At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and build scalable data pipelines while optimising data solutions for critical business operations.
- Company: Join Churches of Christ, a leading not-for-profit organisation with a welcoming culture.
- Benefits: Enjoy 5 weeks annual leave, flexible work arrangements, and tax-free salary packaging.
- Other info: Collaborative team environment with opportunities for career growth and development.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in data engineering while supporting community services across Australia.
- Qualifications: Tertiary qualifications in Computer Science or Data Engineering and strong data engineering experience.
The predicted salary is between 123750 - 151250 $ per year.
- Work in an inclusive, down to earth & welcoming culture
- Free parking, onsite cafe, salary packaging up to $18,549 tax-free
- Hybrid role – 3 days at our Kenmore Head Office + 2 days WFH
Our team is expanding to support a major uplift in our data platforms, architecture, and analytics capabilities. We are seeking an experienced
Data Engineer to join our
Data & Development team and deliver high‑quality, scalable data solutions that underpin critical business operations, insights, and reporting.
This is a key project‑based role where you will design, build, and optimise complex data pipelines, support cloud‑based data engineering initiatives, and play a central part in our modern data transformation.
About you
You will develop and maintain robust, high‑performance data infrastructure across Azure and Databricks environments.
Working closely with business and technical stakeholders, you will enable reliable data flows, enhanced data quality, and improved analytics capability across our organisation.
You will support project delivery from design through to implementation, ensuring our data platforms are scalable, well‑governed, and built for long‑term success.
What You Will Do
- Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and integration across multiple systems.
- Integrate data from clinical, financial, and care platforms to support organisational insights.
- Develop and support data ingestion from cloud and on‑premises sources including SQL and REST API sources using Python notebooks.
- Develop and support ETL/ELT workflows using Databricks Lakeflow pipelines.
- Contribute to data modelling for analytics, operational reporting, and machine‑learning use cases.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand data requirements and deliver fit‑for‑purpose data solutions.
- Monitor, test, and troubleshoot data processes to ensure reliability and integrity of critical datasets.
- Optimise data storage, compute performance, and cost‑efficiency across cloud environments.
- Maintain compliance with privacy, security, and governance standards.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of data engineering practices, documentation, and methodologies.
What You Will Bring
- Tertiary qualifications in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related field.
- Strong experience in data engineering, including distributed systems and cloud data architecture.
- Hands‑on experience with Azure Databricks using Unity Catalogue, Lakeflow Connect, Lakeflow Jobs and Pipelines, Databricks SQL, AI/BI Dashboards, AI/BI Genie, Unity Catalogue Business Semantics, and Databricks Asset Bundles.
- Hands‑on experience with Azure Dev Ops for sprint and task management, as well as Dev Ops CI/CD deployment pipelines.
- Proficiency in Python, SQL, and Spark.
- Strong understanding of dimensional data modelling (Kimball/star-schema) and dimensional patterns (e. g.
SCD2, Late Arriving Dimensions), metadata management, governance, and data‑quality practices.
- Excellent problem‑solving skills and the ability to manage competing priorities across project delivery.
- Effective communication and stakeholder‑engagement skills, with the ability to work across business and technical teams.
- Ability to obtain a National Police Check, Blue Card, and LCS screening.
- Exposure to aged care, healthcare, or not‑for‑profit environments (ideal but not essential).
- Experience integrating data from operational, clinical, or financial systems, including: Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM, Zavanti, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations, Aurion, Epicor SLS, UKG Workforce Pro, Autumn Care, Risk Man, Sandwai, Netsmart my Evolv (highly regarded)
About Us
Churches of Christ is one of Australia’s largest and most diverse not‑for‑profit organisations, delivering a range of care and community services across Residential Aged Care, Home Care and Retirement Living, Foster and Kinship Care and Housing Support for over 140 years.
- Why Join Us
- Transformative leadership and a high performing team culture.
- Opportunities for career development, stretch assignments and progression.
- A growing national not-for-profit organisation with purpose and community impact.
- 5 weeks annual leave & flexible working arrangements.
- Not for profit salary packaging up to $18,549 tax‑free.
- Work in an inclusive, down to earth & welcoming culture.
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Data Engineer employer: Churches of Christ in Queensland
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Contact Details:
Churches of Christ in Queensland Recruitment Team
