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Department for Education Job reference: 646482
Location: 5000 - ADELAIDE
Job status: Long Term Contract
Eligibility: Open to Everyone
Why work with us: Every child and young person deserves a great education.
We have a strategy that aims to unlock every child's potential now and into the future, one that in partnership with learners, students, parents, and the wider South Australian community will build a world-leading public education system.
One that is equitable and prioritises learning and wellbeing.
Together we will make our education system the best it can be.
When our children and young people thrive, so do our communities and our state.
About the role: The purpose of the System Performance Division is to leverage data as a strategic asset to improve educational outcomes.
We do this by effectively curating, managing, and analysing data, providing advice and insight to support evidence-informed practices, and fostering a data literate culture.
System Performance is responsible for providing data analytics and business intelligence services to the Department for Education, and leads data governance.
The Data Operations and Service directorate is responsible for ingesting, storing, organising, and managing data held in the Department's data warehouses/repositories.
It is the engine room of System Performance, ensuring that data is clean, high quality, usable and available.
The team is also responsible for liaising with customers to assess and prioritise their requirements, and leading data governance operations for the Department.
Data Operations and Service manages the full range of data life cycle functions, including business analysis, data engineering, product development, and testing.
The Data Support Engineer contributes to data engineering projects by assisting with building a strong foundation in data processing, pipeline development, and data management within a Microsoft cloud environment alongside Databricks.
Qualifications: Essential: Nil
Desirable: A tertiary qualification in IT, Computer Science, Data Science or related field and certifications in Databases, Data Warehousing, Power BI or similar.
Special conditions: The successful applicant is required to gain a Department for Human Services (DHS) working with children check (WWCC) prior to being employed which is required to be renewed every five years before expiry.
The incumbent will be required to undertake RRHAN –EC (Responding to Risks of Harm, Abuse and Neglect - Education Care) Facilitator Lead (Masterclass) extended course or the online (Fundamentals) course which will be required to be updated every three years.
For all other Special Conditions please refer to the attached Position Description.
Remuneration: ASO3 $67,589 - $72,033 per annum (1.0 FTE) + superannuation (11.5%) and leave loading.
Enquiries: Enquiries can be directed to David Good, Principal Data Engineer, via email: ******
Application Instructions: Applications should be made through the IWorkForSA website.
Applicants are required to submit a CV, the Application Cover Sheet, Employment Declaration, and a cover letter addressing the key competencies in the attached position description.
People of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent and/or those who have a disability are strongly encouraged to apply.
Additional note: This is a full-time contract role (1.0 FTE), initial 2-year term contract.
Applications close: 28/01/2025 11:30 PM
Attachments:
- Application Cover Sheet - PSAct.pdf
- How to Apply PS Act guidelines.pdf
- Position Description - ASO3 Data Support Engineer.pdf
- VL233 Pre-employment declaration.pdf
Flexibility Statement:
The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time.
Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.
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