1 Senior Data Engineer
Tender Overview
About this tender
This Tender is invited by the Issuer. Overview The Department of Health, Disability and Ageing's Benefits Integrity Division (BID) is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to support the delivery of the BID Analytics Project and contribute to the development of modern data platforms that strengthen the integrity of Australia's health payments system. Purpose Working within the Risk Analytics Section, the Data Engineer will support the implementation of the BID Analytical Needs Implementation Roadmap, which aims to optimise data insights, reduce inefficiencies and consolidate analytical capabilities currently distributed across multiple platforms. The Role The role includes: Designing, building and maintaining data pipelines, integration frameworks and cloud-based data solutions supporting the collection, transformation, storage and delivery of data from sources including the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS), Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) and other health-related datasets Ensuring data is reliable, secure and accessible to support analytics, reporting, compliance and operational decision-making Working closely with business and technical stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable data solutions Integrating diverse data sources and improving data quality and accessibility Collaborating with data scientists, analysts and operational teams to enable advanced analytics, reporting and risk detection capabilities across the Division Applying contemporary data engineering practices, automation and cloud technologies to improve access to trusted data and reduce manual effort Supporting the Division's ability to identify, prevent and respond to integrity risks across Australia's health payments system
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