Senior Data Modeller

Qantas Airways; Greenlawn (NY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading airline is seeking a Senior Data Modeller to join their Data & Analytics team in New York. This role emphasizes innovation and technical leadership, requiring strong data modelling skills and the ability to collaborate across teams, driving business outcomes while ensuring data quality and compliance. Benefits include travel discounts, paid parental leave, and wellness support.

Benefits

Staff Travel Benefits

Flexible leave options including parental leave

Access to thousands of rewards and discounts

Support for wellbeing including mental health resources

Qualifications

• 5+ years relevant data modelling experience.
• Expert-level proficiency in SQL and data modelling tools.
• Strong understanding of data modelling concepts and principles.

Responsibilities

• Implement enterprise-grade data models and establish organizational best practices.
• Collaborate with teams to translate analytical business requirements into scalable data models.
• Provide technical leadership in problem design and ensure data quality.

Skills

Data Modelling

SQL

Analytical Skills

Problem-Solving

Teamwork

Education

Tertiary degree in computer science or related field

Tools

ERWIN

Data Visualisation tools like Power BI

AWS

Azure

Job description

Job Description

• Exciting opportunity within our Data & Analytics team
• Permanent, full-time roles working at our Mascot Campus (hybrid working options available)
• Staff Travel Benefits from Day One!

The Senior Data Modeller will leverage their expertise in data modelling to drive innovation and guide technical direction for Architects, Delivery Leads, and Product Owners. In this hands-on role, you will implement enterprise-grade data models while establishing organisational best practices.

As part of a Delivery Team focused on delivering data solutions across the business, you’ll use Data Modelling Tools and Confluence to document models and design scalable, reusable solutions. A true team player, you’ll take pride in validating your models through hands-on data analysis, querying and ensuring engineers have clear, actionable tasks. Your focus will remain on delivering business outcomes while supporting your team with deep technical expertise..

The Senior Data Modeller will provide support and technical leadership in problem design, and implement logical and physical data models with built-in data quality checks to guarantee accuracy, consistency, and reliability. You will develop and maintain Entity Relationship Diagrams in data modelling tools such as ERWIN, ER/Studio or similar tools that accurately represent our data models.

You will collaborate closely with Data Engineers, Technical Business Analysts, Delivery Leads, Product Owners and Visualization Engineers to understand analytical business requirements and translate them into robust, scalable data models.

What you will bring:

• 5+ years relevant data modelling experience
• Tertiary degree (or equivalent experience) in a highly analytical discipline (e.g. computer science, engineering)
• Expert-level proficiency in SQL and data modelling tools, particularly ERWIN
• Strong expertise in creating and maintaining logical and physical data models
• Strong understanding and knowledge of data modelling documentation, such as source to target mapping, business matrix, data dictionary and other data modelling artefacts
• Deep understanding of data modelling concepts and principles, including dimensional modelling, 3NF modelling, data warehousing, and data governance
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing data models for new data use cases
• Solid understanding of data quality, security, and compliance standards
• Familiarity with data warehousing concepts and tools, and data visualisation tools such as Power BI
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and their data storage services
• Strong product mindset to build data products, focusing on customer needs, continuous value delivery, and operational excellence
• Agile mindset with experience working in an agile team, with a flexible working style either working independently or part of cross functional teams
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to communicate highly technical information to non-technical stakeholders
• Excellent analytical skills and ability to learn with minimal oversight, critical thinking skills with an analytical mindset
• Experience in mentoring and leading data modellers with technical direction
• Strong teamwork, adaptability, and a proactive approach to problem-solving. Proven ability to navigate ambiguity and demonstrate resilience

Why Qantas?

You’ll join a team where creativity and passion are encouraged. Our people come together to allow us to dream big and deliver successfully.

There are many different opportunities across our team, which means you’ll be able to grow both personally and professionally at Qantas. Your development is a priority for us – so that you can maintain the high standards our customers have come to expect and can continue to develop over time. You’ll be supported from day 1 with on the job training and coaching as well as our formal training opportunities. While you may start in this role, we’ve got a great track record of supporting our people to take their career in so many different directions, the destinations are endless.

The Qantas employee benefits program offers amazing benefits that extend well beyond travel:

• We love to travel: Enjoy heavily discounted air travel within Australia and across the globe, both for you and your family and friends, as well as exclusive deals on accommodation and holidays.
• We have flexible leave options: Make use of leave and flexible working opportunities including 18 weeks paid parental leave (plus superannuation payments on all paid and unpaid parental leave until your child turns 1) and additional purchased leave options for eligible employees.
• We’ll give you access to thousands of rewards: Through our partnerships we can offer you discounts across shopping, food and wine, insurance, health and wellbeing, leisure and entertainment. You can also take advantage of our salary packaging program including motor vehicles, eligible portable electronic devices and professional memberships.
• We’ll support your wellbeing: Whether it’s learning to better support your own and others’ mental health, our interactive wellbeing app or your very own tailored nutrition plan.

Applications will close by 27th of June