Data Engineer

Job description

Your new company

A prominent Victorian State Government Organisation


Your new role

You will be working closely with the Manager Data Strategy, Management and Transformation, you will actively contribute to a positive organisational culture and achieve the highest standards of performance and integrity;

In this role you will,
  • Lead and role model high standards of performance, accountability, collaboration, ethics, and integrity; manage the allocated resources, budgets, contribute to business and project planning and reporting;
  • Support team to identify enterprise needs; design and build solutions for spatial and non-spatial data acquisition and ingestion, warehousing, architecture, and engineering based on requirements.
  • Support team to plan and execute testing in accordance with corporate practices and standards.
  • Create and maintain technical documentation, including but not limited to define and design, service level agreements, interface agreements, quick reference guides, data registries.


What you'll need to succeed

  • Have minimum 5 years’ experience in cloud data technologies including Microsoft Azure Data Services, Azure Data Lake, Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, SQL and Power BI.
  • Hands-on experience in Python and Rest APIs.
  • Experience delivering data engineering solutions and implementations.
  • Familiarity with deployment and data lifecycle management practices.
  • Experience designing and optimising workloads within capacity constraints to ensure reliable, performant pipelines
  • Knowledge of spatial data management (GIS) and ETL platforms preferably ArcGIS is preferrable
  • Experience migrating and modernising data solutions from on-premises or legacy systems into Microsoft Cloud.

What you'll get in return

  • Working in an organisation where they develop and grow careers.
  • A contractual opportunity offering excellent daily rate
  • Flexible working arrangements, including 3 day per week in the office.

What you need to do now

If you're interested in this role or know of someone that may be, please click ‘Apply Now’ or forward an updated CV to


LHS 297508 #3006558 - Gopalakrishnan Subramanian

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Job Summary

  • Published on: 08 Jul, 2026
  • Category: Data & Advanced Analytics
  • Vacancy: 1
  • Job type: Contractor
  • Salary:
  • Location: VIC - Melbourne CBD
  • Job Nature: Contractor

Company Details

  • Name: Hays
  • Location: VIC - Melbourne CBD