• Flexible location + hybrid work arrangements
• Full-time and fixed term (Until Dec 2025)
• HEW 7 $101,858 - $112,156  + 17% Superannuation

Who are we?

Deakin is a cutting-edge public university in Victoria, revolutionising education with 61,000 students across seven campuses: Melbourne Burwood, Geelong Waurn Ponds, Geelong Waterfront, Warrnambool, Deakin University Lancaster University Indonesia (DLI), GIFT City, India and our dynamic online Campus. We're proud to be a progressive and open-minded university, delivering the highest student satisfaction in Victoria and consistently ranked in the top 1% of the world's universities.

About the role:
The Data Engineer is responsible for building and optimising data pipelines, managing ETL processes, and ensuring data quality and compliance across Deakin's research data platforms. This role collaborates on data model design and data standardisation and integrates new data sources to support effective reporting and drive decision-making.

As a Data Engineer, you will:

• Identify and lead ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes to extract data from various sources, transform it into a usable format, and load it into data repositories, ensuring data quality and consistency.
• Consult a diverse range of stakeholders to respond to data and platform performance, monitoring, and drive the design and implementation of solutions that meet business requirements.
• Collaborate closely with data governance teams to ensure that data practices align with university-wide standards and policies, supporting compliance and data integrity across the BI environment.
• Develop and implement initiatives to automate data workflows and improve data processing efficiency, ensuring the BI platforms can scale with organisational growth.
• Establish systems and procedures to guide work, track progress, strive for excellence, and continually evaluate progress, and effectively overcome barriers to achieve outcomes.
• Provide specialist technical advice and solutions to support the effectiveness of Deakin’s business data platform.

 To be successful, you’ll have:

• A Degree with substantial subsequent relevant experience; or
• Extensive experience and management expertise in technical or administrative fields; or
• An equivalent combination of relevant experience and/or education/training.
• Experience in designing, developing, and optimising data pipelines and ETL processes within enterprise data environments.

Here's how to apply: 

Please submit your updated resume along with a brief cover letter outlining your relevant skills and experience by clicking the 'Apply' button.

For a confidential discussion regarding this role, please contact Dipu Chandradethan (Senior Applications and Integration Developer) via email at dipu.chandradethan@deakin.edu.au 

For a copy of the position description, please see below:

 PD - Data Engineer - 570407.pdf

Applications for this position close at 11.55pm on Sunday the 6th of April.

Are You Ready?

Deakin is a Victorian university with a global impact. We are an agile, dynamic, and innovative university committed to making a positive impact through our excellence in education, research and innovation and the contributions we make to the wider community.

We understand that our reputation has been built on the dedication and expertise of our staff and we offer a dynamic and diverse working environment with opportunities to grow and develop careers. We believe that a progressive, thriving culture will ensure that people choose to come, and stay at Deakin and contribute to our ongoing success.

We value diversity and aim to build an inclusive environment that champions, embraces and respects differences. We support and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and people of all abilities, cultures, sexual orientation, and genders.