- Permanent Opportunity
- Based in Leederville
Where can water take you?
Advancing your career will advance our community too.
Water is essential for our future. In each and every Water Corporation role, you’ll have the chance to develop a career, and help the community. With a diverse mix of roles, locations and opportunities across Western Australia, we seek people who want to make a change for the better. Fresh faces wanted.
About the role:
As a senior technical specialist in the Digital Transformation Group, responsible for the design, implementation, quality assurance and delivery of production-grade data pipelines, big data and IoT processes and machine learning algorithms spanning the Water Corporation enterprise. You are a member of a product-oriented multi-disciplinary Agile team including data scientists, data engineers, analysts and product owners, and will therefore also be responsible for technical mentorship and team capability development within your subject matter expertise.
What the role will offer:
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A fascinating and diverse analytics opportunity landscape across the enterprise including asset and plant planning, delivery and operations, environment, customer engagement, finance and strategy.
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An exciting portfolio of cutting-edge technology and tools such as Data Lake and Machine Learning on AWS and Azure, Python, open source AI and machine learning libraries, Power BI, and Big Data acquisition systems that include IoT, drones, plant control systems and SCADA.
- An opportunity to work in a passionate team to develop a portfolio of intelligent algorithms and analytics assets that have the potential to fundamentally change how we operate and secure water in Western Australia, forever.
Key skills and experience:
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Degree in Computer Science or Engineering
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5+ years of commercial software development experience is essential.
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Advanced development skills and experience in Python is essential (2+ years).
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Skills and experience with Python data analysis, big data and machine learning libraries is highly desirable.
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Experience developing, implementing and trouble-shooting production-grade highly scalable distributed applications in Cloud environments. AWS is essential, Azure is desirable.
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AWS Certified Associate - Developer with AWS Big Data Speciality is desirable.
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Experience with application containers such as Docker, Kubernetes or Vagrant is essential.
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Experience collaborating with data scientists to implement algorithms in a highly scalable distributed production environment is desirable.
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Basic knowledge of data science methods and techniques: time series, supervised and unsupervised learning, neural networks, deep learning and feature engineering is desirable.
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Experience with Big Data frameworks such as Hadoop and Spark is desirable.
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Advanced skills and experience of data acquisition, ETL processes and Data Warehouses is essential.
- Knowledge and experience working in Scrum / XP software teams using modern software development and collaboration platforms such as Jira and Git Hub or Code Commit is essential.
Applications close – 5th May 2019
Our commitment to an inclusive workplace:
Through our Equity and Diversity Management Plan and People Strategy, Water Corporation is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace of the future.
We understand that unique perspectives, ideas and contributions only strengthen our workforce and are recognised and valued.
We encourage applications supporting our key priority communities - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, women and people with disability.
For people with disability, we are committed to ensuring an accessible and inclusive work environment enabling full participation in all aspects of employment wherever possible by offering reasonable adjustments.
