Full time

Staff Data Engineer

Posted by Optus • Australia, New South Wales, Australia

📍 Australia, New South Wales 🕒 March 01, 2026

About the Role

Optus is an Australian telecommunications company, delivering more than 11 million services to our customers every day across mobile, broadband and digital solutions.

We’re looking for a Staff Data Engineer to join our Data Engineering Centre of Excellence (CoE). This is a senior technical role that blends hands-on engineering with strategic leadership. You’ll help shape the future of our enterprise data platform by driving standards, reusable frameworks, and scalable solutions across multiple domains.

Your day to day will consist of

  • Defining and evolving data engineering best practices and reusable assets.
  • Providing hands-on technical direction for complex data initiatives.
  • Leading technical design reviews and approving major decisions.
  • Partnering with platform teams to implement CI/CD, automation, and testing frameworks.
  • Consulting with delivery teams on architecture, modelling, a...

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