Data Solution Architect

Jetstar Airways Pty Ltd; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Staff travel discount

Hybrid work arrangements

Job summary

Jetstar Airways Pty Ltd in Melbourne seeks an experienced Data Solution Architect to shape the future of its modern enterprise data platform, with Snowflake at the heart of the environment. You'll lead architectural design, data ingestion, transformation, modelling and governance to enable analytics and rapid decision-making across the business.

You will collaborate with engineers and stakeholders, promote reusable patterns, and guide legacy migrations from Teradata/Oracle/SQL Server into

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on experience designing and architecting production solutions within Snowflake environments.
• Strong experience with dbt for large-scale data transformation and modelling.
• Demonstrated experience embedding data governance within modern cloud data platforms.
• Experience delivering or leading migrations from legacy data warehouses, such as Teradata, Oracle, SQL Server, into cloud-based environments.
• Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to clearly articulate architectural decisions and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Exposure to technologies such as Alation or similar data catalogues, Fivetran, Snowflake Openflow or Apache NiFi, and Confluent Kafka or other event-streaming platforms will be highly regarded.

Responsibilities

• Architect and lead design of production Snowflake environments within a modern data platform.
• Oversee data ingestion, transformation, modelling, access, governance and real-time analytics.
• Establish reusable architecture patterns and standards; guide migration of legacy data warehouses to Snowflake.
• Communicate architectural decisions, risks and trade-offs to senior and non-technical stakeholders.
• Collaborate with engineers and architects across teams to ensure platform evolves with Jetstar's needs.

Skills

Snowflake architecture

dbt data transformation

Data governance

Legacy migrations

Stakeholder communication

Data catalogues exposure

Tools

Alation

Fivetran

Snowflake Openflow

Apache NiFi

Confluent Kafka

Job description

• Shape the future architecture of Jetstar's modern enterprise data platform
• Use your deep Snowflake expertise to design secure, scalable and well-governed data solutions
• Full-time opportunity based in Melbourne, with hybrid working arrangements

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

As a team, we're 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 we're all about. And with a new fleet of state-of-the-art aircraft, plus new routes being added, the sky's the limit.

Takeoff with your next opportunity

As the Data Solution Architect, you'll help shape the future of Jetstar's modern enterprise data platform, with Snowflake at the heart of the environment. Working alongside our existing Data Architect and broader architecture community, you'll design secure, scalable and well-governed solutions that enable data, analytics, automation and faster decision-making across the business.

You'll provide architectural leadership across the platform, including data ingestion, transformation, modelling, access, governance and real-time analytics. You'll establish reusable architecture patterns and standards, guide the migration of legacy data warehouses into Snowflake, and help ensure the platform continues to evolve in line with Jetstar's future needs.

This is an opportunity for an experienced architect who combines deep technical expertise with strong communication and influencing capability. You'll be comfortable engaging with engineers and architects at a detailed technical level, while clearly explaining architectural decisions, risks and trade-offs to senior and non-technical stakeholders.

To be considered for this role, key skills will include:

• Significant hands-on experience designing and architecting production solutions within Snowflake environments
• Strong experience with dbt for large-scale data transformation and modelling
• Demonstrated experience embedding data governance within modern cloud data platforms
• Experience delivering or leading migrations from legacy data warehouses, such as Teradata, Oracle, SQL Server, into cloud-based environments
• Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to clearly articulate architectural decisions and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Exposure to technologies such as Alation or similar data catalogues, Fivetran, Snowflake Openflow or Apache NiFi, and Confluent Kafka or other event-streaming platforms will be highly regarded

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.

There's 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.

We're Jetstar. Let's takeoff together.

We can't wait to hear from you.

Application close: Tuesday, 24th of November 2026