Enterprise Data Platform Lead - Principal Data Engineer

Qantas Airways; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Staff Travel Benefits from Day One

Job summary

Qantas Airways is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to lead the evolution of its enterprise data platforms at Mascot Campus. The role will drive design, delivery and governance of scalable, secure data solutions across the organisation, partnering with senior stakeholders to translate business requirements into cloud-based platforms.

You will mentor engineers, review architectures, and champion engineering excellence, continuous improvement and knowledge sharing within the Data & Analytics

Qualifications

• Extensive experience leading enterprise-scale data engineering initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Define technical direction for enterprise data platforms and shape engineering standards.
• Mentor engineers and conduct architecture reviews to ensure production-ready designs.
• Partner with architects, delivery leads and stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable cloud solutions.
• Establish data quality, observability and data contract frameworks and oversee incident response.

Skills

Snowflake

AWS

dbt

SQL

Python

Airflow

Terraform

FinOps

data quality

observability

stakeholder management

mentoring

Tools

Snowflake Openflow

Snowflake DCM

Apache Kafka

Datadog

Alation

Cloudability

Terraform

Job description

Qantas Airways is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to lead the evolution of its enterprise data platforms at Mascot Campus. The role will drive design, delivery and governance of scalable, secure data solutions across the organisation, partnering with senior stakeholders to translate business requirements into cloud-based platforms.

You will mentor engineers, review architectures, and champion engineering excellence, continuous improvement and knowledge sharing within the Data & Analytics