Job specification
Role details
Title
Senior Analytics Engineer-Enterprise Analytics
Role number
483
Location
Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne
Classification
Executive Level 1
Branch
Innovation and Technology
Type of vacancy
Ongoing, Full Time
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
18 December 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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Innovation & Technology branch
A world facing unprecedented technological opportunities and threats, where criminal
organisations and terrorists are adept at using technology in sophisticated ways to expose
our financial system to malicious use, creates an imperative for a powerful counter-strategy
to combat this complex problem.
Our information is the very lifeblood of our organisation. We believe that our success will be
determined by our ability to manage, protect, nurture and exploit our data to derive useful
information and insight. In response, we develop intelligent and innovative approaches and
instil a continual improvement mindset around our data and information.
The Innovation & Technology branch creatively connects people, information and advanced
technology to keep ahead of our adversaries by upholding these principles:
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We embrace tech-savvy people with a belief in AUSTRAC's mission, a passion for
problem solving and a relentless drive to apply our particular capabilities in a complex
changing environment.
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We act as custodians of a national information asset and are committed to the
challenge of unlocking the latent power in this information to combat financial crime.
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We have innovation in our DNA. We nurture innovation pathways by seeking out and
supporting the development of ideas, allowing them to compete in an efficient
innovation marketplace by encouraging experimentation and providing infrastructure
that allows ideas to start small, scale fast and fail cheaply.
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We collaborate across functions with internal, domestic and international partners
because we understand co-creation leads to the most effective mission outcomes.
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We put the needs of users first so they can access the information and services they
need quickly and efficiently.
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We seize opportunities. Rather than executing rigid plans we accept that re-planning
is the norm. We are empowered to speak up and turn change to our advantage.
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We work to remain agile and adapt as we learn, while keeping a healthy respect for
the security and quality constraints of our environment.
Who are you?
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Do you have the drive to deliver on your ideas?
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Are you an enthusiastic and passionate learner who is always looking to improve?
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Do you have an open mind to new ideas and technologies?
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Are you able to prioritise well?
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Do you have a passion to work with cool technologies to better your country or the
world?
What do we have for you?
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An ever-changing, challenging and inspiring environment.
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Hard problems to help us solve in collaboration with our partners; any way we can.
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A team of like-minded, agile experimentalists and inventors, who aren’t afraid to fail,
try again… and always deliver their best.
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.
As a leader within the Innovation & Technology branch (ITB), the role is responsible for the
leadership and management of a team of data professionals who provide a specific set of
functions to assist the agency in achieving its mandate.
This role is works with others to deliver against the innovation and technology mandate for
the organisation as stipulated in the AUSTRAC Corporate Plan and supported by the ITB
plan. They are also responsible for ensuring the team has the required knowledge to be able
to deliver against business as usual activities to support the day-to-day needs of the branch.
Cross-team working is essential to promoting a culture that is agile and experimental.
The Enterprise Analytics (EA) stream within IEA is responsible for the development of
enterprise scale analytics solutions to ensure structured and unstructured data can be used
as actionable financial intelligence by AUSTRAC and its partners. Its remit encompasses
data as a recognised national asset that extends across its holdings, governance, use,
software and related analytic tools to ensure it can be transformed into credible financial
information and intelligence.
This role understands business needs, enhancing capabilities and effectiveness by ensuring
problems and subsequent proposed solutions are properly understood and solved using data
and robust data science. It works closely with the Data Exploitation team that provide
operational analytics to create research and development prototypes including data science
models.
These prototypes are tactical solutions that need to be transformed into enterprise solutions
by the EA team. This role is able to assess how potential tactical solutions may lead to future
technical debt or denigrate AUSTRAC's ability to exploit, share, enhance or sustain its data.
The position works with others to manage the data requirements, establish and modifies data
structures leading to the retrieval, transformation, and analysis of data.
As a member of the dynamic Innovation and Technology branch, this role requires a
commitment to monitoring and understanding 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.
This position works with others in scoping risks and issues that may prevent AUSTRAC from
making maximum use of its data in particular from the aspect of key agency initiatives, and
understands 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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The position is responsible for developing relationships with stakeholders to highlight the
importance of continual improvement, and new methods such as enhanced analytics; by way
of open communication, discussion, feedback loops and collaboration both formally and
informally.
Under broad direction, the Senior Analytics Engineer, Enterprise Analytics 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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work 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 it can
be applied to achieve whole of agency outcomes
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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 architecture and development teams to build robust, sustainable and
adaptable analytics and platforms and tools to support agency initiatives
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designing, building, and testing scalable, stable, and efficient analytics systems
handling large volumes of structured and unstructured data
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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 diving 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

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

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
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organisation's business strategy, and the current and future capabilities.
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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. Displays personal drive and integrity
5. Communicates with influence
6. Possesses relevant qualifications and/or experience
Note: The position holder must be able to obtain and maintain a Negative Vetting 2 security
clearance.
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Attachment 1: Selection criteria explanatory notes
EL1 capabilities in AUSTRAC
This section sets out the capabilities expected of all EL1employees 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.
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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.
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Respond positively and flexibly to change and assist business unit staff to adapt to
the change.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Adhere to APS Values and Code of Conduct and expect the same from others.
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