Senior Data and Research Data Engineer

Job Description

Senior Data and Research Engineer – TSPV Cleared

• 12 months contract + 2x12-months extension options
• Australian Citizens with current TSPV clearance
• ACT, VIC – Onsite

Our esteemed Federal Govt. client is seeking a Senior Data Engineer (Data and Research) to support the design, development, deployment, testing and documentation of solutions.

In this role, you will prepare raw data for analytical or operational uses. You will make data accessible so that it can be used for optimisation, delivery of services and enhanced analytics solutions.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Identify and undertake analysis to define, structure and solve complex data engineering challenges. 
• Understand, use and build tools and techniques to develop and test data engineering solutions to achieve business outcomes. 
• Prepare, publish and provide advice on requirements, current and future state models and plans, designs and solutions to improve data interoperability, storage, analysis and transmission.
• Build maintain and deploy data pipelines analytical environments and models and data stores to store transform, integrate, analyse and transport data and meta-data from a variety of sources to enable others to use and analyse data.
• Responsible for the ethical use of data and interpreting and complying with legislation.
• Responsible for contributing to the management of the risks associated with the use of data including ensuring the security of data storage and transmission mechanisms.

Technical Skills

• Holds a Bachelor Degree in information technology, computer science, computer engineering, software engineering, applied math, statistics, physics or a related field.
• Holds a basic understanding of programming languages.
• Knowledge of operating systems.
• Strong understanding of analytics software.
• Define, structure and solve complex data engineering challenges.

Details:
Submission date: 16/10/2025
Duration: 12 months contract
Eligibility: Australian Citizenship with TSPV clearance - Mandatory
Location: ACT, VIC - Onsite 

If this opportunity aligns with your career goals, apply now or contact Varsha at our Canberra office on (02) 6257 8888 for more information.