Senior Data Engineer

• Shape how the organisation thinks learns and makes decisions.
• Challenge yourself to shape scale and operate a nextgeneration cloud data platform at enterprise scale.
• 12 Month initial Fixed-Term Contract role based at Jetstar HQ in Melbourne with flexible hybrid working and Travel Benefit from Day one!

Jetstar thrives on innovation! We are always looking to employ ambitious and proactive professionals to help our business work smarter and more efficiently. You will be encouraged to think innovatively whilst developing and maintaining best practice.

Were searching for a Senior Data Engineer who wants to be more than a builder - someone who wants to shape how the organisation thinks learns and makes decisions. Our efforts are a key strategic enabler of a new way of working one founded on experimentation rapid iteration and evidencebased thinking.

Youll help evolve our Snowflakecentric cloud data platform building the reliable secure and observable foundations and advancements that allow teams to safely test assumptions learn fast and move with confidence. By creating platforms designed for speed feedback and trust youll directly enable decision science at scale and accelerate how insights turn into action across the business.

What youll do:

• Design build and maintain scalable high-performance data pipelines maturing our Enterprise Data Availability and enabling our innovation pipeline.
• Drive and evolve Data Engineering/DataOps practices to improve data quality delivery speed and reliability across the data engineering lifecycle.
• Own data architecture and design decisions that balance performance scalability maintainability and cost efficiency.
• Define data quality standards and ensures data assets are trustworthy well-documented and support confident decision-making.
• Ensure data governance security and compliance requirements are embedded by design while enabling fast safe delivery.
• Act as a senior technical authority influencing data platform direction and uplifting engineering capability.

Youll bring:

• Tertiary qualification in Computer Science Engineering Information Technology Data Science or a related discipline or equivalent practical experience
• Relevant cloud and data platform certifications at a professional or advanced level are highly desirable such as: Snowflake SnowPro Core / Advanced Architect AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional / Data Analytics - Specialty
• Formal training or certifications in Data Engineering Data Architecture or Cloud Data Platforms are advantageous
• Demonstrated experience as a Senior Data Engineer or similar role within enterprise-scale or regulated environments
• Experience building data platforms analytics workloads or data-intensive systems in cloud environments
• Proven track record of influencing data architecture standards and engineering practices beyond immediate delivery tasks
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives mentor peers and work well with business stakeholders.
• Deep expertise in cloud-native data architectures and distributed systems ideally within large-scale analytics environments
• Strong hands-on experience with modern data platforms (Snowflake preferred) including a strong understanding of data warehousing data lakes and lakehouse architectures
• Proven capability designing and building data pipelines using ELT/ETL tools and orchestration frameworks (e.g. Snowflake Fivetran Apache Airflow)
• Experience with other data ingestion solutions (Apache NiFi Advantageous)
• Strong proficiency in SQL and Python for data transformation pipeline development and automation
• Experience implementing data quality frameworks testing strategies and observability across data pipelines
• Solid understanding of data modeling techniques (dimensional modeling) and schema design patterns
• Working knowledge of data governance principles including data lineage cataloging and metadata management
• Experience with DataOps practices including version control (Git) CI/CD for data pipelines and deployment automation
• Understanding of cloud data services and architectures - AWS preferred including S3 Lambda VPC IAM Private Networking and Airflow (MWAA)
• Collaborate with data consumers to understand requirements and deliver fit-for-purpose data solutions.
• Apply DataOps principles to automate testing deployment and monitoring of data pipelines.
• Document data lineage definitions and technical specifications to support data discovery and governance.
• Ensure adherence to data security privacy and compliance requirements in all data engineering work.
• Support and maintain our role-based access control (RBAC/UBAC) security model to ensure secure access control to data.
• Tertiary qualification in Computer Science Engineering Information Technology Data Science or a related discipline or equivalent practical experience
• Relevant cloud and data platform certifications at a professional or advanced level are highly desirable such as: Snowflake SnowPro Core / Advanced Architect AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional / Data Analytics - Specialty
• Formal training or certifications in Data Engineering Data Architecture or Cloud Data Platforms are advantageous

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 take off together

We cant wait to hear from you.

Applications will close on the 11th of June 2026   - Apply at the earliest to be considered!

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time