Senior Visualisation Engineer

Company Description

About Us

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

• Exciting opportunity within our Data Domain
• Working on challenging and exciting initiatives
• Permanent role working at our Mascot office (hybrid working options available)

As a Senior Visualisation Engineer at Qantas, you’ll do more than just build dashboards - you will work with the business to create compelling narratives that empower our teams to make smarter decisions with a best-in-class user experience when it comes to Data Visualisation. Leveraging your deep technical expertise in Power BI, you will know the best ways to optimise any solution from data preparation to the actual implementation of visualisations. With your expertise in Storytelling with Data, you will design inspiring solutions and, educate our Visualisation Engineering community and our business about the power of Storytelling with Data.

As a senior team member, you will work with the Architect, Delivery Lead, and Product Owner to champion best practices across the analytics landscape. You will mentor others, set technical standards, and work hands-on in the end-to-end lifecycle of data insights. The role will provide guidance on optimising solutions to a large user base, ensuring scalability and accessibility while keeping to data governance top of mind. f you thrive at the intersection of creativity, technical excellence, we want you to help shape the way we share, engage and breath data.

Key Responsibilities:

• Prioritising user & customer experience by analysing stakeholder feedback and consumption of data
• Translating business requirements into technical specifications for implementation
• Sourcing, transforming, cleansing and interrogating data across multiple Data Platforms
• Work closely with the business to design solutions, presenting design options and defining the best technical solutions to implement their ideas
• Mentoring juniors and educating our business in the use of our visualisation solutions
• Ensuring adherence to Data Governance, Data Protection and Management frameworks
• Act as a bridge between technical teams and non-technical stakeholders
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions
• Participate in managing the demand pipeline in accordance with the Domain’s Prioritisation Framework
• Creating a supportive environment for Visualisation Engineers and Analysts to grow
• Encouraging business stakeholders to use data to make better decisions

You’ll have:

• 5+ years’ experience working in data analytics, visualisation design and development
• Expertise in data storytelling techniques and designing of dashboards.
• Expertise in data visualisation tools (Power BI preferred).
• Expertise in data sourcing, manipulation, preparation, modelling, defining refresh schedules and advanced analysis techniques (e.g. Power Query, SQL, Python, R).
• Experience bringing solutions to production and ensuring maintenance of your solutions are seamless
• Experience with educating juniors and your consumers on best practices in data visualisation and how to use your solutions
• Ability to understand broader business context and align data visualisation with strategic objectives
• Ability to communicate highly technical information to non-technical stakeholders.
• Familiarity with machine learning, AI and predictive analytics.
• Strong understanding of data quality, security, and compliance standards.
• Experience working in agile teams, collaborating with cross-functional teams
• Excellent presentation, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Previous exposure to data analytics for Finance and People department would be ideal
• Eager to continuously improve, drive and thrive team performance

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

Why Qantas?  

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 heavily 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 (plus superannuation payments on all paid and unpaid parental leave until your child turns 1) and additional purchased leave options for eligible employees.  
• 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 program including motor vehicles, eligible portable electronic devices and professional memberships.  
• We’ll support your wellbeing: Whether it’s learning to better support your own and others’ mental health, our interactive wellbeing app or your very own tailored nutrition plan. 

Applications will close by Sunday the 29th of June