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About the Role

The Senior Data Engineer will develop scalable, reliable, and cost-effective data solutions, contributing to the end-to-end lifecycle of data platforms and pipelines. You will provide technical input to Architects, Delivery Leads, and Product Owners, translating business requirements into cloud-based solutions and collaborating with various teams to support engineering standards.

Responsibilities

Contribute to solution design, development, implementation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of data platforms and pipelines.
Provide technical input to Architects, Delivery Leads, and Product Owners.
Translate business and analytical requirements into practical cloud-based solutions.
Collaborate with Data Modellers, Technical Business Analysts, Delivery Leads, Product Owners, and Visualisation Engineers.
Support enterprise engineering standards.
Contribute to the ongoing development of the Data Engineering practice.
Design and operate reliable data products for different business domains.
Promote consistent engineering standards across internal and partner teams.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in data engineering or a similar hands-on, data-intensive role within a large and complex technology environment.
Expert hands-on experience with Snowflake, including data modelling, platform security, access controls, performance tuning, and cost optimisation.
Advanced experience with AWS and its data, storage, and integration services; or equivalent Azure or Google Cloud experience.
Strong expertise in dbt (core), including transformation, modelling, automated testing, documentation, and release management.
Enterprise-scale workflow orchestration experience, ideally using Apache Airflow or AWS Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow, including dependency management, retries, and backfill patterns.
Advanced SQL capability, including complex analytical queries, query optimisation, and set-based problem-solving.
Strong hands-on Python experience for data engineering, supported by sound software engineering practices such as version control, automated testing, peer review, and maintainable code.
Experience using Terraform or equivalent infrastructure as code, including reusable module design, state management, and environment promotion.
Demonstrated experience designing and operating multiple reliable data products for different business domains, with strong knowledge of data quality, observability, security, and governance.
Exposure to FinOps considerations, including cost attribution, forecasting, and optimisation of cloud and data-platform consumption.
Deep understanding of enterprise data integration across SaaS platforms, APIs, networking environments, and complex source systems.
Exposure to Power BI, including an understanding of how semantic models and reports consume data-platform assets.
Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical and senior stakeholders.
Demonstrated ability to provide technical direction, review designs and code, mentor engineers, and promote consistent engineering standards across internal and partner teams.
Experience with Snowflake OpenFlow and Snowflake DCM (Highly regarded).
Experience with Alation, Cloudability, or Datadog (Highly regarded).
Experience establishing and operating data contracts between data producers and consumers (Highly regarded).
Experience with Apache Kafka and event-streaming architectures (Highly regarded).

Skills

DataStage development
Teradata
Snowflake
AWS
Azure
Google Cloud
dbt (core)
Apache Airflow
AWS Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow
SQL
Python
Terraform
Power BI
Snowflake OpenFlow
Snowflake DCM
Alation
Cloudability
Datadog
Apache Kafka

Location

Mascot Campus

Work Type

Hybrid
Permanent
Full-time

Experience Level

Senior
5+ years

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics or another relevant quantitative or technical discipline.

Benefits

Staff Travel Benefits from Day One
Heavily discounted air travel within Australia and across the globe, both for you and your family and friends
Exclusive deals on accommodation and holidays
Flexible leave options
18 weeks paid parental leave (plus superannuation payments on all paid and unpaid parental leave until your child turns 1)
Additional purchased leave options for eligible employees
Discounts across shopping, food and wine, insurance, health and wellbeing, leisure and entertainment
Salary packaging program including motor vehicles, eligible portable electronic devices and professional memberships
Support for wellbeing, including mental health resources, a wellbeing app, and tailored nutrition plans
On the job training and coaching
Formal training opportunities

About the Company

You’ll join a team where creativity and passion are encouraged.
Our people come together to allow us to dream big and deliver successfully.
There are many different opportunities across our team, which means you’ll be able to grow both personally and professionally at Qantas.
Your development is a priority for us – so that you can maintain the high standards our customers have come to expect and can continue to develop over time.
While you may start in this role, we’ve got a great track record of supporting our people to take their career in so many different directions, the destinations are endless.