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Support Engineer - Data

Position Description- Data & Cloud Operations Support

Primary Function

• Operate, support and maintain cloud-based data solutions, leveraging automation and standardised operational processes.
• Manage cloud environments in accordance with company security guidelines, standards and platform requirements.
• Support, troubleshoot and resolve incidents affecting data applications, pipelines, cloud infrastructure and production services.
• Conduct root cause analysis and problem rectification, implementing corrective and preventative actions to reduce incident recurrence.
• Build, modify and support data pipelines to accommodate operational requirements and changes in data structures.
• Review ETL pipelines, code and deployments from a support and operational perspective to ensure consistency, quality and production readiness.
• Work collaboratively with Engineering, Development and upstream/downstream system teams to resolve production issues and minimise impacts to applications and key SLAs.
• Liaise with business stakeholders, platform teams, cloud vendors and service providers to investigate and resolve application, infrastructure and production issues.
• Maintain and continuously improve support procedures, operational documentation, troubleshooting guides and production best practices.
• Identify gaps in existing support and operational processes and contribute to service, reliability and process improvements.
• Support cloud deployments and production changes, ensuring appropriate operational controls and best practices are followed.
• Provide technical support and guidance to stakeholders on data-platform applications, services and cloud technologies.

Work Experience

• Experience working in Cloud Operations, Production Support, Data Operations or a similar technical support environment.
• Demonstrated experience troubleshooting and analysing data pipelines, cloud applications and production workloads.
• Strong understanding of data warehousing concepts, including ETL processes, data reconciliation, error handling and data lifecycle concepts.
• Working knowledge of cloud data platforms and technologies, preferably including Microsoft Azure, Snowflake and Databricks.
• Experience supporting Azure services such as Azure Data Factory, ADLS, Key Vault, Azure Functions and related cloud infrastructure.
• Knowledge of Databricks concepts including clusters, policies, Delta Tables and performance optimisation techniques.
• Strong understanding of Snowflake data warehouse concepts and operational best practices.
• Exposure to workflow orchestration technologies such as Control M and associated operational practices.
• Experience with CI/CD and DevOps processes, including source control and deployment pipelines using technologies such as Git and Azure.
• Working knowledge of programming and query languages such as Python and SQL; 
• Experience supporting production deployments, code migrations and changes within cloud-based data environments.
• Demonstrated experience in incident management, problem management and root cause analysis.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical and debugging skills.
• Experience using service and collaboration tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Demonstrated experience identifying and implementing operational or process improvements.
• Experience working across Engineering, Development, Operations and business teams to resolve technical issues and deliver outcomes.

Commercial Skills & Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification in Information Technology, Computer Science or a related discipline is preferred.
• Process-oriented approach with strong attention to detail and a commitment to operational quality.
• Good understanding of ITIL principles and service management practices.
• Understanding of IT incident, change and problem management processes.
• Ability to engage effectively with both Business and IT teams.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Customer-centric approach with the ability to understand operational impacts and prioritise service outcomes.
• Ability to communicate technical issues, risks and resolutions clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to work collaboratively across cross-functional teams and coordinate activities through to resolution.
• Sound understanding of enterprise IT systems, integrations and dependencies is advantageous.
• Ability to balance incident resolution, operational priorities and continuous improvement activities.
• Relevant Azure, Snowflake or other cloud technology certifications are highly regarded.

Additional Responsibilities

Area of Accountability : Cloud Workload Management

Key Responsibilities :

•  Maintain cloud-based applications

•  Manage cloud environments in accordance with company security guidelines. 

•  Deploy and debug cloud components as needed in accordance and engage external vendors when required.

Performance Measures

• Cloud Data Framework  maintained to a high standard and operated within SLA.

 

Area of Accountability : Incident Management

Key Responsibilities :

•  Maintains incident repository and manages key information such as Incident & problem fixes procedures, dependencies, and notification lists

•  Resolve incidents raised on applications.

Performance Measures

• Measurable continuous improvement in quality and productivity demonstrated

 

Area of Accountability : Problem Management

Key Responsibilities :

•  Manage risks and resolves issues that affect production systems

•  Measure and monitor progress to ensure application fixes are delivered on time and within budget, and that they meet or exceed expectations

•  Weekly Incident Reporting

Performance Measures

• Contribution to the process improvements. Service Improvements.

Benefits of working at Accenture:

 

·       18 weeks paid parental leave

·       Long & short-term career break opportunities

·       Structured career development program

·       Local and international career opportunities.

·       Certified as a Family Inclusive Workplace™

·       Flexible Work Arrangements - centered around Accenture’s Truly Human ethos and our commitment to supporting the health and wellbeing of our people.

·       We are proud to be in the top 3 of last year’s Diversity & Inclusion Index!

 

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About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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At Accenture, our intention is to foster a culture and a workplace in which all of our people feel a sense of belonging and are respected and empowered to do their best work. 

As part of our talent strategy, we hire and develop people who have different backgrounds, different perspectives and different lived experiences. These differences ensure that we have and attract the cognitive diversity to deliver a variety of perspectives, observations and insights which are essential to drive the innovation needed to reinvent, and we hold our leaders accountable for ensuring we have the most innovative and talented people in our industry.

 
We encourage applications from all people, and we are committed to removing barriers to the recruitment process and employee lifecycle. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, religion or sexual orientation and we do not tolerate discrimination. If you require adjustments to the recruitment process or have a preferred communication method, please email exectalent@accenture.com and cite the relevant Job Number, or contact us on +61 2 9005 5000.

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