Help us deliver like never before We're looking for a Senior Data Technology Specialist to join our diverse, talented and innovative digital technology team who together are helping our customers and communities build a better future. Together, we design, build and maintain products, services and experiences that Australians love and trust, while delivering a sustainable future for Australia Post, and you could be part of that.
We're empowered to deliver for our teams and to delight our customers. We provide an inclusive and supportive environment that nurtures talented people, trusts our teams to deliver their best, and leverages modern work practices and technologies. It's an unexpectedly dynamic and collaborative culture that feels more like a start-up than a 213-year-old icon.
What you'll deliver with us The Senior Data Technology Specialist will manage and operate our enterprise data and analytics technology platforms, Google Cloud and Infrastructure, NEO4J, DataIku, Looker, Profisee, ensuring they are maintained to deliver efficient and effective services for our enterprise data community, all aligned towards delivering Australia Post's strategic goals of Supporting our People, Delighting our Communities & Customers, and Creating a Sustainable Future. You will also look to operationalise these platforms to enable service automation and optimisation, including cloud Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and monitoring.
As a technology specialist, this role will identify and implement best-practice application administration and service operation, with a focus on increasing the reliability, availability, accessibility, currency, and security of our enterprise data tools; prioritising cloud-first, self-service enablement. Maintaining our most critical data analytics infrastructure, this role will help to deliver cost-effective, impactful data technology services that help to unlock data solutions for our enterprise. Delivering leading-edge capability for machine learning, graph optimisation, cloud data engineering, business analytics and visualisation.
You'll also Ensure our enabling data platforms are available, accessible, secure, and up to date, for use by the data community. Work on initiatives that allow our data platforms to be supported to deliver efficient user self-service, and reduce the barriers for responsible data innovation across our enterprise. Collaborate with data platform users to understand how best to leverage the tools, providing them with training, documentation, workshops and efficient service support. Partner with data technology vendors to bring the latest platform features and capability into Australia Post. Provide feedback, manage vendor tickets and lead vendor engagement on behalf of platform users. Ensure our data platforms enable good data governance, and are deployed and configured to ensure application security, and data loss prevention. Proactively manage data technology life-cycle roadmaps, ensuring platforms meet our business' current and future needs. Ensure data technology change is managed to consider the full cost of change, and delivering a clear ROI. Proactively monitor and manage data platform usage, to ensure support, infrastructure and licensing costs meet expected targets. Educate and monitor users to leverage data platforms in a cost-efficient manner, avoiding unnecessary and excessive consumption of platform resources. Support effective self-service user administration, and the use of automation for application management and servicing, reducing the cost to maintain and support data platforms. About you We are looking for someone who nurtures talent across the enterprise and in the community. Seeking out interested and aspiring data practitioners and helps to build a strong and diverse pool of future practitioners. You will be able to build strong relationships with customers, business partners, and peers. Internally you will be in partnership with Data Engineering, Data Solutions, Engineering, Security, Network, Architecture and other technical teams. Understanding of machine learning technology industry advances as well as a good grasp of enterprise/government data technology initiatives is advantageous in this role.
You'll also need Experience using Google Cloud Platform or other equivalent cloud platform to provision Data platforms using Infrastructure as Code. Expertise in general Infrastructure, networks, authentication, and cloud ops and build. Background in supporting productionised, scaled, maintained, and monitored data models. Experience with software engineering dev-ops practices supporting enterprise production standards. Proven ability in participating in data governance, data architecture and data strategy for very large complex enterprises. Knowledge of object-oriented language paradigms, knowledge management processes and software engineering skills. Some understanding of SQL (BigQuery), database optimisation, scripting and ETL approaches. Familiarity with data orchestration, workflow pipeline engineering technologies, GIT and Terraform. Knowledge of code versioning, collaboration, testing, reliability, and accessibility, technologies and standards. Technology Cloud Certification is advantageous. We're delivering together At Australia Post, we acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we operate, live and gather as employees.
We believe our business should reflect the diverse communities we operate in and are proud to be an inclusive workplace for people from all walks of life. We encourage applications from people of all ages, genders and backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, People with Disability, LGBTQIA+ and Refugees. We are one of the largest organisations in Australia to successfully achieve Disability Confident Recruiter status. We are committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process and workplace for those living with a disability and are committed to reviewing and removing bias in our processes to create a gender-equitable recruitment experience and workplace. If you have any questions about accessibility, please contact our Diversity & Inclusion team on
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