Work Type: Ongoing - Full-time
Salary: $116,413 - $140,849
Grade: VPS 5
Occupation: IT and telecommunications
Location: Melbourne - CBD and Inner Metro suburbs
Reference: 11712
About Us
The Department of Government Services (DGS) was established on 1 January 2023 to improve everyone’s experience of doing business and interacting with the Victorian government. We bring important day-to-day services together in one department to make things easy and seamless for Victorians and businesses. We are doing this by connecting and digitising our systems and platforms across state and local government as well as streamlining our corporate and procurement services.
You can find out more about our Ministers, leadership and entities here: Department of Government Services.
About the Branch Group
The Consumer Affairs and Local Government (CALG) group is responsible for policy development; regulatory design and administration; system and program design; and the delivery of services in the best interest of Victorians. Spanning both the Consumer Affairs and Local Government portfolios, the group identifies strategic priorities, drives system and regulatory reform and coordinates DGS’ emergency management responsibilities to improve practical outcomes for the community.
About the Role
The Senior Data Engineer is a key member of the Regulatory Data Insights team, responsible for designing, building, and maintaining data platforms and pipelines that power trusted analytics and regulatory intelligence across CAV and the wider group. Reporting to the Technical Data Lead, Regulatory Insights and Systems, the role leads complex engineering initiatives across Microsoft Fabric, Azure, and over time Databricks, ensuring regulatory, compliance, and operational datasets are reliable, secure, and ready for analytics and AI.
The position enhances CAV’s data foundations by engineering Lakehouses/Warehouses in OneLake, developing scalable ingestion and transformation pipelines, and implementing reusable data engineering patterns that integrate multiple internal and external systems. This enables high‑quality insights, dashboards, and AI‑ready data products that support policy development, regulatory strategy, compliance intelligence, operational improvement, and public reporting.
The Senior Data Engineer provides expert technical advice on data architecture, performance, and governance; and contributes to standards, CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks, and documentation that underpin the reliability of the Regulatory Data Insights function.
Working closely with the Enterprise Architect, Senior Data Analysts, ICT, and broader regulatory and intelligence teams, the Senior Data Engineer champions best‑practice data engineering, modern cloud patterns, and scalable platform design that strengthens the department’s analytical and AI readiness. The role also supports the future introduction of Databricks, helping ensure interoperability and consistent engineering standards across platforms.
Key Accountabilities
About You
We are seeking applicants who have demonstrated experience from the following criteria:
Desirable
Mandatory requirements
A tertiary qualification in an information technology or data‑related field and/or substantial experience in data engineering, cloud services, or enterprise data platforms are required.
This role is an ongoing position. This position is only open to applicants with relevant rights to work in Australia.
For more information, please see the Position Description.
How to apply
Apply before the advertised closing date 11:59pm on 14 October 2026. All applications should include:
· a resume; and
· a cover letter which addresses the key selection criteria (within three pages).
Other relevant information
To be eligible for appointment to this role, applicants will possess corresponding work rights for the advertised employment period. Appointment to an ongoing role is only available to an Australian/New Zealand citizen or an Australian Permanent Resident. Preferred applicants will be required to undertake pre-employment screening. DGS actively promotes diversity, inclusion and an equal opportunity workplace. We welcome applicants from all diverse backgrounds, including people with disabilities and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. All roles at DGS can be worked flexibly, however it may differ from role to role.