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
Data Engineering and Analytics Lead
Great data platforms don't just store information. They help organisations make better decisions, improve services and unlock new opportunities through AI and analytics. The Australian Renewable Energy Agency…
Senior Data Engineering Architect — Cloud Pipelines
Designs and builds cloud-based data pipelines and architectures for client projects, focusing on ingestion, processing, storage, and analytics while ensuring scalability, security, and automation.
Senior Data Analyst: Analytics & Data Engineering Lead
Leads data engineering and analytics for robotics/automation in medical device manufacturing, building cloud-based reporting and advising executives.
Data Platform Technical Lead
Blackroc is partnering with a major Queensland organisation undertaking a significant enterprise-wide transformation of its data and analytics capabilities. As part of a multi-year strategic initiative, we are seeking…
Data Engineer (Melbourne or Sydney)
Job Description: Data Engineer (ETL / Integration) @ Melbourne or Sydney Number of Positions: 5 | Location: Melbourne or Sydney, Australia | Work Rights: Candidates must be based in Australia with full work rights |…
GCP Data Engineer: BigQuery, Dataflow & Streaming Pipelines
NCS Australia is seeking a Data Engineer to design and scale massive data pipelines on Google Cloud Platform. You will transform raw, high-volume data into structured insights powering product analytics and…
Senior Data Engineer: Fabric, PySpark & SQL
Designs and maintains a centralised data warehouse for Commonwealth Bank using Microsoft Fabric, PySpark, and SQL, ensuring scalable data solutions and secure data sharing across the organisation.
Senior Data Engineer - Informatica IDMC, AI Pipelines
Leads a team of 7 data engineers to design AI-driven ETL/ELT pipelines with IDMC/Python for a major banking client, focusing on cloud modernization and regulatory compliance.
Senior Data Engineer (Microsoft Fabric, PySpark, SQL)
Build and maintain a centralised Microsoft Fabric data warehouse using PySpark and SQL to deliver trusted, analytics-ready data products for CommBank’s internal technology insights.
Data Platform Engineer: Snowflake & Azure | Hybrid Sydney
Builds and maintains ELT pipelines in Snowflake/Azure, develops dbt models, and designs data structures to support analytics and AI initiatives.
Data Engineer: Image & Video ML-Ready Pipelines
Build and maintain ETL pipelines that process raw image/video data into clean, structured datasets for machine learning training in Melbourne.
Research Data Engineer - Infectious Diseases AI
Build and optimize data pipelines for infectious disease research, integrating biological/clinical datasets to enable AI-driven analytics and support pandemic therapeutics development at a leading university institute.
Azure Data Engineer: Spark, Databricks & CI/CD Lead
Kaizen Global Technologies in Melbourne, Australia is seeking an Azure Data Engineer to design and implement scalable cloud data solutions using Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Spark, and SQL/T-SQL. The role emphasizes…
Staff Data Engineer - AI-Driven Customer Data Platforms
Designs and leads cloud-native data platforms to power AI-driven customer experiences at a major bank.
Data Engineer — Hybrid Pipelines & BI (Melbourne)
Builds and maintains data pipelines using Snowflake, dbt, and Fivetran to enable analytics and reporting with Power BI, ensuring scalable and cost-efficient cloud solutions for data-driven decision-making.
Azure Data Engineer
Seeking a Azure Data Engineer with strong expertise in Azure data engineering, Databricks, Spark, Data Factory, SQL/T-SQL, and CI/CD to build and support scalable cloud data solutions. Key Responsibilities Design,…
Azure Data Engineer - Hybrid, Enterprise-Scale Pipelines
Design and maintain scalable Azure data pipelines to enable data-driven decisions, using SQL, Python, and Azure Data Factory.
Marketing Data Engineer: Automate Data Workflows & Insights
Designs and supports automated data workflows for marketing and customer systems, bridging data, engineering, and marketing teams to deliver scalable solutions in a fintech context.