28 days ago
Australia (city not specified)Senior
Responsibilities
- Develop, deploy, and continuously improve distributed big-data pipelines supporting network analysis, machine learning, data ingestion, and data fusion.
- Design, develop, test, deploy, monitor, and maintain scalable data ingestion and standardization pipelines.
- Improve platform scalability and support reliability, costs, controls, security reviews, and accreditations.
- Serve as the technical expert in client-facing meetings and translate government requirements into technical architecture.
- Collaborate with engineers, data scientists, product managers, customers, and external stakeholders.
- Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies, and practices for data pipeline development, orchestration, and deployment.
Requirements
- 8+ years of technical experience in data engineering or closely related roles.
- Experience working with or within the public sector.
- Extensive experience designing, developing, and maintaining complex data models from varied sources and schemas.
- Demonstrated experience leading the full lifecycle of large-scale data ingestion and standardization pipelines.
- Experience with cloud architecture, engineering, or administration.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with experience interacting directly with external customers and stakeholders.
- Experience or interest in sustainable software development, self-healing data workflows, data security, governance, engineering excellence, and knowledge sharing.
- Preferred qualifications include data platform management, monitoring releases and costs, infrastructure changes, mentoring engineers, trade compliance or supply chain experience, entity resolution or graph databases, ML pipeline deployment, and IRAP, Essential Eight, or other InfoSec frameworks.
Benefits
- The role is based in Australia.
- Flexibility for occasional onsite travel to the Canberra hub location.
- Altana is an equal opportunity employer.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering
About Altana
Altana builds an AI-powered network and software platform for global trade visibility and value chain management used by enterprises and governments. Its SaaS products connect importers, suppliers, logistics providers, and customs agencies to share data for compliance, classification, and supply chain risk. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York, Altana serves customers such as Maersk, Boston Scientific, L.L.Bean, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and the UK Department for Business and Trade.