Data Engineer - Contract NV1/NV2

Contract Type:

Location:

Sydney - NSW 

Industry:

IT

Category:

Data Engineer

Contact Name:

Greg Perl

Contact Email:

greg.perl@pra.com.au

Date Published:

26-Mar-2026

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Data Engineer to support the delivery of advanced, secure data platforms across a distributed and multi-cloud environment. This role will focus on enabling federated analytics, building scalable data pipelines, and delivering real-time insights across edge and centralised systems within a secure government context.
  
Key Responsibilities
  • Design and deliver federated analytics solutions across multi-cloud and hybrid environments
  • Build and optimise batch and streaming data pipelines
  • Develop scalable analytics platforms and enable data-driven decision making
  • Implement observability, monitoring, and performance optimisation frameworks
  • Ensure compliance with data sovereignty and locality requirements
  • Collaborate with DevOps teams to support CI/CD and infrastructure automation
  • Deliver custom dashboards and visualisations for distributed environments
  • Support edge analytics use cases, including low-latency ETL and ML inference
Skills & Experience

Federated Analytics & Querying
  • Experience with AlloyDB, AlloyDB Omni, BigQuery Omni, Looker
  • Anthos for multi-cloud data access
  • Apache Iceberg, Trino
  • Strong understanding of federated SQL and hybrid query optimisation
Data Pipelines & Processing
  • Workflow orchestration using Airflow
  • Transformations using dbt
  • Streaming and batch processing with Flink, Spark, Presto
  • Experience with Dataform, Dataproc, Pub/Sub
Analytics & Observability
  • Monitoring tools such as Cloud Monitoring, OpenTelemetry
  • Prometheus / Grafana
  • Anthos Config Management
DevOps & Infrastructure
  • Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
  • CI/CD pipelines (Cloud Build, Jenkins, GitOps)
  • Experience working across hybrid and multi-cloud environments
Data Engineering & Compliance
  • Strong background in data and analytics engineering
  • Understanding of data sovereignty and locality constraints
  • Experience building distributed data platforms
Visualisation & Edge Analytics
  • Development of custom dashboards(site-specific and global views)
  • Experience with edge analytics, including low-latency ETL and on-device ML inference
Canberra based individuals will also be highly considered.

 Great long term contract opportunity, if you would like to hear more please apply and all suitable individuals will contacted for a discussion.
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