

Additionally, you must demonstrate:

• Excellent knowledge and technical skill in RDBMS, SQL and data warehousing and related data modelling methodologies (entity relationship, data flow, unified modelling language)
• Excellent knowledge of how data can be used to support effective decision-making;
• Excellent business acumen with the ability to work with stakeholders at all levels;
• Tertiary qualification in Information Technology, Health Informatics or related business area.