Implementation Delivery Engineer, Australia

About the role

Altana is the network for trusted trade. Our AI-powered product network empowers governments and businesses to build a more resilient and secure global economy while keeping trade flowing.

The Opportunity at Altana

The Platform Operations & Compliance team is focused on integrating Altana’s products with customers to provide unique insights, business process integrations, and create customer value. We execute complex customer integrations to create and customise data pipelines for unique customer scenarios; integrate proprietary customer data to our knowledge graph while supporting reliability, release, cost and control obligations that come with operating big-data pipelines for public sector customers. The Platform Operations & Compliance team works closely with customers, as well as our internal Engineering, Machine Learning, InfoSec and Product organisations.

In this role, you will:

- Develop, deploy and continuously improve distributed, big-data pipelines powering Altana’s state of the art network analysis, ML, data ingestion and fusion capabilities

- Understand and drive forward Altana's technology to make it more scalable and to meet the evolving requirements of our customer base

- Support platform reliability, cost and controls and support customer security reviews and accreditations

- Serve as the technical expert in client-facing meetings, bridging the gap between complex government requirements and our platform's technical architecture.

- Work in a cross-functional team of engineers, data scientists, and product managers

- Evaluate and recommend new tools, technologies, and best practices for data pipeline development, orchestration and deployment

About You

You are a seasoned data engineer and technical leader with deep expertise in building and scaling data systems. You combine strong hands-on engineering skills with the ability to set technical direction, influence across teams, and elevate those around you. You are someone who proactively takes ownership of the end-to-end design and operation of data solutions and refines the systems to deliver measurable results.

- 8+ years of technical experience in data engineering or closely related roles

- Experience working with or within the public sector

- You have extensive experience across the design, development, and maintenance of complex data models from a variety of sources and schemas

- Demonstrated track record of leading the full lifecycle (Design, Development, Test, Deploy, Monitor, Maintain) of data ingestion and standardisation pipelines at scale

- A demonstrated drive for sustainable software development, self-healing data workflows, and a deep appreciation for data security and data governance

- Demonstrated experience working with the cloud, including architecting, engineering, or administering cloud solutions.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a track record of successfully interacting directly with external customers and stakeholders to scope technical work and manage expectations