Your contribution and accountabilities:
● Develop and maintain the ECQ's database standards, policies, and procedures to ensure consistency, security, and compliance with relevant legislation, regulatory requirements, and organisational objectives.
● Contribute to the design, development, and testing of the ECQ's data systems and applications, ensuring reliability, accuracy, and alignment with electoral and organisational priorities.
● Monitor and manage database performance and availability, including proactively addressing incidents and resolving problems to maintain high levels of service and responsiveness across the ECQ's systems.
● Assist in administering database objects and resources to ensure optimal utilisation, stability, and performance across the ECQ's data environments, supporting scalable and efficient operations.
● Develop and maintain monitoring tools and event triggers to proactively identify and alert on issues impacting data performance, integrity, or security.
● Coordinate regular database maintenance activities, including performance tuning, indexing, and optimisation to support the ECQ's operational readiness and responsiveness, especially during election periods.
● Analyse and monitor database usage metrics, including transaction volumes, response times, and concurrency levels, to ensure efficient performance and inform strategic capacity planning.
● Coordinate and enforce database security frameworks, ensuring compliance with the ECQ's cybersecurity standards, audit requirements, and data protection obligations.
● Maintain database security risks, including identified, reporting and manage risks through identifying audit trails, supporting forensic investigations, and ensuring data integrity across all of the ECQ systems.
● Manage and maintain the ECQ's data backup, archiving, and storage strategies, ensuring system reliability, recoverability, and business continuity through the timely application of patches and upgrades to relevant platforms.
● Contribute to team cohesiveness, wellbeing, and capability through participation in establishing a positive environment, respectful of the views of others across the Digital Technologies unit and broader ECQ workforce.
● Consistently display the ECQ and Queensland Government values, ensuring that these are upheld at all levels of the organisation.
Applications to remain current for 12 months.Job Ad Reference: QLD/659069/25Closing Date: Friday, 26 September 2025