Specialist Developer Programmer (Data Engineer)

The Company:

Hexagon is a global leader in digital reality solutions, combining sensor, software, and autonomous technologies. We are putting data to work to boost efficiency, productivity, quality, and safety across industrial, manufacturing, infrastructure, public sector, and mobility applications.

Our technologies are shaping the production and people-related ecosystems to become increasingly connected and autonomous — ensuring a scalable, sustainable future.

Leica Geosystems Pty Ltd, trading as Hexagon’s Mining division solves surface and underground mine challenges with proven technologies for planning, operations, and safety.

Hexagon (Nasdaq Stockholm: HEXA B) has approximately 24,000 employees in 50 countries and net sales of approximately 5.5bn USD. Learn more at hexagon.com and follow us @HexagonAB.

Purpose of Position:

We are seeking a Specialist Developer Programmer (Data Engineer) to join our Perth, WA team. The Specialist Developer Programmer (Data Engineer) is a key role in the delivery of Hexagon’s One Platform interoperable data vision.

You will have a proven track record in data engineering and you will have the opportunity to change an industry – to enable that industry to improve how it works with data across it’s entire value chain.

The Data Engineer responsibilities are;

• Champion best-practices and drive adoption of Hexagon’s data standards.
• Ensure data definitions are clearly defined and easy to consume
• Enable the delivery of data-interoperability across the entire mining industry value-chain
• Ensure data definitions, classification and versioning are managed
• Identify and assist in defining new high-value data definitions ready for data science applications
• Identify, design and assist in building and maintaining automated data pipelines and transformations
• Developing data enablement infrastructure
• Implementing security and privacy measures
• Monitoring and troubleshooting
• Work with BI report developers, data analysts, and data scientists to identify gaps or improvements to data definitions.

Responsibilities:

• Strong time management and prioritisation skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with clients and internal teams.
• High level of personal drive and self-motivation.
• Desire to expand own knowledge and skill set as well as share knowledge.
• Review, validate and contribute to technical documentation relating to the deployment of new data definition releases.
• Communicate progress status of work.
• Provide accurate estimates of remaining work.
• Compliance with Hexagon’s Workplace Health and Safety policies and procedures, participation in audits and compliance with instructions given in respect to the health and safety of himself / herself and the safety of others.
• Other duties as from time to time.

Required Experience:

• Understanding of the principles, tools and programs for modern data enablement.
• Experience with engineering, reporting, analytics, cloud, visualisation and/or machine learning.
• Experience analysing data in relation to data engineering projects.
• Experience in writing and maintaining technology and data documentation.
• Understanding of Mining environment.
  

Desired Experience:

• Experience working with defined data standards.
• Experience conducting data analysis and preparing reports.
• Experience working with cloud and on-premise data pipelines.
• Experience with data lakes and data lake tools.
• Experience with coding languages and tools such as SQL, NoSQL, Python, PySpark, Airflow, Azure, AWS, CloudFormation, Restful API, Postgres, MongoDB, Snowflake, Tableau, Docker, JFrog, Bamboo, Batch and Shell.
• Integrating services across multiple cloud vendors
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases.
• Experience with cloud platforms
• Experience in working with data warehouses and data lakes