Senior Data Engineer

Job Category: Community Services and Development

Make a difference where it matters most

At Housing Choices Australia, we believe everyone deserves a safe and affordable home. We are a leading not-for-profit housing provider committed to building inclusive and thriving communities. Our Five-Year Strategic Plan (2024-29) prioritises people and aims to deliver social impact, sustainable growth, and empowered teams.

Benefits

• Purposeful impact - make a meaningful difference in people's lives by supporting inclusive, safe, and affordable housing.
• Growth and development - enhance your skills and advance your career through tailored learning opportunities.
• Balance that works - enjoy 5 weeks annual leave and flexible working arrangements suited to your lifestyle.
• Valuable benefits - increase your income through salary packaging, and 16 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Supportive culture - be recognised and celebrated in an inclusive, values-driven workplace.

Job Description

About the role

The Senior Data Engineer is responsible for providing specialist expertise within the Data Platforms area of the Technology & Data Services team and more broadly across Housing Choices Australia as appropriate.

The primary purpose of Senior Data Engineer role is to provide expert data engineering pipeline design & build skills, data ETL, and hands on data modelling expertise in support of making core data assets available for access and consumption from Housing Choices selected data platform.

This role is a maximum-term, full-time opportunity for a period of 12 months.

• Design, develop and support scalable data pipelines, integrations and data solutions within Microsoft Fabric and Azure, ensuring reliable and efficient data delivery.
• Build and maintain curated data products using Bronze, Silver and Gold data architecture principles to support reporting, analytics and business applications.
• Implement data quality, monitoring, security, governance and recovery processes to ensure data services are accurate, secure, available and compliant.
• Manage source control, release processes and continuous improvement activities using Azure DevOps and Git, while maintaining high-quality technical documentation.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, vendors and technical teams to provide data platform expertise, drive best practices, mentor colleagues and deliver customer-focused solutions.

Desired Skills and Experience

About you

You will have:

• Bachelor of Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering or equivalent
• Demonstrated senior-level experience designing, building and operating production data platforms in Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Fabric.
• Practical experience with Microsoft Fabric data engineering capabilities, including Fabric Data Factory, OneLake, Lakehouse, Warehouse, notebooks, pipelines and enterprise data-integration patterns.
• Strong SQL, ETL/ELT, API-integration and data-modelling capability, including dimensional modelling, curated reporting data sets, performance tuning and data-quality controls.
• Working knowledge of Python, PySpark or equivalent technologies for data transformation, automation and orchestration.
• Experience applying data governance, security and privacy requirements in technical solutions

You must agree to undergo any required employment screening, including but not limited to a National Criminal History or Police Check, Working with Children or Vulnerable Persons Check, and NDIS Worker Screening Check.

Housing Choices Australia is a child safe organisation. We are committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people and have zero tolerance for child harm. All employees are expected to uphold our Child Safety Policy and Code of Conduct to ensure a safe environment for children.

Even if you do not meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply. We value unique experiences and perspectives.

We are committed to a strategy that supports tenant wellbeing, organisational growth, environmental responsibility, and workforce empowerment.

We are an inclusive and values-led employer, proudly welcoming people of all identities and backgrounds. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, culturally and linguistically diverse communities, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and those with lived experience of housing insecurity.

We support inclusive hiring practices. Please let us know your pronouns or if you require any adjustments during the application process, as we are here to assist you.

Applications close: 21 July 2026 unless a suitable candidate is identified earlier.

Disclaimer: To the best of Housing Choices Australia's knowledge, this information is valid at the time of publication.