Data Engineer

• Great opportunity to build and support the continuous evolution of Council's EDP

• Attractive Camberwell location, flexible/hybrid working arrangements

• Limited Tenure Fixed term until 27/10/27 Full time Salary $114,259 - $127,588 per annum (plus super and RDO)

A little bit about the role

The Data Engineer will support the City of Boroondara's goal of enhancing data management and analytics across the organisation.

This role will have a significant role in building ingestion pipelines from various sources to the enterprise data platform, redefining, maintaining and enhancing Council's data governance framework, standards and documentation. Working with engineers, analysts and business stakeholders to ensure that the structure, quality, accuracy, and accessibility of Council's data support high quality analytics and insights for decision making.

A little bit about you

You will have solid data engineering skills and demonstrated experience delivering ETL/ELT pipelines in a metadata-driven medallion architecture at enterprise scale (Microsoft Fabric / Databricks / Azure data factory / Synapse). You will bring demonstrated experience in maintaining and improving data governance within organisations, including applying standards for metadata, data quality, lineage, security, and access and the ability to contribute to model standardisation and compliance.

You will have

• Experience writing T-SQL queries to driver business logic in stored procedures, functions, views

• Experience working with Azure services, including Azure data lake, Azure storage accounts, function apps, and Azure APIM.

• Demonstrated data-warehouse skills and experience, including onboarding new sources, applying business transformations, and building fact/dimension models (including SCD and incremental loads).

• Real-time streaming experience with Event Hubs, Spark Structured Streaming or Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Data Explorer (Kusto) with KQL, and Azure Service Bus.

• Well-developed written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate with engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders to clarify requirements and facilitate agreement on data standards and protocols.

• Experience developing clear data governance documentation, including runbooks, pipeline diagrams, and lineage records, and supporting implementation by responsible owners.

• Experience in agile delivery, including working in sprints using Jira/Azure DevOps, documenting processes in Confluence, tracking tickets in ServiceNow, and utilising Git and CI/CD workflows.

• Ability to rapidly assimilate new information and adapt to changing priorities and tooling

Want to know more?

For further information about this opportunity please refer to the or contact Shridar Wangnekar via email on to schedule a confidential discussion.

What sets us apart?

• A supportive and friendly workplace culture that values diversity, collaboration and continuous improvement.

• Staff benefits such as flexible working arrangements, wellbeing programs, gym and pool memberships

• An investment in your ongoing professional development and career growth

Employment requirements

• Applicants must have the right to work in Australia.

• Preferred applicants will be required to undergo a National Police Record Check.

How to apply

Please submit your application online via the 'Apply' button by
Sunday 2 November 2025
All applications must be made via the online portal; no applications direct to the hiring manager or from recruitment agencies will be considered.

We understand that this portal may not meet the needs of people who rely on Assistive Technology or have other diverse requirements. If you have any difficulty using our recruitment system, please do not hesitate to contact People Culture and Development on or to allow us to help in any way we can.

Who are we?

The City of Boroondara is a metropolitan council, representing more than 170,000 people in the inner-eastern suburbs of Melbourne. A leader in the local government sector, with a reputation for innovation and excellence, we believe in providing an environment where our staff thrive, both in the work they do and in how they learn and develop as people and professionals.

We like to challenge the norm and we are investing significantly in innovation and technology improvements in order to provide our customers with an even greater experience and engagement. We are putting our customers at the forefront of what we do with our organisation wide initiative, Transforming Boroondara Program.

You will be instrumental in driving this change across the organisation using best practice approaches to successfully support us from the now to our desired future state.

With so much going on it's a great time to join Boroondara