Introduction
This guide walks through the application task for the Associate Data Engineer role with eHealth NSW in Chatswood, St Leonards or Charlestown. Build and support programmatic data pipelines for NSW Health using Python, complex SQL, Snowflake and AWS, with strong testing, logging and failure diagnosis.
Use this checklist while planning your application. View the official job ad as you work so your documents stay aligned with the current instructions.
NSW Government applications are assessed against both the submission instructions and the role requirements. Submit the requested documents in the correct format and support your claims with specific evidence.
Associate Data Engineer role snapshot
| Role | Associate Data Engineer |
|---|---|
| Organisation | eHealth NSW |
| Location | Chatswood, St Leonards or Charlestown |
| Employment | Permanent full-time |
| Salary or grade | $118,821 to $140,201 plus 12% super and 17.5% annual leave loading |
| Job ID | 603464 |
| Closing date | Applications close 11:59 pm, Monday 19 October 2026 |
| Official vacancy | View the official job ad |
NSW Government application requirements
Application requirements are used to screen submissions for compliance. Follow every document, page and word limit shown below and recheck the application form before submitting.
Application requirements for Associate Data Engineer
- Cover letter highlighting your relevant skills and experience
- Current resume, maximum five pages
Essential role requirements
- Current Australian work rights
- Applicants outside NSW should state whether they are willing to relocate
Candidate evidence for Associate Data Engineer
Choose evidence that matches the practical work and level of responsibility. Make your own decisions, actions and results easy for the panel to assess.
| Evidence area | How to demonstrate it |
|---|---|
| Python data pipelines | Show code you wrote to ingest, transform or synchronise data through APIs or cloud services, including the engineering choices you made. |
| Complex SQL and Snowflake | Explain a difficult query, data-model or performance problem and how you validated the result. |
| Reliability and troubleshooting | Describe how you traced a pipeline failure, fixed the underlying issue and added logging, testing or error handling to prevent silent failure. |
| Engineering collaboration | Show how you documented defects or logic, worked with senior engineers and improved the quality of a production release. |
Example application structure for Associate Data Engineer
- Opening: establish your relevant setting, level of responsibility and reason for applying.
- Primary evidence: use your strongest example, including the problem, your decisions and the result.
- Supporting evidence: add a different example that shows how you worked with others or managed risk.
- Closing: connect your evidence to the organisation and confirm any eligibility or work-arrangement points.
Application-form check
Open the application form before drafting and add any screening questions or upload instructions to your plan.
Before you submit
Check that every requested document and response is present, within its limit and easy to match to the role. Verify names, dates and figures, then return to the official vacancy for the final portal check.
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