Leidos
Data Engineering Team Lead
Salary
Job description
Accrue up to an extra 12 days of leave per year through our Life Days program.
Work with world leading technology business at the forefront of innovation.
We’re a ‘Family Friendly’ certified workplace – we understand the often many and varied roles our team members need to play within their own unique family setting and actively support them.
Our team feel Leidos is a great place to work. Learn more about our culture and benefits by visiting us here https://www.leidos.com/company/global/australia/careers
Do Work That Matters
Leidos Australia delivers IT and airborne solutions that protect and advance the Australian way of life. Our 2000 local experts, backed by our global experience and network of partners, are working to solve the world’s toughest challenges in government, intelligence, defence, aviation, border protection and health markets.
Your New Role and Responsibilities
As a Data Engineering Team Lead, you will provide senior technical leadership and people management within a high-performing data and geospatial delivery environment responsible for the production, sustainment, and continuous improvement of enterprise geospatial datasets and data engineering pipelines supporting mission-critical outcomes.
Operating within secure and regulated environments, you will take accountability for the operational performance, quality, and reliability of data engineering and GIS production services delivered by your team. You will combine practitioner-level technical depth with line management responsibility to ensure delivered solutions are robust, well-governed, and aligned with customer, contractual, and regulatory requirements.
In this role, geospatial and spatiotemporal data will be a primary application domain. While you are not expected to be the primary hands-on implementer, strong transferable data engineering expertise is essential to enable informed technical decision-making, effective assurance, and credible leadership across complex dataflow and production contexts.
Key responsibilities include:
Provide day-to-day line management, leadership, and professional development for Data Engineers and GIS Production Engineers
Foster a high-performing, collaborative team culture focused on quality, accountability, and continuous improvement
Oversee workload planning, prioritisation, and delivery outcomes, ensuring timeliness, compliance, and effective risk management
Provide senior technical leadership across geospatial data engineering and GIS production workflows, including ingestion, transformation, validation, and delivery
Review and assure technical outputs, act as escalation point for complex issues, and ensure alignment with engineering, ITIL, and data governance standards
Drive continuous improvement, capability uplift, and operational maturity through mentoring, standards development, and stakeholder engagement
What You’ll Bring to Make An Impact
Demonstrated experience as a senior practitioner in data engineering, geospatial data engineering, or a related discipline
Proven experience in line management or technical leadership of engineering teams
Strong knowledge of enterprise data engineering practices within production environments
Experience providing technical review, guidance, and assurance of engineering outputs
Ability to operate under broad direction with accountability for team-level outcomes and decision-making
Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, including translating technical concepts for varied audiences
Commitment to quality, continuous improvement, and operational excellence within secure or regulated environments
Don’t worry if you don’t tick all the boxes – if you meet most of them, we encourage you to submit your application. We’re most interested in your strengths, what you want to learn and how far you want to go.
This role does requires the successful applicant to be an Australian Citizen and hold an active TSPV Clearance, accompanied by the ability to be successful for a DISA.
Diverse Team Members, Shared Values and a Common Purpose
Providing our customers with smarter solutions takes an incredible team with diversity of thought, experience and perspectives driving innovation. Inclusion is at the heart of our culture and is one of our core values. It's about creating a workplace where everyone can do important work, feels welcome, valued, and respected, and has equal access to opportunities to thrive. Paul Chase – Chief Executive, Leidos Australia.
Leidos Australia is an equal opportunities organisation and is committed to creating a truly inclusive workplace. We welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, veterans, neurodiverse people, and people of all genders, sexualities, and age groups.
Our five Advocacy Groups (Women and Allies Network, Young Professionals, Defence & Emergency Services, Action for Accessibility and Abilities and Pride+) provide an opportunity for team members to connect and collaborate on shared interests, and work to support and celebrate our diverse community.
Next Steps
To apply for this role, follow the links or apply via our Careers page.
Recruitment process - 1 virtual interview or 1 face to face, a psychometric test & background checks.
Applicants may also need to meet International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) requirements. In certain circumstances this can place limitations on persons who hold dual nationality, permanent residency or are former nationals of certain countries as per ITAR 126.1.
We are committed to making our recruitment process accessible to all candidates. Please contact our Careers team careers.au@au.leidos.com if you’d like to discuss any additional support during your application or throughout the recruitment process.
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Original Posting:
For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
Pay Range:
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.