Principal Business Intelligent Developer

Company description:

Department of Communities and Justice

Job description:

Business Intelligence Developer

• Location Parramatta with flexibility to work from office locations around NSW
• Full time (35 hours per week) ongoing opportunity
• Clerk Grade 11/12 - Salary $149,739 to $173,174 + superannuation and leave loading

Your role

This exciting opportunity is to join the Housing Policy and Strategy Division as a Principal Business Intelligence Developer. This role will demand a variety of complex data modelling, warehousing, and analytics activities to help grow the organization's data and analytics capabilities. It will centre around data analysis and reporting to support strategy and decision-making while leaning on collaboration with stakeholders at various levels to make sure solutions meet business needs.

What you'll do

As part of the System Insights Team, you will take a front and centre role in supporting and improving the data and analytics capability of the organization. You will contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of high-quality BI solutions. You will tackle complex data analysis and data visualisation tasks to support strategies and policy initiatives for the management of social housing.

You will be challenged to build and strengthen business intelligence in a diverse and complex environment, where political and social sensitivity is key. You'll need to ensure effective knowledge transfer when communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences and manage negotiations with stakeholders at a senior level.

What we're looking for

This role operates with significant autonomy in consultation with the Manager and within the context of the role and project priorities, so will require someone with great self-management and accountability for the content, accuracy, validity and integrity of their work.

The ideal will also have:

• Experience using Qlik Sense, Tableau, GCP (BiqQuery and Data Fusion)
• Demonstrated experience in management and timely delivery of complex and specialized data modelling, warehousing and analytic tasks
• Proven ability to engage and collaborate effectively with at a senior level and develop productive relationships with team members

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What We Offer

We offer a variety of benefits, including:

• A challenging and rewarding career

• Flexible, autonomous work environment

• Competitive pay and conditions

• Training and development opportunities to build and maintain capabilities

• Health & Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programs.

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We do work that really matters

Working for the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) provides lots of opportunities to make a real difference. We collaborate with other agencies and community partners, to improve lives and realise the potential of children, adults, families and communities. We're focused on breaking, rather than managing, disadvantage. It's work that really matters.

Apply now and join Australia's top public sector employer where we will support you and provide an exciting and flexible working environment

Are you ready to join us?

Click apply, attach an up-to-date résumé (maximum 5 pages) and a cover letter (maximum 3 pages) addressing the targeted question below with a brief outline on how you meet the requirements of the role:

• In 500 words or less, please tell us about a time when you helped build or improve business intelligence or data analytics capabilities in a complex or sensitive environment?

Applications close 27 August 2025 at 11:59pm AEST.

Got a question?

For more information about the role or what it's like to work for DCJ, please contact the hiring manager Martin Nunez on or at

If you've got a question about applying or would benefit from an adjustment in the recruitment process to help you perform at your best (including an alternate method submission of the application), please call Jess Tan on or via

Visit Recruitment adjustments on the DCJ website to learn more.

Inclusion and Diversity lies at the heart of how we recruit

We continue to hire great people with a wide variety of skills, experience and backgrounds. This includes people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, women, people identifying as LGBTIQ+, culturally and linguistically diverse people, carers and other diversity groups.

To find out what DCJ are doing to build an inclusive and diverse workforce, visit Inclusion and diversity on the DCJ website.

Other Information

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