Data Engineering Jobs in Australia
There are 1,704 open Data Engineering jobs in Australia on freehire right now. 589 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$825 | A$950 | A$1,060 | 17 |
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 30%
How the work is done
- Hybrid 265 · 16%
- Onsite 34 · 2%
- Remote 18 · 1%
Visa sponsorship offered in 14% of the 93 postings that state a position on it.
Seniority
- Senior 565
- Lead 231
- Principal 39
- Staff 34
- 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
Position: Principal Data Engineer New
Principal Data Engineer at REA Group designs and oversees large-scale data systems for Australia’s leading property platform, ensuring reliable pipelines and high-quality data delivery for millions of users.
Senior Data Engineer - Real-Time Pipelines & Costing
Senior Data Engineer builds and scales real-time data pipelines for trading research, optimizing processing and infrastructure costs to support data-driven decisions.
GCP Data Engineer — Build Scalable Cloud Pipelines
Designs and optimizes scalable data pipelines on Google Cloud using BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, and Cloud Composer to deliver organizational insights.
Senior Data Engineer: Scalable Pipelines & Cloud Platforms
Designs and maintains scalable data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes on Azure, ensuring data quality and performance for analytics and automation.
Senior Data Engineer - Hybrid Sydney | Databricks & Cloud
Designs, builds, and maintains scalable data pipelines and platforms using Databricks, Python/Scala, and SQL in multi-cloud environments.
Senior Databricks Data Engineer – Advanced Analytics
Senior Data Engineer builds and maintains trusted data models and pipelines on Azure Databricks to power regulatory analytics and decision-making for NSW government.
Data Engineer - Greenfield Enterprise Platform (DBT, Snowflake)
Build a new enterprise data platform using Data Vault, DBT Core, Snowflake, Python and Streamlit for a climate-focused product company.
Data Engineering Lead & Client Solutions Strategist
Lead data engineering projects for clients using Databricks and Snowflake, advising on cloud and data solutions while managing teams and client relationships.
Senior Solutions Architect - Data Engineering & Lakehouse
Design and implement large-scale data engineering and lakehouse architectures on Databricks, guiding customers through cloud data transformations and BI workloads.
Senior Data Engineering Leader - Cloud & API Architect
Lead a team of 10–15 engineers to design secure, cloud-native API architectures and drive enterprise-wide data transformation for a retail and hospitality group.
Data Engineering Lead, Azure Databricks Platform
Lead a team building scalable data pipelines on Azure Databricks using Python, SQL, and Azure services like ADF/ADLS/Azure SQL.
Azure Data Platform Lead - Modern Data Engineering
Lead the design and implementation of scalable Azure-based data platforms for a financial services company, focusing on Microsoft Fabric, data pipelines, modeling, governance, and Power BI analytics.
Data Engineering Lead - Azure, Fabric, SQL, PowerBI
Lead the design and delivery of Azure and Microsoft Fabric-based data platforms, building scalable pipelines and models to power analytics and reporting for a financial-services organization.
GCP Data Engineer for Scalable ELT/ETL & DataOps
Designs and builds scalable GCP data pipelines and platforms using ELT/ETL and DataOps practices to support analytics and automation.
GCP Data Engineer & Modelling Specialist (BigQuery)
Designs and builds scalable data models and pipelines on Google Cloud Platform using BigQuery to power analytics and reporting for a financial services company.
GCP Data Engineer & Modeller | BigQuery & Data Vault
Designs and optimizes Google Cloud data pipelines and models in BigQuery to support analytics and reporting for a financial services company.
Senior Data Engineer — Snowflake & ELT/ETL, Hybrid
Designs and maintains scalable ELT/ETL pipelines, models data, and supports AI/ML initiatives for RACV’s enterprise data platform in Melbourne.
GCP Data Engineer/Modeller for BigQuery Analytics
Builds and optimizes Google Cloud data pipelines and BigQuery models to power analytics and ML-driven decisions for a financial services company.
GCP Data Engineer/Modeller - BigQuery Analytics
Design and build Google BigQuery-based data models and pipelines for enterprise analytics, transforming complex source systems into scalable, high-quality data assets.