At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and develop innovative data platforms and applications using Microsoft Fabric and Azure.
- Company: Join a leading tech firm in Melbourne with a focus on cutting-edge solutions.
- Benefits: Enjoy a competitive salary, health perks, and opportunities for remote work.
- Other info: Collaborative environment with strong career growth potential and mentorship opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by transforming data into actionable insights and driving business success.
- Qualifications: Experience with Microsoft Fabric, Azure services, and full-stack development is essential.
The predicted salary is between 121500 - 148500 $ per year.
Location: Melbourne, VIC (with travel to project sites as required)
Employment Type: Full-time, permanent
1. Position Purpose
The Senior Solution Engineer is responsible for the ongoing design, development and operation of core data and custom-built application platforms, with primary ownership of the Microsoft Fabric data platform, the Morpheus labour cost intelligence application and other system-to-system integrations. This is a hands-on, technically deep role spanning data engineering, cloud infrastructure, system integration and full-stack application development, and is central to the organisation's ability to automate business processes and turn operational and workforce data into decision-ready insight.
2. Key Responsibilities
2.1 Data Platform (Microsoft Fabric)
- Design, build and maintain data ingestion pipelines from source systems such as Microsoft Entra, SharePoint Lists, Excel workbooks and third-party SaaS platforms.
- Implement and maintain appropriate security and access controls across Fabric SQL and Power BI to ensure fit-for-purpose data governance.
- Troubleshoot and optimise data pipelines for reliability, performance and cost.
- Own the ongoing development of Morpheus, a labour cost intelligence and scenario modelling platform built on a React/Vite frontend, Python Azure Functions backend, and Azure SQL / Fabric SQL DB.
- Maintain and extend appropriate security controls for the application.
- Design and deliver new features in line with the product roadmap co-created with business stakeholders.
- Manage Azure infrastructure supporting Morpheus, monitoring cost, performance and reliability.
- Maintain CI/CD practices for the codebase.
2.3 Architecture and Design
- Partner with the CIO to make key architecture and design decisions in relation to Fabric, Morpheus and system integration in general.
- Produce clear technical documentation, architecture and design decisions to support governance and stakeholder decision-making.
2.4 Stakeholder Engagement
- Act as the key technical point of contact for data platform and Morpheus-related matters across the business.
- Translate business and operational requirements into technical solutions, balancing pragmatism with long-term platform sustainability.
- Support and upskill other staff engaging with the platforms, including light mentoring where appropriate.
3. Key Relationships
3.1 Internal
- Business unit and project leaders — gathering requirements and driving adoption of Fabric and Morpheus to create value for the business.
- Finance, payroll and admin teams — coordination of data input / ingestion and reporting requirements.
3.2 External
- Microsoft and related managed services provider — platform relationship covering Azure, Fabric, and Entra.
- Software vendors — initial integration and ongoing maintenance.
- Specialist vendors — engaged from time to time to support delivery of specific technical initiatives.
4. Key Selection Criteria
- Demonstrated experience with Microsoft Fabric or equivalent modern data platform technologies, including lakehouse/medallion architecture.
- Strong hands-on experience with Azure cloud services, including Azure Functions, Azure SQL, and Infrastructure-as-Code.
- Full-stack development experience, ideally including React and Python.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Proficiency in AI-assisted / agentic software engineering.
- Proficiency in secure application development and user access controls.
- Excellent stakeholder communication skills, with the ability to work directly with senior leadership.
- Experience in the construction, contracting or industrial/data centre sectors.
- Understanding of Australian compliance frameworks relevant to IT and data.
5. What Success Looks Like
The Fabric data platform is reliable, well-governed and continues to expand to bring new operational data sources online, to enable Morpheus and other reporting / analytics systems. Morpheus continues to evolve as a trusted source of labour cost intelligence, construction project productivity and other performance metrics for the business, with a healthy feature roadmap and stable operations. The CIO has a capable technical partner who can own delivery end-to-end and provide sound advice on data, application and integration decisions.
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