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Data Engineer

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-17 → 2026-10-04

Core

Build and maintain large-scale data pipelines for a Federal Government client, focusing on ingestion, curation, and extraction of data sets.

Role type

Data Engineer

Builds

Data pipelines and data lake integrations for government clients

Domain

Big data processing and analytics

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Spark, Kafka, Scala, Python, Java, Hadoop HDFS, Amazon S3, data modeling, schema design, Apache Airflow, Git

Preferred skills

Monitoring and logging tools, workflow management

Technologies

Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, Hadoop HDFS, Amazon S3, Apache Airflow, Git

Responsibilities

Maintain and develop Spark pipelines to process large-scale data sets; Ingest tables into data lake from Kafka using batch or real-time processing; Run Spark jobs for ingestion, curation, and extraction; Alter schemas and configs to meet business requirements; Troubleshoot and resolve bugs in data processing pipelines; Monitor performance and troubleshoot issues using logging and monitoring tools; Document best practices and develop standards for data processing pipelines.

Seniority

Mid-level, hands-on IC

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