Senior Data Analytics Specialist - Operations

Position overview

• Permanent, Full-Time opportunity
• True hybrid working – work from home and our Mitcham office
• $166,650 per annum inclusive of 12% superannuation

About us

We’re on a mission to create a brighter future, where you can be a change maker at the actual source. We’re one of Australia’s largest water utilities with over 30% of Victoria’s population relying on us for their essential water and sanitation services.

Our award-winning culture fosters an inclusive, collaborative, and flexible environment that enables our people to thrive. Here, you’ll be inspired and challenged to grow alongside us.

We're committed to reconciliation and supporting the self-determined role for Traditional Owners / Custodians in water and land management.

The role

We’re looking for a Senior Data Analytics Specialist – Operations who brings advanced, hands-on experience with Power BI and deep expertise in Semantic Modelling, DAX, and modern data visualization frameworks.

In this pivotal role, you’ll bridge analytics, reporting, and collaboration with both business and technical stakeholders, ensuring that insights are accurate, timely, and actionable. You will work closely with business stakeholders and data engineering teams to ensure reporting solutions are built on governed, high-quality, and scalable data pipelines.

As part of the Operations team, you’ll take ownership of the ongoing health, reliability, and performance of our enterprise reporting environment. This includes monitoring and ensuring report and data pipeline refreshes, managing and prioritizing items in the EDA service queue, and efficiently troubleshooting or resolving incidents. You will also drive continuous improvement through enhancing and optimizing reports, improving data model performance, and supporting BAU activities such as dataset maintenance, access governance, and version control.

In addition to operational support, the role will involve new report and dashboard development as part of enhancement work, continuous improvement initiatives, or issue remediation. You’ll be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining Power BI solutions that deliver trusted, high-quality insights aligned with business needs.

Experience with modern data platforms such as Azure Databricks is highly valued, enabling you to contribute to data transformations and the ongoing enhancement of our enterprise analytics ecosystem.

Your key responsibilities

What we’re looking for

To view the full position description, click HERE.

Why Yarra Valley Water?

We celebrate and encourage new thinking at every level. Creating opportunities for you to grow – both professionally, and personally. When you flourish, we all do.

To read more about our benefits and culture, read our employee handbook HERE .

Did you know?

Research shows that men apply to jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, while women and other marginalised people tend to only apply when they meet all of them. So, if you think you have what it takes, but don't necessarily tick every box, please apply or get in touch. We'd love to have a chat and see if you could be a great fit.

How to apply

Applications should include a supporting Cover Letter and Resume.

Closing date :  Sunday, 9th November 2025

This position is available for Yarra Valley Water employees and external applicants.

We welcome applications from everyone, including Aboriginal and / or Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, mature age and young job seekers, members of the LGBTIQA+ community and people of all cultural backgrounds. If you need this information in an accessible format or would like to discuss reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please call 03 9872 2542 or email dei@yvw.com.au . If you need any help with the application process or would like to discuss the recruitment process, please contact us via email recruit@yvw.com.au .

Successful applicants must be eligible to work in Australia and agree to provide information for pre-employment checks, if required for the position. This may also include a Police Check or AusCheck, where an offer will be subject to a satisfactory outcome of these checks.

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