Data Engineer

Employment Type

Permanent

Closing Date

24 June 2025 11:59pm

Job Title

Data Engineer

Job Summary

As the IT Domain Specialist, your role is key in improving the stability and reliability of our cloud offerings and solutions to ensure continuity of service for our customers. You will be responsible for supporting the end-to-end development of key cloud platform and solutions which includes technical design, integration requirements, delivery and lifecycle management.

You are a specialist across and/or within a technology domain and viewed as the go-to person in the business to provide technical support in the development and delivery of cloud infrastructure platforms and solutions.

Job Description

Who We Are

We're an iconic Aussie brand with a global footprint. Our purpose is to build a connected future so everyone can thrive. We're all about providing the best experience and delivering the best tech on the best network.

This includes making Telstra the place you want to work. For you, that means a having career that grows with you and working with a team powered by human connection that prioritises wellbeing and choice.

Focus of the Role
As a Data Engineer, you will take responsibility for ensuring all requests from the business are developed and delivered in the most optimal and timely way considering operational support in DevOps model.  You will participate in and/or be responsible for design, build and deployment of ETL/ELT data pipelines within big data ecosystems such as Cloudera.

What We Offer

Performance-related pay
Access to thousands of learning programs so you can level-up
Global presence across 22 countries; opportunities to work where we do business.

Other exciting applicable country-specific benefits to be shared as you progress

 What You’ll Do

Product & Technology - Software Engineering & IT develops and maintains Telstra's software and IT systems, working on some really cutting-edge technologies.

• Implementing Data security and access control compliant to Telstra Security Standards
• Ability to review vendor designs and recommended solutions based on industry best practises
• Understand overall business operations and develops innovative solutions to help improve productivity
• Ability to understand and design provisioning solutions at Telstra and how Data lakes interact with other source systems.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills needed to support enterprise high availability full stack applications. Reduce ageing tickets and provide proactive problem management.
• Monitor process of software configuration/development/testing to assure quality deliverable.
• Ensure standards of QA are being met
• Review deliverables to verify that they meet client and contract expectations; Implement and enforce high standards for quality deliverables
• Analyses performance and capacity issues of the highest complexity with full stack application.
• Assists leadership with development and management of new application capabilities to improve productivity
• Provide training and educate other team members around core capabilities and helps them deliver high quality solutions and deliverables/documentation
• Self-Motivator to perform Design / Develop user requirements, test and deploy the changes into production

About You

Degree level IT qualifications in Software or Systems Engineering.

3-7 years’ experience in Analysis, Design, and Development in the fields of Business Intelligence, Databases and Web-based Applications consulting or technical lead / team lead role.

• Experience in Alteryx Workflow development and Data Visualization development using Tableau to create complex, intuitive dashboards.
• Experience with Hortonworks Data Flow (HDF) this includes NiFi and Kafka experience with Cloudera Edge
• Big Data & Data Lake Experience Cloudera Hadoop with project implementation experience Data Analytics experience Data Analyst and Data Science exposure
• Exposure to various data management architectures like data warehouse, data lake and data hub, and supporting processes like data integration, data modeling.
• Working experience with large, heterogeneous datasets in building and optimizing data pipelines, pipeline architectures and integrated datasets using data integration technologies
• Experience in supporting operations and knowledge of standard operation procedures: OS Patches, Security Scan, Log Onboarding, Agent Onboarding, Log Extraction etc.
• Development and deployment and scaling of containerised applications with Docker preferred.
• A good understanding of enterprise application integration, including SOA, ESB, EAI, ETL environments and an understanding of integration considerations such as process orchestration, customer data integration and master data management
• A good understanding of the security processes, standards & issues involved in multi-tier, multi-tenant web applications
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

We're amongst the top 2% of companies globally in the CDP Global Climate Change Index 2023, being awarded an 'A' rating. If you want to work for a company that cares about sustainability, we want to hear from you.

When you join our team, you become part of a welcoming and inclusive community where everyone is respected, valued and celebrated. We actively seek individuals from various backgrounds, ethnicities, genders and abilities because we know that diversity not only strengthens our team but also enriches our work. We have zero tolerance for harassment of any kind, and we prioritise creating a workplace culture where everyone is safe and can thrive. 

As part of the hiring process, all identified candidates will undergo a background check, and the results will play a role in the final decision regarding your application.

We work flexibly at Telstra. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you. When you apply, you can share your pronouns and / or any reasonable adjustments needed to take part equitably during the recruitment process.

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