Data Platform Engineer

Perth Airport is Australia’s Western Hub connecting the people, businesses and communities of Western Australia with the rest of Australia and the world. Operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week throughout the year, Perth Airport plays a significant role in providing economic, social and cultural benefits to West Australians.

Perth Airport is investing more than $5 billion in new infrastructure so we can support our airline partners to grow, offering more services to new destinations and an improved customer experience. This will be the largest funded private equity build in Western Australia for the last 30 years.

Over the coming decade we will expand T1 International, and build new domestic terminal facilities, a parallel runway, two multi-storey carparks and our first airport hotel. This will deliver one airport for the people of Western Australia which will host all flight services in a central location giving passengers a seamless, world-class travel experience.

The Perth Airport estate is spread over 2100 hectares and has developed a $1.5 billion portfolio of existing industrial premises and significant vacant land holdings.

We service a truly diverse community and play an important role in strengthening cultural, family and social bonds while supporting business, tourism and leisure travel.

What you'll do:

Our Technology team is looking for a Data Platform Engineer. In this role, you will be responsible for maintaining and evolving Perth Airport’s Azure Fabric Data Platform, ensuring it is stable, reliable, scalable, and secure to meet the business’s growing needs, along with the following:

• Oversee the operation, optimisation, and security of the Azure Fabric Data Platform
• Design, manage, and optimise data pipelines, storage, and compute resources to support analytics, reporting, and APIs
• Collaborate with analysts, engineers, business teams, and vendors to improve data delivery and usability
• Implement standards for data quality, governance, documentation, and access control
• Monitor system health, costs, and performance, applying improvements to maximise efficiency
• Provide training and support to strengthen data literacy and self-service capability across the airport
• Ensure compliance with WHS and data governance requirements, protecting sensitive and regulated information

About you:

To be successful in securing this opportunity, you will have the following:

• A relevant tertiary qualification or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of experience designing, building, and managing data platforms and data product workloads
• Strong skills in Python, SQL, PowerShell, Power Query, and cloud-native data integration
• Demonstrated experience with Microsoft Azure technologies (Fabric, SQL Server, OneLake, Fabric Data Factory, Purview, DevOps, Apache Spark)
• Proven experience building and managing resilient data pipelines across ERP, IoT, and SaaS applications
• Strong knowledge of data governance, metadata management, and data quality frameworks
• Experience with Agile, ITIL, and DevOps practices
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate across teams and explain technical concepts clearly
• A problem-solver who can adapt in a fast-paced environment while maintaining focus and integrity

About Us:

We offer a dynamic and supportive team culture, a contemporary workplace with great facilities and a modern approach to work/life integration. Our competitive remuneration package comes with additional company benefits including free parking.

Perth Airport is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We are committed to building an equitable and diverse workforce representative of the community we serve. We encourage and welcome applications from all communities and backgrounds.

Doing the right thing by the planet and future generations is important to us. At PAPL we place a strong emphasis on embedding sustainability throughout our business strategy and operations. We remain steadfast in our commitment to driving ESPG (Environmental, Social, People, Governance) performance across our value chain and areas that have material environmental and social impact.

If this sounds like you please get in touch.