The key duties of the position include:
The Role
Reporting to the APS 6 Health Data Engineer, the APS 5 Health Data Engineer will play a key role in shaping and modelling data as it enters the Health Knowledge Management (HKM) System. They will help transform this data through the layers of One Defence Data (1DD), ensuring it becomes accessible, reliable and ready for analysis, reporting, and visualisation.
The APS 5 Health Data Engineer will be primarily responsible for identifying and performing analytical work to define, structure, and resolve complex data engineering challenges involving health data and its connections to broader Defence data sources. They will also design, build, maintain and deploy data pipelines, analytical environments, models and data stores that enable the transformation, integration, analysis and movement of data and metadata across diverse sources—empowering others to access, understand and utilise high quality data.
About our Team
Joint Health Command (JHC) makes a direct contribution to operational capability of the Australian Defence Force through the delivery of reliable, resilient, affordable and best practice health services. The Health Data Management Team (HDM) supports these activities by enabling data driven decision making at all levels of the organisation through report development and insight generation, utilising data from Defence's electronic health record and other linked sources. The HDM is responsible for: health data stewardship including applying legislative frameworks and best practice standards relating to data collection, storage, use and security; and governance of the health information domain including the systems for collecting storing, and managing data; and data quality and assurance.
Our Ideal Candidate
Our ideal candidate will have:
* Experience in working with large health data sets and bringing them together into a common platform;
* Developer or end user experience with reporting tools such as Power BI, Cognos, Tableau, Cloudera CDB or similar;
* Skills in working with stakeholders in the preparation of health data for ingesting, reporting, analysis and visualisation.
Eligibility
Security Clearance:
Applicants must be able to obtain and maintain a security clearance at “Negative Vetting Level 1”.
Getting to know the Department of Defence
The Department of Defence employs around 18,000 Australian Public Service (APS) employees. Defence APS employees work in a wide variety of critical roles, Australia wide, enabling our three services Navy, Army and Air Force, to do their job. Defence has a range of Australian Public Service (APS) career opportunities that offer interesting, challenging, and unique work. Our workforce includes administrative support, accountants, intelligence analysts, engineers, policy advisors, graphic designers, lawyers, social workers, IT specialists and contract managers to name a few. We offer a rewarding career that includes professional development, work-life balance, recognition, a flexible and supportive work environment and a diverse workforce. To find out more about a career with Defence please visit https://www.defence.gov.au/jobs-careers