Engineering Lead

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Qantas is seeking an Engineering Lead for its Qantas Loyalty unit in Mascot Sydney, a permanent on-site role guiding a data and cloud engineering team to deliver high performing, secure, scalable solutions across loyalty platforms using AWS, Databricks, Airflow and Teradata. You’ll own the full delivery lifecycle from discovery to deployment, mentor engineers, and champion modern software practices while balancing technical leadership with clear cross functional communication. The ideal candidate has 10+ years in data systems, strong ETL/ELT and SQL on Teradata, data modeling (3NF, Star Schema, Data Vault) and proven leadership. To apply, tailor your CV to quantify impact, showcase real time data projects and migration work, and demonstrate how your work aligned with business goals. Application closes February 16, 2026.

Company Description

Founded in the Queensland outback in 1920, Qantas has grown to be Australia’s largest regional, domestic, and international airline. Qantas has a range of subsidiary businesses that support the overall operations of the Group. The Qantas Group’s main business is the transportation of customers and freight using two complementary airline brands — Qantas and Jetstar — operating regional, domestic, and international services.

Job Description

• Challenge yourself & add significant value to Qantas Group 
• At Qantas Loyalty, our teams come together to create new and unique customer experiences 
• Permanent role based at our Mascot Campus.  

Qantas Loyalty is a high performing business and has a history of launching exciting new brands and services that make a difference to its millions of Frequent Flyer and Business Rewards members. Qantas Frequent Flyer and Qantas Business Rewards remain at the core of the program, while the business has evolved to include a number of new ventures and other businesses such as Qantas Money, Qantas Insurance, Qantas Hotels & Holidays, Qantas Marketplace and Qantas Wine. 

As an Engineering Lead for Qantas Loyalty, you will be responsible for driving the delivery of high‑performing, secure, and scalable data and cloud solutions that support core Loyalty platforms. You will lead and mentor a team of engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement. 

The Engineering Lead will use deep expertise in AWS, Databricks, Airflow, Teradata, and modern CI/CD practices, you will shape the technical direction of the team and oversee the full delivery lifecycle from discovery and planning through to development, deployment, and ongoing optimization.  

The role works closely with product managers, architects, and cross‑functional stakeholders, you will ensure that technical solutions align with business priorities and delivers features that align with business goals.

You’ll have:  

• 10 + years of overall experience in systems development and implementation. 
• Experience in leading and mentoring data engineering teams, promoting growth, ownership, and technical excellence. 
• Communicate technical requirements across business and cross‑functional teams. 
• Build and improve tooling, automation, and development processes to enhance productivity and delivery consistency. 
• Strong hands‑on expertise across cloud, web, and data engineering technologies, with proven capability in data governance, data security and data migration. 
• Strong knowledge of Data Modeling (3NF, Star Schema, Data Vault) 
• Strong experience in ETL/ELT and SQL scripting, preferably on Teradata (TCF/GCFR, database functions and stored procedures, Teradata utilities, performance tuning) 
• Strong experience in Airflow and CI/CD tools (GitHub/Jenkins preferred) 
• Experience in Python (or similar) programming for implementing data engineering frameworks and pipelines 
• Experience in building pipelines for ingesting streaming, real time or near real time events data. 
• Lead the team across multiple projects and contribute to migration, ensuring stable, secure, and scalable solutions. 
• Diagnose and resolve complex technical problems, ensuring system reliability and performance. 
• Champion modern software engineering practices, coding standards, CI/CD, and quality‑driven delivery. 
• Develop, deploy, debug, and test high‑quality solutions using established data engineering patterns and architectures. 
• Balance deep technical capability with strong communication tailored to varied audiences. 
• Maintain a detail‑oriented, quality‑focused approach with a commitment to continuous improvement. 
• Provide approachable, collaborative leadership that supports mentoring, coaching, and capability uplift.    

Why Qantas?   

If you’re successful in your application, 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 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 and additional purchased leave options.    
• 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 for everything from motor vehicles to electronic devices.   
• We’ll support your wellbeing: Whether its learning to better support your own and others’ mental health, our interactive wellbeing app or your very own tailored nutrition plan.   

Qantas is an equal opportunity employer, so by coming to work for us, you’ll be part of an organisation that encourages diversity, supports charities and environmental initiatives. We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, and people of all backgrounds to apply.  

Be a part of something special and play your part in the Qantas story – get in touch today.  

Advertising closes on 16th February 2026