Job Description

Permanent | Hybrid | Wellington or Palmerston North

About the Role

Our client is a large, well-established New Zealand organisation with a strong public purpose and a growing focus on modern, well-governed data. Its IT team supports a large and diverse community of users across multiple locations and is investing in data platforms that enable better decisions across the business.

They are looking for a senior data engineer to help shape and operate those platforms, including the data warehouse, Microsoft Fabric, Lakehouse services and data integration pipelines. You will be the go-to technical authority on design, security, performance and reliability, and will help prepare the organisation for future AI-enabled use cases.

What You'll Be Doing

Own the technical lifecycle of the data and analytics platforms, from design and build through to operation, improvement and retirement
Look after platform foundations, including