About Informatech
Informatech are a Canberra based ICT consultancy, specialising in Testing, Infrastructure, Project Delivery and Security, with over 200 staff currently and growing rapidly. On the back of an excellent year, we came in at number 22 on the Australian Financial Review (AFR) Fastest 100 growing companies List, and the growth is continuing upwards.
Role Overview
We are seeking a Canberra based, skilled Data Engineer with a minimum NV2 Security Clearance to join a high-performing team delivering scalable, production‐grade data solutions using Palantir Foundry.
This role is ideal for a mid‐level engineer who enjoys building strong data pipelines, solving complex data challenges, and working closely with senior engineers, analysts, and operational users to deliver impactful outcomes.
As a Data Engineer, you will build and maintain production data pipelines within Palantir Foundry, supporting ingestion, transformation, modelling, and Ontology development. You will own defined workstreams end‐to‐end while collaborating with senior engineers on architecture and complex technical decisions.
You will also support junior engineers through pairing and code reviews while contributing to engineering standards and best practices.
Key Responsibilities
* Build and maintain scalable Foundry data pipelines from raw ingestion through to curated datasets and Ontology objects
* Develop Ontology objects, links, and actions aligned to solution specifications
* Write, optimise, and review PySpark transformations for performance and cost efficiency
* Support and mentor junior engineers through collaboration and code reviews
* Investigate and resolve pipeline failures and participate in on‐call support rotations
* Contribute to internal engineering standards, patterns, and documentation
* Partner with analysts and operational stakeholders to develop and improve Workshop tooling
Required Experience
* Minimum 1 year building production pipelines in Palantir Foundry (Code Repositories, Pipeline Builder, Ontology, Workshop)
* PySpark, including transformations, partitioning, shuffle/broadcast operations, and performance optimisation
* Foundry Jupyter Notebooks
* Git‐based workflows via Foundry global branching
* Foundry Health Checks and data quality monitoring
* 3–5 years' experience in Data Engineering or Analytics Engineering
* Solid understanding of dimensional modelling (Kimball or equivalent)
* Advanced SQL skills across analytical workloads
* Ability to independently manage workstreams and challenge unclear requirements constructively
Desirable Experience
* Experience designing Ontologies in Foundry
* Exposure to Workshop, Slate, or Quiver application development
* Experience with streaming technologies such as Kafka or Foundry Streaming
* Familiarity with testing and data quality frameworks similar to dbt or Great Expectations
Benefits and Perks of working for Informatech
* Contract or Permanent Opportunity available
* Professional Development Support – formalised training and education budgets written into your contract + training leave accrued as a formal entitlement (for perm employees)
* No such thing as unpaid overtime. You will be paid for every hour you work.
* Health & Wellbeing Kit - a $500/year allowance for you to spent on physical and/or mental health and wellbeing - gym membership, massages, bikes - whatever you want!
* Bi‐Annual Social Events including a big end of year function.
* Security Clearance Maintenance and upgrades
* Supportive Management Team
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