• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand data access, reporting and analysis requirements and develop innovative and efficient solutions.
• Ongoing full-time opportunity to work with a high-performing and passionate team in the Victorian Public Service.
• VPS Grade 5: $113,022 - $136,747 plus superannuation.

The Department of Justice and Community Safety is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to provide a critical role within Justice Health.

About the Business Unit

Justice Health is part of the Corrections and Justice Services (CJS) group in the Department of Justice and Community Safety and supports the Minister for Corrections. CJS also comprises Corrections Victoria; Policy, Strategy and System Outcomes; Group Services and Coordination; and Justice Services (which includes Community Correctional Services and other justice programs). CJS plays an integral role in developing safer and more resilient communities and in delivering a trusted justice and community safety system.

The Health Contracts and Performance Unit includes teams responsible for: contract management of all custodial health providers; data analysis to inform performance oversight and service improvements; and coordinating and driving service enhancements.

About the Role

Justice Health has an ambitious agenda to unify and uplift its data culture. A value-led approach is needed to deliver the right governance practices to support Justice Health's role as data steward for sensitive health data.

Working in a team of Senior Data Analysts, you will use solid programming skills, software engineering skills, and an understanding of data technologies and integration tools to provide analysts with data in usable format and will be responsible for building and maintaining Justice Health' data warehouse. To be successful you will have a passion for data architecture design and data management. Your significant skills and experience using Business Intelligence tools, ETL tools, building and maintaining data warehouse, interrogating databases and data extraction/manipulation methods, and in establishing data governance frameworks will enable you to play a lead role in influencing how DJCS manage and leverage data across its systems.

Some of your duties will include:

• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with key internal and external stakeholders to identify sources of information for health service-related data, electronic medical records systems and other data sets, to understand what can be captured and data feeds to be recorded for each item, test their reliability and performance.
• Create, build, deploy, and maintain data warehouse system, including supporting technologies.
• Building and managing robust and scalable ETL pipelines for extracting, transforming, and loading data into data warehouses and/or data lakes.

To learn more about this role before applying, please read the attached position description.

About you

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Evidenced understanding of database concepts, data warehousing principles and technologies, design (logical/physical) and data mining (SQL platform) and clinical health information systems (desirable).
• Proven experience in data integration and development of data pipelines using technologies such as Talend/SSIS, and experience in managing visualisation and data presentation tools (Tableau/Power BI) and development of reports and dashboards (desirable).
• Experience in Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery practice, pipeline deployments patterns (Github/DevOps), version control, testing and automation.
• Sound knowledge of data governance, security protocols, and compliance with data privacy regulations.

Qualifications/requirements

• Relevant database certification (MSSQL) is essential, and ICT tertiary qualifications are desirable.

How to Apply

Please click the Apply button on this advertisement. Applications should include a resume and covering letter. Attachments can be uploaded in .doc, .docx, .pdf, .txt or .rtf formats.

The successful candidate will be required to undergo pre-employment checks which may include a Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check (NCCHC) and misconduct screening.

If you require adjustments to the recruitment and selection process, or require an alternative format to any of the application material, please don't hesitate to get in touch with the contact person listed on this ad.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

CHILD SAFE STATEMENT OF COMMITMENT:

The Department of Justice and Community Safety is committed to the safety and wellbeing of children and young people. We seek to prevent harm of any kind impacting children and young people and have zero tolerance for racism, child abuse and inequality. Children and young people's rights, relationships, identity, and culture must be recognised and respected, their voices heard, and their concerns acted upon. We aim to foster a culturally safe, child safe and child friendly environment for all children and young people we have contact with, deliver services to, or are impacted by our work.