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
Google Data Engineer - GCP
At NCS Australia, we believe in doing technology services better. Our commitment to quality, focus on people, and willingness to challenge traditional thinking set us apart. Our team brings this belief to life by…
Senior Data Engineer – Admissions Transformation (Hybrid)
Builds and maintains data pipelines for UNSW’s admissions systems, ensuring reliable data ingestion, transformation, and alignment with business needs using data engineering, modeling, and DevOps principles.
Senior Data Engineer: Real-Time Lakehouse & Pipelines
Builds and maintains real-time data pipelines on AWS/Snowflake/Databricks to enable analytics for APAC teams, optimizing performance and scalability for product and data science use.
Data Engineer
Designs and optimizes data pipelines, SQL Server databases, and analytics solutions using Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, and SQL Server to support business reporting and decision-making.
Data Engineer: ETL & Data Pipelines (Melbourne/Sydney)
Viable Solutions Pty Ltd seeks 5 Data Engineers to design, build, and operate ETL pipelines moving data between sources and downstream consumers in Melbourne or Sydney. Roles involve secure delivery via SFTP, handling…
Lead Data Engineer
Lead a team to design and maintain scalable data pipelines for a federal government client in Canberra, using Spark, Elastic, and Solr to process and analyze diverse data sources.
*AWS Data Engineer*
Designs and maintains data pipelines and architectures on AWS to extract insights and support business decisions, bridging technical and non-technical stakeholders while delivering scalable solutions for clients.
Azure Data Engineer
Builds and maintains Azure-based data pipelines, pipelines, and cloud data solutions; works with Python, SQL, and Azure tools like Databricks and Synapse to optimize data workflows and collaborate with stakeholders.
Data Engineer (Marketing)
Builds and maintains automated data workflows for marketing systems, integrating customer data and platforms to support analytics, personalization, and campaign execution using SQL, JavaScript, and no-code tools.
Senior Data Engineer - Data Platform
Designs and builds scalable data pipelines and lakehouse architectures on AWS, Snowflake, and Databricks to enable real-time and batch data processing, integrating internal/external sources for Domain-CoStar’s APAC property tech products and analytics teams.
Lead Data Engineer - Informatica
Lead a team of 7 data engineers to design, automate, and modernize banking data pipelines using Informatica IDMC, Python, and AI-driven tools while ensuring cloud migration and compliance.
Senior Data Engineer - ATP
Design and build scalable data pipelines on Azure/Databricks to transform admissions data into dashboards and reports for UNSW leadership and government compliance.
Data Engineer
Builds and maintains ELT pipelines in Snowflake/dbt/Azure to integrate operational, ecommerce, and legacy data into analytics-ready datasets, resolving quality issues and shaping data standards for reporting, AI, and BI tools.
GCP Data Engineer
Design, develop, and optimize data solutions on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), building scalable data pipelines using services like BigQuery, DataFlow (Apache Beam), and Cloud Storage.
Technical Lead - Data Engineering (HR Data Platform)
Market leading company Sydney CBD $110/130k super About the Role You'll lead the technical design and delivery of an HR data platform for one of Australia's largest universities. This is a high-impact leadership role…