• Database
  • Assist with the continued development and scaling of Octopus Australia’s single source of truth for operational and financial data.
  • Map and document current processes within the organisation and the future state of such systems and processes.
  • Identify optimisation opportunities, ensuring data integrity, security, and governance.
  • Analyse information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicting data, break down complex information into finer details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding.
• Insights and Visualisations
  • Implement best practices for data visualization and reporting in Power Bi.
  • Derive actionable insights based on qualitative and quantitative data.
  • Update and where possible automate maintenance of the information platform with monthly and quarterly updates from the business.
  • Develop, maintain, and enhance end-user reports utilising Power BI to facilitate data driven decision making.
• Project Management
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
  • Evaluate potential software solutions, including off-the-shelf and open-source components, and the system architecture to ensure that they meet business requirements.
• Finance Experience
  • Conduct thorough data analysis to identify trends, business insights and opportunities for improvement.
  • Assist with responding to Investor requests.
  • Ad-hoc requests from Strategic Finance team.

About us: 

Established in 2007, CDC Data Centres is Australia’s leading operator of sovereign, secure, world-class data centre facilities.

Headquartered in Canberra with multiple facilities in the ACT, NSW and New Zealand, CDC’s diversified operations provide secure data centre configurations that support co-location, containerised and hyperscale compute environments with all campuses interconnected with high-speed carrier grade networks.

At CDC we are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We believe that everyone’s unique experiences enable us to deliver meaningful benefits for our people, our clients and communities. Our mission is to attract, retain and grow the world’s best data centre team.

Our people are responsive, innovative and trusted in supporting our customers. Together, we configure the landscape to meet the security, reliability, connectivity and sustainability needs for today and tomorrow.

About the role:

We are looking for a Technical Solutions Engineer to provide thought leadership, planning, management, and technical design development for our customer’s and support their migration to/growth within CDC’s Data Centre Facilities. The incumbent will be a Data Centre Engineering SME and will be deployed across the business in technical discovery, customer response preparation and major change consultation.

Key responsibilities include:

•      Work with internal teams to respond to requests from customers and to respond in bid scenarios.

•      Liaise directly with customer technical teams in support of the Head of Engineering Innovation.

•      Assist with hyperscale pre-sales opportunities as required.

•      Provide advice and support to stakeholders and cross functional teams throughout the sales lifecycle.

•      Prepare data centre engineering briefing infromation to ensure alignment between key customer and or CDC Business requirements and project deliverables.

•      Collaborate with the CDC Engineering Delivery Design team to customise and configure design to meet customer specific needs.

•      Participate in the data centre engineering Concept Design phase to ensure alignment between key customer requirements and project deliverables.

•      Manage the development of key customer sales collateral.

•      Gather and relay customer feedback to appropriate parities.

•      Articulate, capture and escalate risk to the Head of Engineering Innovation. 

•      Contribute to CDC Engineering strategy regarding innovation and Data Centre Engineering best practice. 

•      Continually seek out opportunities for innovation for both CDC and its customers.

•      Grow internal networks and provide opportunities to share knowledge and improve performance.

•      Development and management of relationships alongside our Sales teams to identify, coordinate, and win business.

•      Act in an ambassadorial capacity for the company.

•      Attend and contribute to appropriate team and stakeholder meetings and committees as required and relevant to ensure excellent stakeholder engagement and communication.

•      Function as part of a team that occasionally requires work to be completed outside of normal business hours.

•      Embrace and model CDC’s DNA and Leadership Fundamentals and mentor and impart knowledge to junior staff.

•      Provide cultural and operational team leadership.

•      Other duties as directed from time to time.

About you:  

•      5+ years’ relevant experience in Data Centre Engineering Design with a degree qualification in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering with 10+ years total engineering experience

•      Technical solutions experience in Data Centre engineering or critical infrastructure environments.

•      Strong experience in designing and implementing hyperscale data centre engineering developments and customer deployment solutions. 

•      Experience in optimizing and evaluating data centre engineering design for time and cost efficiency.

•      Strong understanding of Data Centre Engineering principles and industry standard design architectures.  

•      Demonstrable track record in pre-sales or post sales.

Essential:

• Australian Citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain AGSVA Security Clearance at Negative Vetting 1 level.

How to Apply:

If you are looking to own your career and take on a new challenge in a fast-growing Australian Technology company and be part of our amazing team, please submit your resume and cover letter by clicking Apply.