Data Platform Specialist

Epworth HealthCare is Victoria's largest not-for-profit private health care group, renowned for excellence in diagnosis, treatment, care and rehabilitation. Epworth is an innovator in Australia's health system, embracing the latest in evidence-based medicine to pioneer treatments and services for our patients. 

Our values and purpose define Epworth's approach and delivery. We pride ourselves on communicating and delivering them in a real and meaningful way. Every Patient Matters.

In this permanent full time Data Platform Specialist role, you will be responsible for building and operating the organisation's modern data platform, enabling secure, reliable, and cost-effective data delivery across the enterprise.

This role engineers scalable data pipelines and products across the full data lifecycle—including ingestion, streaming, transformation, storage, governance, and orchestration—using a variety of modern data tools and services. The specialist works closely with analytics, integration, and application teams to ingest, transform, and publish high-quality, governed datasets for clinical, operational, and research use.

You will make an impact by:

• Optimising, developing, validating and maintaining ETL and data integration solutions to connect applications, data stores, and analytic systems
• Building and maintain logical and physical data models
• Collaborating with technology and business partners to identify, define, develop, test, and implement a diverse set of data feeds
• Monitoring usage of the Data Platform to identify and prevent potential performance and capacity issues
• Assisting with the tuning of ETL processes and overall database and data platform performance

To be successful in this role…

You will have proven communication and problem-solving skills, and a deep understanding of data technology and how it can be applied to help our diverse user base manage their businesses and provide world class healthcare. You will possess a strong practical knowledge of various traditional and modern data warehouse architectures and have extensive experience developing data warehouses, data marts, data vaults, and data hub systems in a diverse set of organisations.

You will have:

• 5–8+ years of experience in data engineering or data platform roles, including 2–3+ years working with cloud-based data ecosystems.
• Proven experience building production-grade data pipelines involving messaging, CDC/streaming, transformation engines, and analytical data stores.
• ELT development using modern transformation frameworks (e.g., dbt), including implementation of tests, CI/CD integration, and environment promotion.
• Strong understanding of data modeling techniques (e.g., 3NF, Data Vault 2.0, star schemas), with hands-on experience implementing SCD/CDC merge logic and handling late-arriving data.
• Experience operating and orchestrating data workflows, including designing alerting mechanisms, retry strategies, and runbook-driven support processes.

Position Description      Inherent Requirements

Essential

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering or related discipline.

Desirable

• Data Engineer and/or Professional Cloud Architect certification; postgraduate qualification in Data/Analytics.

Why Join Epworth?

At Epworth, it's a community.

It's the sense of belonging and being part of an organisation and a team that works to make sure that every patient matters. In addition to this, you will have access to:

• Salary package up to $15,900 pre-tax annually, leading to greater take home pay
• The largest educational scholarship program of its kind in Australia
• Reduced cost of health services for you and your family at Epworth

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds. This includes First Nations peoples, people with disability, mature-age and young job seekers, members of the LGBTIQA+ community, and individuals from all cultural backgrounds. We are committed to providing an equitable, inclusive, and barrier-free recruitment experience for everyone.

If you need support during the application process or would like to discuss reasonable adjustments, we encourage you to let us know what you need to participate fully and confidently. We understand that sharing your needs can feel daunting, so please know that any information you provide will be treated with the utmost confidentiality and respect.

Ready to Make a Difference?

To apply, click the I'm Interested button to attach your CV and cover letter.

For more information about the role, refer to the attached position description or contact [email protected] /

Please Note:  Applications are reviewed as received. Don't wait—this role may be filled before the closing date.

Apply now… we've over 8,000 perspectives at Epworth and we're ready to welcome yours

It is a condition of employment with Epworth HealthCare, subject to reasonable exemptions, that you have had an annual Influenza vaccination, where this is required under Epworth policy.

As a child safe organisation, all successful applicants are required to satisfactorily clear a National Police Check (conducted by Epworth) and may be required to hold a valid employee Working with Children Check (provided by you).

At Epworth, we believe inclusion and diversity are essential to our culture and values. We focus on fairness and opportunity for all – across race, ability, ethnicity, gender, age, sexuality, cultures and beliefs – that reflect the communities we work in. At Epworth, we care.