Biodiversity Information Technical Lead

EL 1 - $120,290 - $129,379
- Environment Information Australia
- Brisbane - QLD, Canberra - ACT, Hobart - TAS, Melbourne - VIC, Perth - WA
- Lead a dynamic technical team at the cutting edge of biodiversity informatics and linked data.
- Help design and implement solutions in a complex environment with many partners.
- Contribute to a major uplift in the management of national environmental data and information.

**Who we are**
Join Environment Information Australia in the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water producing key environmental information on our natural assets and championing the use of a range of data and information in decision-making to protect Australia’s natural environment, now and into the future.

The Environmental Data and Analysis Branch (EDAB) within EIA assembles, manages and analyses environmental data to provide a wide range of services and products to the department.

**The Job**
- Provide leadership for, and build the capacity of, team technical staff and contractors.
- Plan for and allocate technical staff capacity.
- Be responsible for the day-to-day and long-term technical operation of the BDR systems.
- Work with departmental, inter-departmental and vendor IT to support and expand operational capability and interactions with other systems.
- Work with DCCEEW staff and stakeholders to plan for future operations and data expansions.
- Lead the response to technical challenges in system operations and expansion.
- Support the analysis and use of linked semantic data through technical means, such as software engineering, programming and data structure design.
- Inform the continued development of the ABIS standard from a technical and operational point of view, including alignment and/or use of global biodiversity data standards.
- Provide engineering advice to partner organisations to assist them with generating and using ABIS data.

**Knowledge and Experience**
- Experience with IT/programming team leadership.
- 5+ years in a data systems management and development roles.
- Expertise in cloud computing.
- Personal, hands-on with web API development.
- Personal, hands-on with graph database development.
- Personal, hands-on experience with RDF data structures, tools and storage systems.

**Skills and Capabilities**
- Ability to build and maintain relationships with technical and non-technical staff and stakeholders at partner organisations.
- Deep technical knowledge of the operations of cloud-based RDF databases, web APIs and data transfer & translation systems and the ability to use that knowledge to build, troubleshoot and fix cloud-based RDF databases.
- Ability to plan for and implement data model and indexing changes to allow for growth in data volumes and scope.
- A high level of understanding of Semantic Web data models, Linked Data methods and technologies, and Knowledge Graph operations.
- Familiarity with Australian environmental data systems and practices.

**Desirable Qualifications**
- Tertiary or industry recognised qualifications in Information Technology, Software or Computer Engineering or similar.

**Eligibility**

**Citizenship -**To be eligible for employment with the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water you must be an Australian citizen.

**Security Clearance -**This position requires a** Baseline Vetting** security clearance. You will be required to obtain and maintain a clearance at this level.

**Pre-employment Check -** Your suitability for employment will be assessed through a pre-employment screening process. This process includes a requirement to undergo and satisfy a National Police Check, referee checks, character clearance and where required a pre-employment medical assessment, specified mandatory qualification(s) validation and a probation period of 6 months.

**For additional information, please read the Job Description below.