Data Engineer - ETL

Company Description

Every person at Leidos plays an important and valued role bringing science, engineering and technology together to produce practical solutions for our customers’ most complex problems. It’s how we help to make the world safer, healthier and more efficient - work that matters and a mission, like those of our customers, we are passionate about. We’re open minded, ambitious and committed to enabling our people to do their best work, to be inspired by what they can achieve and the impact they can have.

Here in Australia, we’re agile and growing fast. Our 1,400 employees are busy building an enviable reputation for innovation and delivery. And, as part of a US-based organisation with 37,000 people and a 50 year history, we are able to draw upon world-leading technical expertise to help us provide the best solutions to our customers.

The first thing you learn at Leidos Australia is to leave current thinking at the door. Our aim is to make the world a safer, healthier and more efficient place, but we won’t get far using existing ideas.

Due to our ongoing success, the Leidos family is growing rapidly across Melbourne and Canberra. This year is set to be an amazing year of growth and we need incisive minds like yours to keep highly complex systems functional and secure. 

Job Description

Your New Role

We have an opportunity for an experienced ETL Data Engineer, supporting a multi-year Defence program to deliver an enterprise Health Knowledge Management System. This capability will enable better clinical decision making for the ADF by providing market leading healthcare to ADF personnel.

As a Data Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and developing services that support an integrated Health Knowledge Management System that will deliver a wide range of clinical functions.

Joining the team at an early stage you will be an active contributor to the projects overall success. You will work closely with and participate in design reviews with the security, engineering and development teams to ensure the system components meet requirements.

Leading integration activities during delivery you will contribute to a successful program by:

• Install and configure Alteryx Designer and Alteryx Server.
• Drive profiling, cleansing, and enriching data from the source.
• Able to integrate and synchronise the data to the Master Data Management program in accordance with the best practice
• Implement data conversion and initial load of data in Alteryx Designer as per data governance and teams profiling strategy
• Provide guidelines for best practices in data integration between various sub-systems.
• Developing and extending best practice integration development standards and guidelines
• Identifying potential risks and issues and mitigations to resolve them
• Be the first point of contact for Alteryx tools
• Resolve issues relating to Alteryx tools

This role requires the successful applicant to be an Australian Citizen and hold a minimum NV-1 level Australian security clearance.

Qualifications

About You and What You'll Bring

Essential Experience

• Knowledge of Databases (Preferred: SQL Server)
• Ability to independently lead working sessions with cross-functional teams to understand and analyse the impact of requirements and changes to data structures.
• Demonstrated experience working in complex environments
• Proven experience designing, developing and testing enterprise integration services
• Having good understanding near real time data integration.
• Demonstrated experience developing interface specifications and interface control documentation.
• Responsibilities for integration service design and implementation specification development.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Self-starter; demonstrates initiative and can take accountability to deliver on-time outcomes.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills and an interest in working in a collaborative team environment
• Ability to work in an international environment and with remote teams
• Experience in building prototypes, POC and UI for demo

Desirable

• Alteryx Designer and Alteryx Server
• Understanding of data and systems architecture
• A genuine passion for hands-on coding, and an aptitude for problem-solving in an extremely fast-paced, collaborative environment
• Data modelling skills

Additional Information

What You’ll Love

At Leidos you’ll enjoy 12 weeks’ paid parental leave as a primary carer, flexible work practices, discounted health insurance, novated leasing and more. Foster your career through complete access to learning and development and mentoring opportunities, we have a strong track record of internal promotion and career transitions. Join a company who acknowledges “People First”. 

At Leidos, we embrace diversity and are committed to creating a truly inclusive workplace. We welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, veterans, neurodiverse people, and people of all genders, sexualities and age groups