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Join City of Moreton Bay as a Principal Data Engineer and help shape and enhance our communities for today and tomorrow.

The City of Moreton Bay is embarking on one of the most ambitious digital transformation programs in local government. At the centre is our City Brain initiative, a bold vision to unify data, intelligence, and innovation to better serve our community.

We’re looking for a Principal Data Engineer (Microsoft Fabric) who will be the technical authority and driving force behind our modern data ecosystem. If you're passionate about architecture, governance, and building scalable, high‑impact data platforms, this is the role where you’ll shape the future.

As our Principal Data Engineer, you will lead the end‑to‑end design, governance, and optimisation of the Microsoft Fabric platform, ensuring OneLake becomes the trusted, unified data foundation powering analytics, Copilot, AI/ML, and real‑time insights across the council.

You’ll guide the operational model, champion engineering excellence, and build high‑performing data products and pipelines that enable smarter decisions for the City.

Key responsibilities include:

• Oversee workspace design, capacity planning and cost management.
• Implement enterprise data governance and security using Microsoft Purview.
• Build scalable data products and high‑performance ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Optimise Spark workloads and ensure reliable DataOps monitoring and SLAs.
• Modernise legacy data pipelines and migrate workloads into Fabric.
• Support AI/ML by enabling feature stores and MLOps workflows.
• Lead API and integration standards and own Fabric CI/CD processes.
• Set engineering standards, mentor the team and drive innovation across Fabric.
• Design, own, and govern enterprise‑grade semantic models in Microsoft Fabric, ensuring consistent business definitions, performance optimisation, security, and reuse across analytics, Power BI, and AI workloads.
• Partner with senior stakeholders, vendors and Microsoft specialists to deliver enterprise data platform outcomes.

To succeed in this role, you will have:

• Significant hands on data engineering expertise, supported by solid leadership experience in advanced technical roles.
• Advanced technical capability across the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem (OneLake, Lakehouse/Delta, Spark, Data Factory, Eventstreams, Power BI).
• Strong Python and SQL proficiency.
• Expertise in Purview governance, hybrid ingestion patterns, and distributed systems.
• Experience with CI/CD, DataOps, and IaC practices.
• Ability to influence, mentor, and lead multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience with MLOps, feature engineering, and geospatial data (highly desirable).
• Microsoft certifications beneficial or in progress.

 Position Description_Principal Data Engineer - Fabric.pdf

Why City of Moreton Bay?

What you do with your life matters. It’s the same with your career.

We’re the third-largest council in Australia and one of the fastest-growing areas. As Australia’s newest city, we’re building something that’s never been done before: a new kind of city, inspired and empowered by a new kind of council.

This is your opportunity to develop skills and experience in a truly unique place, at a truly unique point in time.

At City of Moreton Bay, we’re focused on the vital work we do today. But we’re also focused on the future. On what can be – for our city, our Council and your career.

Here’s what you’ll love about a career with us:

• See it. To build a city of the future, first, you have to see it. The polycentric city we’re building will bring greater prosperity, sustainability and affordability to our city. This is your chance to contribute to something that’s never been done before.
• Shape it. You’ll get hands-on in a rewarding career, serving and strengthening our communities for today and tomorrow. Our work is diverse, interesting and it matters – and it’s yours to shape and own.
• Live it. Contribute to the city you and your family want to live in and enjoy the lifestyle you deserve. And if you don’t live here, you’ll still find pride and connection in so many ways with our successful, resilient team.

You’ll also enjoy a range of other benefits:

• Find a better work-life balance with a nine-day (72.5-hour) fortnight, plus a hybrid, flexible working environment with some work-from-home days.
• Negotiated salary increases locked in through our EBA - 4% in July 2026 and a further 4% in July 2027 (or CPI capped at 4.5%, whichever is greater).
• Advance your skills and career through our Study, Training And Research Scheme (STARS).
• Make your pay go further with salary packaging options on novated leases, superannuation payments, smartphones and devices.
• Prioritise your health and wellbeing with discounted health insurance, free annual flu vaccinations and our Fitness Passport Program.
• Get support when you and your family need it most with our 24/7 confidential counselling service, leader support hotline and Mates in Construction program.
• Our Strathpine office has local parking on site and is close to public transport networks, making for an easy commute.

Ready for a career that matters?

Join City of Moreton Bay, and help shape our city of the future.

Click on the 'Apply Now' button below to complete your online application. Please upload a current resume that demonstrates how you meet the requirements for this role.  You will also have the option to add a cover letter should you wish.

As part of the recruitment process, applicants will be required to undergo a National Criminal History Check.

To obtain further details please contact our Careers team at careers@moretonbay.qld.gov.au. 

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Your Future City.
See it. Shape it. Live It.

City of Moreton Bay extends across the traditional lands of the Jinibara, Kabi Kabi, and Turrbal peoples, and we acknowledge and pay respects to Traditional Custodians. We believe diversity of thought, background and experience creates better outcomes for our people and communities, and we strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and people of all ages, genders, abilities and cultural backgrounds.