Description
We currently have an exciting fixed term contract opportunity for a Strategic Analytics Operations Senior Specialist to join our team. This role can be based anywhere within our operational footprint.
The Strategic Analytics Operations Senior Specialist is responsible for supporting the delivery of trusted, scalable, and high‑performing analytics capabilities across Essential Energy's strategic platforms. The role applies deep technical expertise to ensure the integrity, reliability and continuous improvement of analytical models, data pipelines and platform processes.
Working closely with analytics, forecasting and ICT teams, the role plays a critical part in translating complex analytical outputs into robust, secure, and operational operationally‑ready solutions that drive business value and support enterprise decision‑making.
This position requires strong data and software engineering fundamentals, exceptional problem‑solving skills, and the ability to work collaboratively across technical and business teams to support the operationalisation of models, workflows, and analytical products.
A strong understanding of distributed data environments, monitoring systems, and automation frameworks is essential, along with a proactive approach to improving platform performance, data quality, and user experience.
Key Responsibilities
* Design, build and maintain automated workflows and data pipelines across strategic analytics platforms.
* Develop and implement monitoring, alerting and logging systems to ensure operational reliability and visibility.
* Apply software engineering principles such as CI/CD, automated testing, and version control to support model deployment and lifecycle governance.
* Provide technical support to users on model behaviour, data lineage and platform processes.
* Collaborate with analytics and forecasting teams to translate analytical models into production‑ready solutions.
* Ensure secure, reliable operation of data pipelines and analytics processes within corporate environments.
* Support continuous improvement activities relating to performance, data quality, platform stability and user experience.
* Maintain comprehensive documentation and repositories to uphold transparency, version control and traceability of operational models.
* Engage with internal and external stakeholders to understand requirements, support adoption of analytics capabilities, and enable business outcomes.
* Demonstrate behaviours that promote respect, equity, diversity and inclusion, aligned with the Code of Conduct and corporate policies.
About You
* Demonstrated experience in a data engineering, software engineering or similar role focused on operationalising data processes.
* Proven experience with Python and SQL, including developing and optimising scripts and queries.
* Experience building and maintaining data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes in distributed computing environments.
* Strong experience with Azure cloud data platforms (e.g., Databricks, Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Secrets).
* Experience developing monitoring, logging and alerting for production systems.
* Strong systems‑thinking approach to ensuring reliability, consistency and performance.
* Excellent problem‑solving and analytical skills, with the ability to diagnose complex data workflow issues.
* Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
* Ability to translate analytical requirements into robust, scalable technical solutions.
Required Qualifications
* Bachelor Degree in Software Engineering, Data Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
Desirable
* Experience with orchestration tools such as Databricks Workflows or Airflow.
* Azure cloud platform certification (e.g., Azure Data Engineer Associate).
* Experience with MLOps or DataOps principles and tools.
Why Essential Energy
Essential Energy employees benefit from a wide range of partnerships, programs and wellbeing initiatives, including Fitness Passport, health fund options and corporate offers across travel, technology and lifestyle brands. Learn more on our employee benefits page.
We are proud to be recognised as a WORK180 Endorsed Employer for All Women.
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Applications close on Tuesday 24 February 2026 at 11:55pm AEST.
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