AI-First Data Engineer: Secure Pipelines (Hybrid)

Vista Group; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

4.5 day week

Hybrid work (1–2 days in office)

Medical insurance

Life insurance

Volunteer day

Parental leave

Mentoring & career development

Team events

Job summary

Vista Group is seeking an intermediate Software Engineer focused on AI-first delivery in Auckland, NZ. You’ll join the data engineering team to design and implement data pipelines, services, and platform capabilities that connect data across Vista’s systems to enable AI-enabled workflows.

You’ll spend about 20% on analysis and design and 80% on implementation, building secure, observable, and scalable production systems for Vista’s AI capabilities and operational decision-making.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience delivering production systems.
• Experience with Python, TypeScript, APIs, data pipelines, or distributed services.
• Experience using AI tools to design, generate, test, review, and operate software.
• Clear written and verbal communication, with precise problem description.
• Experience with relational databases, data modelling, metadata, and cloud platforms.
• Understanding of observability, monitoring, automated testing, CI/CD, and DevOps.
• Sound judgment around security, privacy, governance, and access control.
• Ability to work independently in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
• Ability to manage several tasks/workstreams in parallel.
• Practical engineering approach with focus on delivery and reusable patterns.
• Experience with AI orchestration, agents, event-driven systems, or large-scale data processing is valuable.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate reliable data ingestion pipelines across APIs, events, databases, files, and third-party platforms.
• Build services, integrations, and reusable tooling using Python, TypeScript, and established patterns.
• Use AI-first engineering practices to design, develop, test, document, and operate production systems.
• Create secure and observable interfaces for copilots, agents, automation, and decision-support workflows.
• Help build unified views of Vista’s customer and business operations.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, auditability, failure handling, and data quality controls.
• Apply security, privacy, access control, and responsible AI practices throughout the lifecycle.
• Manage multiple workstreams in parallel with self-direction and accountability.
• Contribute to improving Vista’s data engineering architecture and platform patterns.

Skills

Software engineering fundamentals

Python

TypeScript

APIs

Data pipelines

AI tools usage

Clear communication

Relational databases

Data modelling

Cloud platforms

Observability

CI/CD

DevOps

Security & privacy

Independent work

Multi-tasking

AI orchestration

Education

Job description

Vista Group is seeking an intermediate Software Engineer focused on AI-first delivery in Auckland, NZ. You’ll join the data engineering team to design and implement data pipelines, services, and platform capabilities that connect data across Vista’s systems to enable AI-enabled workflows.

You’ll spend about 20% on analysis and design and 80% on implementation, building secure, observable, and scalable production systems for Vista’s AI capabilities and operational decision-making.