Senior Reporting Systems Specialist

Job Description
Essential Energy is an organisation that values your voice, empowers your autonomy, recognises the strength in diversity, and prioritises your well-being while offering attractive remuneration and benefits. Take pride in having a meaningful impact on regional, rural and remote communities while being a pivotal player in the energy industry's future.

About The Role
We are currently recruiting for Senior Reporting Systems Specialist working within our Digital Services division and reporting into our Data Intelligence Manager.

As a Senior Reporting Systems Specialist, you will play a crucial role in supporting, developing, and optimizing Essential Energy's Business Intelligence and Reporting platforms. You will ensure the reliability and efficiency of key technologies, providing on-demand support and development work for various projects. Your role involves close collaboration with data analysts, business stakeholders, and IT professionals to deliver meaningful insights and reporting solutions.

This is a permanent opportunity.
This role can be based anywhere within Essential Energy's operational footprint .

Key Responsibilities

• Lead operational support activities, including incident, problem, change, and configuration management.
• Assess and implement patches and bug fixes to ensure system stability and performance.
• Design, develop, test, and promote solutions for new or changed requirements.
• Manage BI tools, including licensing, environment management, and security/access control.
• Maintain and optimize database structures using Azure Data Platform components.
• Ensure compliance with data governance principles and data privacy regulations.
• Promote the use of automation controls for development, release, and support activities.
• Drive continuous improvement and risk management within the Digital Services branch and wider ICT community.

• Ingestion data from other source systems such as:

• Oracle RDBMS

• SQL Server
• CSV, json and REST endpoints
• Qlik Replicate

Key Technologies
The Reporting System Platform consists of three different platform environments that you will be administrating:

• Legacy SQL Server platform utilising
• SQL Server Enterprise database hosted on a Windows High Availability cluster environment
• SQL Server Reporting Services
• Microsoft Master Data Services
• SQL Server Integration Service
• Windows Active Directory integration
• Current Azure Synapse platform hosting
• Azure Synapse using a dedicated SQL Pool and Azure Synapse Pipelines
• Azure SQL Server database
• Azure Key Vault
• Azure Data Factory
• Azure Data Lake Service
• Azure Databricks
• Azure DevOps with git repo using Git Hub Flows and CI/CD release process
• Entra integration
• Future Azure Databricks platform hosting
• Unity Catalog
• Managed Tables
• All Purpose, SQL Warehouse and Serverless compute
• Azure DevOps with git repo using Git Flows CI/CD release process
• Entra integration

Additionally, you will be administrating the two data visualisation platforms:

• Power BI – will premium capacity using Power BI Release Pipelines and Git Integration
• Tibco Spotfire

About You
You are a seasoned ICT professional with a strong background in Business Intelligence and Reporting platforms. Your expertise lies in analysing complex data sets and generating actionable insights to drive data-driven decision-making. You thrive in collaborative environments, working closely with cross-functional teams to deliver accurate and timely reporting solutions. Your innovative and strategic thinking, coupled with excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, make you an asset to Essential Energy.

In Addition To This You Will Be Skilled In

• Designing, deploying, and operating complex ICT systems.
• Managing and administering Business Intelligence tools for data visualization and dashboard development.
• Developing and optimizing database structures using Azure Data Platform components.
• Implementing security controls and ensuring data privacy and quality.
• Adapting to changing priorities and managing multiple tasks concurrently.

Why Essential Energy
We offer competitive remuneration commensurate with skills and experience and 16% superannuation.

Essential Energy provides employees with a broad range of employee benefits through our corporate partnerships with organisations such as Qantas, Optus, nib and Mildura Health Fund. You will also gain access to our Health and Wellbeing programs including fitness passport. Visit our employee benefits page for more information.

We are proud to be recognised as a
WORK180 Endorsed Employer for All Women
.
We're a business with a huge range of operational and corporate roles aimed at connecting our communities.

As a pivotal player in the energy future of NSW and the country – we cover 95% of NSW and parts of southern QLD - we are an organisation with a wider variety of roles than you may first think.

Whether you want to work remotely, in a coastal region or rurally, we will invest in you, develop you and help you shape a career in energy that will give you future opportunities you may never have realised in a sector where there is so much to explore.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Information Technology or demonstrated capability through past employment experience and/or relevant qualifications

For further information please contact
Michael Newham, Data Intelligence Manager
on

Applications close on
12 October
2025
at
11:55pm
.

Passionate people. Global thinking. Regional heart.
Building a better energy future.
Essential Energy is committed to building a culturally diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourages applicants to apply regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability.
As an organisation, our aim is to champion inclusivity in the workplace and celebrate the difference in all our employees.