Lead Data Engineer

Monash Health exists to reimagine care, so that people can live their best lives. 

We provide safe and equitable care, for every stage of life, delivered with world-leading expertise and over 175 years of experience. 

As a leading academic health service, we're committed to providing tomorrow's care today by integrating research, teaching and training into everyday practice. 

Our team of 24,000 people are full hearted, open minded and all in. Together, we provide more than 250 integrated services for every stage of life at over 50 locations and in the community across south-east Melbourne, Victoria, serving 1.2 million residents in the South Metro Local Health Service Network.

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Lead Data Engineer

• Care, reimagined

• Build modern data and AI capabilities that support better healthcare

• Contribute to a greenfield development platform using contemporary technologies

Help Shape the Future of Digital Healthcare

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced data engineering professional to help build a new development platform designed to address real clinical and operational challenges using modern data technologies and artificial intelligence.

Working within a small, innovative and driven team, you will contribute to foundational infrastructure and develop trusted data assets and digital products that support frontline staff and patients. You will work in a greenfield environment where you can influence technical direction, establish strong engineering practices and help shape how data and AI are used across healthcare delivery. 

Make a Difference Through Data and AI

About the Role

We are seeking a Lead Data Engineer to join our Innovation, Platforms and Partnerships team and help build a greenfield development platform using modern data technologies and AI.

You will design, build and operate secure, enterprise-grade data pipelines and trusted data assets that support clinical and operational teams. Working within a small, innovative team, you will also provide technical leadership across data architecture, modelling, quality, governance and the responsible use of AI.

You will:

• design and operate resilient data pipelines using modern engineering and CI/CD practices

• contribute to modern data, API management and AI platforms

• establish data architecture, modelling and quality standards

• use AI and large language models to extract and evaluate information

• implement appropriate privacy, security and data governance controls

• lead technical discussions and collaborate with delivery and technical teams.

About you

We are looking for an experienced and collaborative data engineer with:

• experience designing modern lakehouse architectures and resilient ETL/ELT pipelines

• strong Python, SQL, NoSQL and data warehousing skills

• cloud platform experience, preferably Microsoft Azure and Fabric

• experience with CI/CD, automated testing and production monitoring

• experience extracting information from unstructured data and using large language models

• a strong understanding of data privacy, security and governance

• the ability to lead technical discussions and work effectively with multidisciplinary teams.

Experience with dbt, Spark, AI agents, LLMOps, clinical terminology, FHIR or healthcare and other regulated environments will be highly regarded. Relevant tertiary qualifications and/or significant industry experience are required.

Why Join Monash Health?

This is an opportunity to apply your data engineering expertise to meaningful healthcare challenges and contribute to digital solutions that can support clinicians, patients and operational teams.

You will join a small, innovative team and work in a greenfield environment where you can help establish foundational platforms, influence architecture and engineering practices, and bring new data and AI-enabled ideas to life.

At Monash Health, you will:

• contribute to data and AI solutions with meaningful clinical and operational impact

• help shape a modern, greenfield development platform

• work with contemporary cloud, data and artificial intelligence technologies

• collaborate with experienced delivery, technical and healthcare professionals

• influence data architecture, modelling, engineering and quality practices

• contribute to the responsible and secure use of sensitive healthcare data.

Our Culture and Values 

At Monash Health, our people are at the heart of everything we do. Our culture is inclusive, supportive and future-focused, underpinned by clear values and a commitment to continuous improvement. 

Our teams play a critical role in bringing our new strategy to life, challenging traditional approaches, embracing innovation, and ensuring every appointment reflects our commitment to equity, transparency and excellence. 

You’ll be encouraged to share ideas, contribute to improvement initiatives, and grow alongside experienced professionals who are passionate about what they do. 

We are Full Hearted, Open Minded and All In, enabling excellent service delivery and a positive candidate and employee experience every time. 

We recognise the value of equal employment opportunity. We are committed to patient safety, promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace and to Child Safe Standards.