Job specification
Role details
Title
Senior Manager, Enterprise Analytics Engineering
Role number
225
Location
Sydney, Canberra or Melbourne
Classification
Executive Level 2
Branch
Innovation and Technology
Type of vacancy
Ongoing
Contact officer
Nicole Illing 02 9950 0813
Eligibility
The successful applicant will be required to undergo a
security assessment, maintain an ongoing security
clearance and satisfy AUSTRAC’s pre-engagement
checks.
To be eligible for assessment, applicants must be an
Australian citizen.
Closing date for applications
12 November 2015
Application information
The job description and selection criteria are attached for your information.
Applications should be forwarded to recruitment@austrac.gov.au by 5pm AEDST on the
specified closing date.
Further details advising how to apply for the role, including ‘preparing your statement of
claims against the selection criteria’ is available on the AUSTRAC employment website.
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Job description
The job description is specific to each role and sets out the duties associated with the role.
Use the job description to guide your choice of information to include in your claims against
the selection criteria so that the selection panel can clearly see your suitability for this
particular role.
The Senior Manager, Enterprise Analytics Engineering under broad direction is responsible
for:
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leading a team to contribute and solve important business problems using data and
data science
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working closely with the operational analytics teams to create useful, scalable and
sustainable analytics solutions
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promoting the concepts of analytics and machine learning capabilities and how they
can be applied to achieve whole of agency outcomes

establishing and maintaining strong relationships with a broad set of senior business
and technology stakeholders and work with them to define and solve business
problems using advanced analytic techniques (from the initial idea through to
modelling and implementation)
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working with operational analytics staff (including data miners) to enable them to
develop capability to directly deliver world class analytic outcomes
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working with partners and stakeholders to augment the skillset available for analytics
problems
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working with architecture and development teams to build robust, sustainable and
adaptable analytics and platforms and tools to support agency initiatives
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facilitating the creation of data products and data wrangling by integrating diverse
data from various internal and external sources
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capitalising on the interrelationships between diverse sets of data as well as the
disparate systems, processes and locations which house them
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deep dive into large data sets and provide predictive data analytics to foresee where
financial intelligence trends could potentially occur
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monitoring the environment and marketplace to gain knowledge and understanding of
emerging technology pertaining to data capture, holdings, ability to share, exploit and
regulate-both domestically and internationally.
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working with others scoping risks and issues that may prevent AUSTRAC from
making maximum use of its data in particular from the aspect of key agency initiatives
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specifying and understanding at a strategic level the business, their functions and
environment to support future data analytic tools, methodologies and facilitate
knowledge sharing
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ensuring appropriate methods and tools are applied to retrieve, transform, curate,
visualise, and analyse data and to build related data products
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working closely with Engineering to write programs and integrate custom-off-the-shelf
solutions to retrieve, clean, transform, and visualise data, and build predictive data
products that inform business decisions
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contributing to strategic plans, which satisfy the current and ongoing needs of the
organisation's business strategy, and the current and future capabilities
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liaising with private sector organisations on public-private partnership projects

provide cogent advice to the CIO and other AUSTRAC senior management on
innovation and technology developments including potential opportunities for the
agency.
Selection criteria
You must make a statement of claims against each of the six selection criteria. When
preparing your claims, please refer to the job description.
1. Shapes strategic thinking
2. Achieves results
3. Cultivates productive working relationships
4. Exemplifies personal drive and integrity
5. Communicates with influence
6. Possesses relevant qualifications and/or experience
Desirable: a tertiary qualification in a related field e.g. PhD in computer science, data
science, mathematics, or statistics.
Minimum experience required: Demonstrated experience in Search-driven open source
textual analytics.
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Attachment 1: Selection criteria explanatory notes
EL2 capabilities in AUSTRAC
This section sets out the capabilities expected of all EL2 employees in AUSTRAC as they
achieve the requirements of their job description. These capabilities do not need to be
addressed specifically in your application, but rather they may be drawn on to provide
guidance in the drafting of your application.
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Translate AUSTRAC’s strategic direction into operational goals for the business unit.
Ensure every member of the business unit understands AUSTRAC’s strategic
direction, how it translates into operational goals and how their individual roles
contribute.
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Contribute to timely and relevant advice to government and AUSTRAC management
on a broad range of business unit issues.
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Contribute to the business unit’s sustainability by developing long term plans for the
business unit, identifying critical gaps, minimising risks, exploring new ideas,
identifying critical success factors, instigating best practice approaches and
responding to changing demands.

Manage the outputs and outcomes of the business unit by developing and
implementing business plans, establishing business priorities and monitoring and
adjusting to ensure success. Consider the impact of the operations of the business
unit on other AUSTRAC business units, the whole of government agenda and other
stakeholders.
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Harness financial and administrative resources to deliver results.
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Build teams with complementary skills that value and capitalise on team and external
expertise, knowledge and skills, whilst adding own expertise to ensure outcomes.
Foster the team by delegating, encouraging, praising, supporting, motivating,
empowering and dealing swiftly with underperformance.

Respond positively and flexibly to change and assist business unit staff to adapt to
the change.

Contribute to an environment of relationship building, cooperation, diversity, client
service, mutually beneficial outcomes and information sharing throughout AUSTRAC,
with AUSTRAC peers, with government and with a range of other external
stakeholders.

Show strong leadership by striving to achieve, making tough decisions, taking
calculated risks, encouraging discussion, taking responsibility for mistakes,
welcoming feedback and input, and honestly reviewing own performance.

Show strong communication skills by confidently articulating the business unit’s and
AUSTRAC’s messages to a range of audiences both within and external to
AUSTRAC and arguing logically and convincingly.

Adhere to APS Values and Code of Conduct and expect the same from others.
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