About Us
The Department of Government Services (DGS) was established on 1 January 2023 to improve everyone’s experience of doing business and interacting with the Victorian government. We bring important day-to-day services together in one department to make things easy and seamless for Victorians and businesses. We are doing this by connecting and digitising our systems and platforms across state and local government as well as streamlining our corporate and procurement services.
You can find out more about our Ministers, leadership and entities here: Department of Government Services.
The Regulatory Services Division
The Regulatory Services Division oversees all portfolio regulation and compliance statutory functions and their operations. The Division comprises of Consumer Affairs Victoria and business licensing functions including the new Business and Professions Regulator.
As the Victorian regulator of the Australian Consumer Law; residential tenancies; and multiple industry sectors, the Regulatory Services division includes the Director, Consumer Affairs Victoria CAV division has a broad regulatory remit. Within its remit, the division works to prevent harm to consumers and businesses through a risk-based, intelligence-led, and outcomes focused compliance approach. Division activities strongly emphasise voluntary compliance; prevention; and careful targeting of enforcement action towards those that do most harm.
In turn, the Regulatory Services division provides consumer and renting services (such as information and advice; rent reviews; community programs); licensing and registration functions; and compliance monitoring and enforcement to help ensure a fair, safe and competitive marketplace in Victoria.
This Division also includes local government regulatory functions including local government investigation/interventions to support the Minister, the new Local Government Fair Jobs Code regulator and the Principal Councillor Conduct Registrar.
About the Role
The Senior Data Engineer is a key member of the Regulatory Insights and Systems team, responsible for designing, building, and maintaining data platforms and pipelines that power trusted analytics and regulatory intelligence across CAV and the wider group. Reporting to the Technical Lead, Regulatory Insights and Systems , the role leads complex engineering initiatives across Microsoft Fabric, Azure, and over time Databricks, ensuring regulatory, compliance, and operational datasets are reliable, secure, and ready for analytics and AI.
The position enhances CAV’s data foundations by engineering Lakehouses/Warehouses in OneLake, developing scalable ingestion and transformation pipelines, and implementing reusable data engineering patterns that integrate multiple internal and external systems. This enables high‑quality insights, dashboards, and AI‑ready data products that support policy development, regulatory strategy, compliance intelligence, operational improvement, and public reporting.
The Senior Data Engineer provides expert technical advice on data architecture, performance, and governance; and contributes to standards, CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks, and documentation that underpin the reliability of the Regulatory Data Insights function.
Working closely with the Enterprise Architect, Data Scientist, Senior Data analysts, ICT, and broader regulatory and intelligence teams, the Senior Data Engineer champions best‑practice data engineering, modern cloud patterns, and scalable platform design that strengthens the department’s analytical and AI readiness. The role also supports the future introduction of Databricks, helping ensure interoperability and consistent engineering standards across platforms.
Key Accountabilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines for batch and near real-time ingestion and transformation across internal and external data sources using Microsoft Fabric and Azure services.
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Implement and maintain Lakehouse and Warehouse solutions using standard data formats and medallion architecture to support analytics, reporting, and advanced use cases.
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Develop curated datasets and semantic models optimised for consumption, ensuring consistency, usability, and alignment with enterprise standards.
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Implement data quality, validation, monitoring, and testing practices to ensure data accuracy, availability, and reliability, including troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
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Apply data governance and security controls, including access management, data protection, and metadata practices aligned with enterprise and regulatory requirements.
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Contribute to CI/CD processes, version control, and environment management to enable consistent and reliable deployment of data platform assets.
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Collaborate with analysts, data scientists, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into data solutions, reusable components, and data products.
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Contribute to documentation, reusable engineering patterns, and continuous improvement, and support uplift of team capability through knowledge sharing and mentoring.
Mandatory requirements
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A tertiary qualification in an information technology or data‑related field and/or substantial experience in data engineering, cloud services, or enterprise data platforms are required.
This is an ongoing position. This position is only open to applicants with relevant rights to work in Australia.
For more information, please see the Position Description.
How to apply
Apply before the advertised closing date 11:59pm on Sunday, 26 July 2026. All applications should include:
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a resume; and
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a cover letter which addresses the key selection criteria (within three pages).
Other relevant information
To be eligible for appointment to this role, applicants will possess corresponding work rights for the advertised employment period. Appointment to an ongoing role is only available to an Australian/New Zealand citizen or an Australian Permanent Resident. Preferred applicants will be required to undertake pre-employment screening. DGS actively promotes diversity, inclusion and an equal opportunity workplace. We welcome applicants from all diverse backgrounds, including people with disabilities and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. All roles at DGS can be worked flexibly, however it may differ from role to role.
