Principal Data Engineer — Hybrid, Travel Benefits

Qantas; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 190,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Staff Travel Benefits from Day One!

Hybrid working options

Job summary

Qantas is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to lead enterprise data platforms and engineering capabilities. You will shape strategy, mentor engineers, and drive scalable cloud-based data solutions with a focus on reliability, security and cost-efficiency.

You will partner with architects and senior stakeholders to translate requirements into actionable data initiatives and establish engineering standards across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in data engineering within large enterprise environments.
• Proven leadership of enterprise-scale data initiatives and technical strategy.
• Expert-level Snowflake architecture, security, governance and performance.
• Advanced AWS and cloud-native data architectures experience.
• Deep SQL and Python with DevOps practices.
• Experience with Apache Airflow orchestration.
• Infrastructure-as-code using Terraform.
• FinOps leadership including cost attribution and forecasting.
• Experience integrating SaaS, APIs, networks and legacy sources.
• Delivery oversight across internal and partner teams with governance.
• Data quality, observability, data contracts; incident response and RCA; strong stakeholder engagement.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture reviews and set technical direction for data platforms.
• Mentor engineers and foster a culture of engineering excellence.
• Collaborate with Architects, Delivery Leads and stakeholders on enterprise initiatives.
• Drive adoption of cloud data architectures and modern tooling.
• Ensure data quality, observability and cost-efficiency across platforms.

Skills

Data engineering

Leadership

SQL

Python

Airflow

dbt core

Snowflake

AWS

Terraform

FinOps

Data governance

Observability

Mentoring

Stakeholder mgmt

Tools

Snowflake

Apache Airflow

Datadog

Alation

Cloudability

Kafka

Terraform

Job description

Qantas is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to lead enterprise data platforms and engineering capabilities. You will shape strategy, mentor engineers, and drive scalable cloud-based data solutions with a focus on reliability, security and cost-efficiency.

You will partner with architects and senior stakeholders to translate requirements into actionable data initiatives and establish engineering standards across the organisation.