Data Engineering Jobs in Australia
There are 1,697 open Data Engineering jobs in Australia on freehire right now. 605 of them were posted recently. The skills employers ask for most often are data-pipelines, cloud and analytics.
Salary
| Currency | Period | 25th | Median | 75th | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AUD | year | A$131,693 | A$150,000 | A$170,000 | 49 |
| AUD | day | A$856 | A$1,000 | A$1,070 | 16 |
From postings that disclose pay. Currencies are counted separately, never converted.
Most requested skills
- data-pipelines 46%
- cloud 45%
- analytics 44%
- sql 42%
- data-engineering 41%
- python 34%
- azure 31%
- data-quality 29%
How the work is done
- Hybrid 262 · 15%
- Onsite 32 · 2%
- Remote 19 · 1%
Visa sponsorship offered in 14% of the 93 postings that state a position on it.
Seniority
- Senior 561
- Lead 231
- Principal 39
- Staff 35
- Middle 27
- C-level 13
Who is hiring
- 1000+ employees 185
- 501-1000 employees 97
- 51-200 employees 35
- 11-50 employees 16
- 201-500 employees 5
- 1-10 employees 3
Senior Data Engineer & Hands-On Tech Leader
The Senior Data Engineer will lead architectural strategy and mentor a team while remaining hands-on with coding in Azure, Synapse, Terraform, and Python. This role involves delivering strategic data initiatives for enterprise clients and contributing to business development.
Senior Data Engineer, Enterprise Data & Analytics
The Senior Data Engineer will design, build, and maintain enterprise-scale data platforms and pipelines to support data-driven decision-making at Healius. The role involves managing Kubernetes environments, implementing CI/CD and DevOps practices, and overseeing data governance and security.
Senior Data Engineer - Azure Platform Lead
Lead the design and implementation of Azure-based data platforms for Rabobank Australia, enabling scalable analytics and data-driven decisions.
Geospatial Data Engineer - Modernization & Analytics
The Geospatial Data Engineer will design and maintain robust data pipelines and spatial databases to support government environmental initiatives. The role focuses on data governance, security, and the development of analytics tools to provide actionable spatial insights.
Azure Data Engineer: Insights & Cloud Analytics
The Azure Data Engineer will develop and optimize data environments for the ACT Smart Lighting business, transforming operational data into insights using Azure and Power BI. The role involves building automated reporting and KPI dashboards to support data-driven decision-making.
Senior Data Engineer: Cloud Pipelines & Leadership (Hybrid)
The Senior Data Engineer will design and implement scalable data pipelines and ensure secure data governance within a government environment. The role involves leading data initiatives and supporting analytics and BI reporting using cloud platforms.
Lead Data Engineer - NV1 Clearance, Cloud & ETL
The Lead Data Engineer will provide technical leadership for data delivery teams, focusing on the design and maintenance of ETL processes and analytical datasets. This role requires an active NV1 security clearance and involves hands-on development and implementation across enterprise data platforms.
AI-Driven Data Engineer on Google Cloud
The Data Engineer will design and build production-grade AI and data solutions on Google Cloud to optimize stock, demand forecasting, and supply chain operations. The role involves managing data pipelines, feature engineering, and model deployment using Python, Vertex AI, and BigQuery.
Senior Data Engineer - Azure Databricks & Data Governance
The Senior Data Engineer will design and optimize scalable data pipelines using Azure Data Factory, Databricks, and Spark. The role focuses on delivering clean datasets for analytics while ensuring compliance with financial services data governance and security standards.
Senior Data Engineer, GCP/BigQuery & dbt
Senior Data Engineer building scalable data pipelines on GCP/BigQuery using Python, SQL, and dbt to enable analytics, reporting, and AI initiatives for a large-scale data foundation program.
Hybrid Snowflake Data Engineer - Phase 1 Platform Build
Design and build Snowflake/AWS data pipelines, transformations, and governed data exposure for a university’s strategic data program.
Senior Data Engineer: Scale Global Data Platform
Senior Data Engineer owning and scaling a multi-brand data platform, building production pipelines with Google BigQuery and dbt, and implementing ELT processes with Fivetran.
Senior Data Engineer: AWS to Databricks Migration
Senior Data Engineer leading an AWS-to-Databricks migration, making architecture decisions and building greenfield data solutions with a cloud-native, SRE-focused approach in a hybrid role.
Machine Learning / Data Engineer
Hybrid ML/Data Engineer building end-to-end machine learning solutions—from data ingestion and feature engineering through modelling to production deployment—using Python and SQL in Sydney.
Senior Machine Learning / Data Engineer
Hybrid ML/Data Engineer building production ML solutions across the full lifecycle—from data ingestion and feature engineering through model development, deployment, and monitoring—using Python, SQL, and modern data frameworks.
Data Engineer
Build and maintain scalable ETL/ELT workflows using Informatica, BigQuery, SQL, and Python in a 12-month Melbourne-based contract role.
Staff Data Engineer: AWS Java Real-Time Data
Lead design and delivery of a cloud-based credit risk data domain using AWS, Java, and real-time data tech while modernizing legacy systems.
Senior Data Engineer
Design, build and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines in Databricks on AWS, integrating SaaS platforms and implementing data quality and observability frameworks to power enterprise analytics and AI workloads.
Data Engineer | Informatica & BigQuery
Builds and maintains scalable data pipelines using Informatica and BigQuery, focusing on cloud migration and data quality while writing SQL and Python scripts.