Data Engineer

A career at ASIC will broaden and deepen your already accomplished knowledge, skills and abilities. By working on cutting edge issues, you'll make a difference to our goals, Australia's economic reputation and wellbeing and your own career aspirations

ASIC's Data Engineering team is seeking a talented Data Engineer to join their team. The successful candidate will support data delivery and data infrastructure across the organisation.

Sydney or Melbourne locations

24 month fixed term position

Salary from $136,204 to $149,295 (depending on experience) + 15.4 % superannuation

Applications close at 11:59pm AEST, Monday 29 June 2026

The team

Information Technology Services delivers a broad suite of IT capabilities and support to ASIC. We are currently driving major technology initiatives that will accelerate our transformation across key areas including virtualisation, data analytics, mobility, and cloud. The Data Engineering team underpins these efforts by providing essential services to our primary stakeholder, the Data & Analytics Office.

The role

As a Data Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in enabling ASIC's data-driven operations. Your responsibilities will include designing and maintaining robust data ingestion pipelines, managing secure and efficient data transfers into ASIC's systems, and ensuring timely and accurate delivery of data to support core business functions. This role is critical to empowering analytics, enhancing operational decision-making, and supporting the broader technology transformation underway at ASIC.

More specifically, you will:

Provide ongoing support for data infrastructure, including the cloud platform, data lake, data marts, and dashboards.

Monitor data platform performance and recommend infrastructure enhancements to maintain optimal benchmarks.

Design and implement ETL pipelines using CI/CD methodologies.

Contribute to the development and deployment of solution designs and big data platform strategies across all environments (development, integration, pre-production, production, and support).

Communicate technical updates and project priorities to leadership, including timelines, budgets, and data technology considerations.

Investigate and resolve data-related incidents promptly.

About you

The ideal candidate for this role is a motivated and technically capable Data Engineer who is eager to grow and contribute to ASIC's evolving data landscape. You'll bring hands-on experience with data pipelines, cloud platforms and ETL processes, along with a solid understanding of data infrastructure and performance monitoring. This role is ideal for someone ready to take the next step in their data engineering career while contributing to impactful data and technology transformation projects.

In addition, you will have:

Tertiary qualifications in a quantitative discipline such as Statistics, Mathematics, Information Technology, Mechatronic or a related discipline.

Significant experience in data management across cloud platforms, data lakes, warehousing, analytics, and business intelligence.

Proficient with BI and analytics tools such as Databricks, SQL Server, Power BI, R, and Python.

Solid understanding of data warehousing, big data architecture, data streaming, and virtualisation.

Hands-on experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP.

Strong development skills in Python and SQL.

Experience working within Agile delivery environments.

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to resolve complex stakeholder queries.

An existing Australian Government security clearance (Baseline/NV1) is highly desirable, however candidates without a current clearance will also be considered.

Click `apply' to start your application. Applications close at 11:59pm AEDT, Monday 29 June 2026.

About ASIC

ASIC's remit is one of the broadest of regulators across the world. ASIC regulates corporations, markets, financial services and consumer credit and monitors and promotes market integrity and consumer protection in the Australian financial system. Through our enforcement work, we hold to account those who contravene the law, working to achieve strong outcomes that address the greatest consumer and investor harms.

We offer a range of employee benefits including:

Attractive superannuation

Additional leave entitlements

50/50 hybrid work-from home model

Flexible work arrangements

Assistance for study and professional development

Click here to view ASIC's salary and benefits guide.

To about ASIC, you can visit our website or review our Corporate Plan.

To work with us, you need to be an Australian citizen and be prepared to complete an ASIC Suitability and Baseline Assessment.