• Work from anywhere in Australia
• Great company culture and dynamic team
• Lots of learning and development along with career growth
• Long term 24 months FTC with a view to extension

The Data Engineer role will be responsible for ingesting data into our modern data platform, assembling large, complex datasets and providing frameworks and services for operating on that data, enabling the business to deliver on reporting, dashboarding, marketing and advanced analytics initiatives.

Your proven experience working on cloud based modern data platforms will be highly regarded in this role. This background teamed with superior communication skills will ensure you build and manage effective stakeholder relationships, enabling the successful delivery of data initiatives.

The role requires effective relationship management across numerous internal and external stakeholders and service providers, ensuring alignment across various business drivers and objectives.

Key Responsibilities :

• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, reducing cost through efficiency gains etc. ;
• Review, test and recommend new technologies periodically to ensure we remain aware of the forefront of technology ;
• Develop robust data pipelines and tools making critical business data available to other teams ;
• Support both agile and waterfall ways of working minimising contention between teams ;
• Data migration to support data transformation programs of work ;
• Ingest data into our modern data platform, assemble large, complex datasets, and provide frameworks and services for operating on that data.

Skills & Experience :

• Experience in design, creation and optimisation of data pipelines ;
• Desirable to have knowledge of advanced analytics, Machine Learning and AI across broad sets of data ;
• Hands on experience building processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management ;
• Working experience with cloud-based, modern data platforms, open source big data tools and DevOps environment ;
• Experience providing technical leadership and mentoring other engineers for best practices on data engineering ;
• It is desirable to have AWS, Azure, Snowflake, Databricks, Python, Spark, Informatica skills ;
• Demonstrable proficiency in, at least, one modern programming language such as Java or Python.

Virgin Australia Group is a major Australian airline group that operates domestic and international passenger services, charter and cargo services, and the award-winning loyalty program Velocity Frequent Flyer. The Group has been a competitor in the Australian aviation landscape for more than 20 years.

2021 is an exciting time for Virgin Australia as our tourism industry begins to recover from the impact of COVID-19. The Group took flight under new ownership last year, with a renewed sense of identity and focus on its mid-market heartland. We are ramping up our flying schedule as border restrictions ease, refreshing our offering to our core customers, and continuing to deliver the uniquely Virgin customer experience Australians know and love.

We’re a winning team and we attract the best: challengers, innovators, and seriously fun individuals with big hearts. At Virgin Australia Group, we pride ourselves on recruiting the right people to join our team and help us rise to the challenges ahead. No matter our role – we are united by our ambition to be the most loved airline in Australia, and always go one step further for our customers, colleagues and our wider community.

For the health and safety of staff and guests, Virgin Australia has implemented a mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination Policy. New staff will be required to comply with the Policy which includes being vaccinated against COVID-19 prior to 31 March 2022 and providing Virgin Australia with evidence of your vaccination status.

Application close : 15 Jan 2022 AUS Eastern Daylight Time.