Azure Data Engineer

Azure Data Engineers (Multiple) 

• Contract duration: 12 + 12 + 12 months 

• Location of work: ACT, Offsite* (Anywhere in Australia) 

• Application closing date: Wednesday, 20 August 2025

• Security Clearance: Existing AGSVA baseline or able to obtain 

• Estimated start date: Wednesday, 01 October 2025

Our federal client, the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) is seeking multiple Azure Data Engineers to join its Enterprise Analytics section to work across several data and analytics platforms. We are seeking candidates with strong experience in developing Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) and Extract, Load, Transform (ELT) processes, and /or the development of data products and complex data visualisations.

Selection CriteriaEssential 

1. Demonstrated experience developing ETL/ELT processes for complex and/or large data movement, transformation and/or visualisations, particularly in a cloud environment.

2. Experience preparing data optimised for query performance in cloud computed engines. E.g. • Distributed computing engines (Spark) • Graph Databases • Azure SQL

3. Experience working with Engineering, Storage and Analytics services in cloud infrastructure.

Desirable 

1. Experience working with Azure Data Factory and Databricks.

2. Experience/Knowledge of working with Data Lake and Lakehouses