Job Description The Role: The Department requires data engineering, data science and data architecture skills to support development greater data capability in the Department and supporting a ‘data-informed diplomacy’ capability. The successful candidate will drive Department requirements, understanding of data to inform policy and program work, including providing advice on best practice data collection, data integrity, data interpretation and representation. Primary Duties: Maintain and develop data systems to support The Departments ‘data informed diplomacy’ objectives including: scoping and development of relevant data sources, open source and official scoping and building of data models, working with a PowerBI developer maintenance and extension of scripts/tools for ETL, data wrangling, data cleaning and robust data syncing, utilising Python and other tools Data analysis and visualisation Maintain and develop AI tool(s) to support policy analysis including; maintenance and extension of a project for the summarisation and further analysis of open-source (news) and official material (Python, OpenAI, Azure) subject to stakeholder engagement, expand or fork the tool for other use cases fulfil documentation requirements. Location and Contract Term: This role is based in ACT . Contract till 30 June 2026 with 2 x 12-month extension options pending budget and delegate approval. Security Requirements : Applicants must be Australian Citizens. A NV1 (NV2 preferred) security clearance is required for this role. How to Apply: Applications close 1 September. Please upload your resume to apply. Candidates will need to be willing to undergo pre-employment screening checks which may include, ID and work rights, security clearance verification and any other client requested checks Please note you may need to complete selection criteria to complete this application process. We will be in touch with instructions for suitably skilled candidates Call Kelly 0480 002 457 or email kelly@whizdom.com.au for any further information
