Platform Engineering & Modelling Lead

• Lead the engineering capability behind Jetstars enterprise data platform  
• Shape the reliability scalability and evolution of the platforms that power data analytics and automation across the business  
• Full-time opportunity based in Melbourne with hybrid working arrangements 

Love travel and passionate about all things aviation. Youre in the right place. At Jetstar you get to takeoff at work and in life. 

As a team were lucky we get to do both for a living and we want you to be part of where we go next. Helping our teammates soar is what were all about. And with a new fleet of state-of-the-art aircraft plus new routes being added the skys the limit. 

 
Takeoff with your next opportunity  

As the Platform Engineering & Modelling Lead youll lead the engineering and modelling capability behind Jetstars enterprise data platform ensuring the technology that supports data analytics data science and automation across the organisation is reliable resilient secure and cost-effective.  

Leading teams across platform engineering data and operations engineering and modelling and transformation youll set the technical direction and engineering standards for the domain while developing a strong high-performing engineering capability. 

Youll oversee the operation and ongoing evolution of our cloud data environment including Snowflake and Amazon Web Services with accountability spanning data pipelines transformation modelling platform performance resilience technical debt and cost. Youll also play a critical role in technical incident management disaster recovery and ensuring the platform can continue to scale with the needs of the business. 

This is a senior technical leadership role suited to someone who combines deep data engineering expertise with strong people leadership and operational accountability. Youll be comfortable remaining close enough to the technology to make and challenge complex technical decisions while leading specialist engineers and translating technical risk and cost considerations for senior stakeholders. 

To be considered for this role key skills will include: 

• Extensive hands-on experience in cloud data platform and data engineering ideally within Snowflake environments alongside strong exposure to AWS  
• Proven experience leading multi-disciplinary engineering teams including permanent offshore and contingent workforces with the ability to build technical capability and develop specialist talent  
• Strong experience in data modelling and transformation including practical experience with dbt engineering standards automated testing version control and release disciplines  
• Demonstrated accountability for platform reliability and resilience including technical incident leadership disaster recovery capacity planning and data quality  
• Strong understanding of DevOps and MLOps environments with the technical credibility to lead and guide specialists across these disciplines  
• Strong commercial and stakeholder capability with experience managing cloud consumption costs vendors and technology partners and communicating complex technical decisions to senior and non-technical stakeholders 

Your life at Jetstar is unlike any other 

Live the travel dream: You and your nominated travel companions can takeoff more with our famous Qantas Group Staff Travel discount. 

Make work feel like a holiday: Join a fun driven team where work feels like a holiday. Our people take every opportunity to takeoff together and find ways to help their teammates soar. 

Theres a place for everyone at Jetstar: For us travel and meeting new people go hand in hand. We invite our people to get involved in various Employee Network Groups that play an important role in creating our inclusive and supportive culture that we are fiercely proud of. We believe that teams with a diversity of ideas and experiences are more creative innovative and solve problems quickly. We welcome applications from anyone who wants to takeoff with us. If you have support or access requirements just reach out and let us know what you need. 

Were Jetstar.  Lets takeoff together. 

We cant wait to hear from you.  

Application close: Wednesday 4th of November 2026 

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time