EMPLOYMENT

Did you know? The mission of the Australian Federal Police is to provide dynamic and effective law enforcement to the people of Australia. It provides policing throughout Australia in relation to the prevention and detection of crimes against the Commonwealth, its laws and integrity, and community police services to the Community of the ACT. Working for the AFP provides you with a diverse and rewarding career. Whether you immerse yourself in a position on the frontline, or provide critical operational or professional support, the work you do makes a big impact on the people of Australia. We recognise your contribution to our workforce and offer generous remuneration and conditions including: Six weeks (30 days) of paid annual leave per year additional paid Christmas stand down 4 extra days of mandatory rest leave per year 18 days of paid personal leave per year Generous superannuation of 15.4% 18 weeks paid Parental Leave for Primary Caregiver (and 11 weeks for Secondary Caregiver) additional unpaid leave entitlements for up until 24 months from the child's date of birth or placement Generous salaries and incremental salary progression governed by the AFP Enterprise Agreement Flexible and hybrid working arrangement that provides work/life balance Health & wellbeing services - with a focus on early intervention, education and prevention Access to ongoing training and professional development opportunities The key duties of the position include Sitting within the Technology, Strategy and Data branch the Data Analytics Team is responsible for developing and enhancing the AFP's Business Intelligence capability (SAS Firefly). We have broad and exciting remit, working with stakeholders at all levels of the AFP to provide them with business intelligence reporting to assist in make better informed data driven decisions. Work is often driven by executive needs and outcome reporting for major operations, the breadth and visibility provided exposes the team to amazing opportunities to see what many areas of the AFP do and how they do it. Maintaining the BI capability has three main streams, platform administration, Data engineering (ETL) and Visual analytics (Report and dashboard development). The team has a range of platform administration, data analyst and data engineering skills to manage these elements and uses an agile methodology to assist in prioritisation. We are a mid-sized team (6-8 members) which is geographically spread and utilises technology to support a strong and effective flexible working culture. This role has been created specifically to lead the platform administration aspect of our work and to support our data engineering process. What will you do? The successful candidate will be required to: Maintenance of the SAS Platform through first level Platform administration, and continuing to build these skills to perform patching, testing, monitoring and fault checking. Complex system administration including troubleshooting and leading SAS Firefly problem resolution. Deriving security requirements from business teams and understand complex technical landscapes to implement appropriate security models. Documentation of technical SOPs. Raise and present technical changes in appropriate forums. Ability to build and maintain complex data pipelines using SAS toolsets. Validating SAS ETL and analytical outputs of team members to ensure appropriate quality control. Business Analysis including developing business requirements in sensitive business areas. Work collaboratively and communicate well within a self-sufficient scrum team. Establishing and maintaining strong stakeholder relationships.