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Data Engineer - Flexible Location

Life Without Barriers (National)

About the Organisation

Make a real difference in the lives of vulnerable Australians with this unique opportunity to provide both corporate expertise and community support. With a focus on people, not profit, Life Without Barriers’ corporate services team partners with our direct support staff, clients, and their families to ensure we continue our mission to change lives for the better. If a truly inclusive, collaborative, and fast-paced work environment sounds like your next career move, this is an opening not to be missed.

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose organisation of 8,000 employees working in more than 500 communities across Australia. We support children, young people and families, people with disability, older people, and people with mental illness. We work with people who are homeless and refugees and asylum seekers. Join a community of people dedicated to breaking down barriers.

We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each client's individual needs and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.

About the Role

This is a newly created role reporting to the Data Engineering Lead. You will work in a small cross functional team of data professionals (who all love data). Your primary goal will be to ensure that Life Without Barriers data users have the right data at the right time so that we can provide better outcomes for the people it supports.

This is a permanent full time role which can be based anywhere in Australia, this role can be based in one of our offices or working remotely.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, wrangle, model, join and build datasets from a variety of sources
  • Contribute to the development of data products for variety of data users
  • Set up and maintain ELT pipelines
  • Manage and optimise core data infrastructure (acquisition, storage, transformation)
  • Assist in the on-going goal of data self-service

Skills & Experience

  • Tertiary level qualifications in a computer science or a related IT discipline
  • Problem-solving skills, including the ability to think tactically and strategically
  • Interest in learning new platforms and utilising new technology
  • Exposure to key data engineering concepts and toolsets e.g. data lake vs. data warehouse, streaming data vs batched data, ELT/Analytical tools such as AWS Glue and Alteryx

Bonus:

  • Experience with Knime Analytics Platform will be highly regarded.

Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks including National Criminal History Record Check and Working with Children Check (where relevant to the role).

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work for one of Australia's largest social purpose organisation
  • Excellent tax benefits and salary sacrifice options
  • Challenging and rewarding position working in a modern IT environment

How to Apply

Include your resume and covering letter, click the apply button and follow the screen prompts. For any enquiries contact [email protected] using the subject line: Data Engineer - Flexible Location enquiry via EthicalJobs.

To be considered for and appointed to a position at Life Without Barriers, you must be vaccinated against COVID-19 or hold a valid medical exemption certificate.  You will be required to provide evidence of your vaccination status during the recruitment process.

We are dedicated to playing our part to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and bring continuity of care and support to our clients. With this in mind, if you are successful, we will discuss with you an alternative to a face to face interview.

Life Without Barriers supports the Royal Commission into violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of people with disability. We believe people with disability need to be heard and for these experiences to influence how support services like ours are delivered. View our statement here https://bit.ly/2GzZGWA

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