Data Engineer

Westpac New Zealand; Auckland; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

4 weeks holiday + 5 wellbeing days

Banking benefits

Insurance discounts

Growth and development

Recognition

School holiday subsidy

Volunteer days

Job summary

Westpac New Zealand is seeking a Data Engineer to own the quality, integrity, availability and reliability of data supporting Financial Crime platforms such as NetReveal. You will design and optimise data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes and data assets that underpin risk scoring, monitoring and regulatory reporting.

You'll collaborate with AML Analytics, business stakeholders and engineers to ensure robust data assets, incident response and continuous improvement in a financial services environment.

Qualifications

• Strong SQL skills.
• Data modelling and ETL/ELT development.
• Knowledge of batch processing and data quality management.
• Experience with data reconciliation and root cause analysis.
• Exposure to incident management and production support.
• Experience in financial services or complex enterprise data environments.
• Ideally: Financial Crime/AML platforms, Oracle PL/SQL and Python.
• Knowledge of Kafka, Snowflake or Control-M.
• Cloud tech and CI/CD practices.
• Exposure to regulatory reporting and NetReveal or similar solutions.

Skills

SQL

Data modelling

ETL/ELT

Batch processing

Data quality

Data reconciliation

Incident management

Financial services

Tools

Oracle PL/SQL

Python

Kafka

Snowflake

Control-M

Job description

About the Role

This is a 12 months fixed term contract

The Data Engineer is responsible for ensuring the quality, integrity, availability, and reliability of data that supports Westpac's Financial Crime platforms, including NetReveal. This role enables critical financial crime capabilities such as Transaction Monitoring, Customer Risk Assessment (CRA), Sanctions Screening, regulatory reporting, analytics initiatives, and audit remediation activities.

What will you bring?

Working closely with business stakeholders, AML Analytics, Technical Business Analysts, Engineers, and Vendors, the Data Engineer designs, develops, supports and improves data pipelines, ETL processes, integrations and data assets that underpin financial crime controls and decision‑making.

Essential Experience

• Strong SQL skills.
• Experience with data modelling and ETL/ELT development.
• Knowledge of batch processing and data quality management.
• Experience with data reconciliation and root cause analysis.
• Exposure to incident management and production support.
• Experience working in financial services or complex enterprise data environments.

Ideally, you'll also have

• Experience with Financial Crime or AML platforms.
• Oracle PL/SQL and Python skills.
• Knowledge of Kafka, Snowflake, or Control-M.
• Experience with cloud technologies and CI/CD practices.
• Exposure to regulatory reporting environments.
• Familiarity with NetReveal or similar financial crime solutions.

Working at Westpac

In addition to immersing yourself in a supportive team environment, you'll receive some great job perks and benefits including:

• 4 weeks standard holiday + 5 additional days of wellbeing leave to support you to be your best
• Banking benefits, insurance discounts
• Growth and development – we provide opportunities for development and promote internal mobility
• Recognition - we recognise and reward our star performers
• School holiday subsidy - help you balance work and family during school holiday
• 2 Volunteer days per year

Our Organisation

At Westpac, we’re working together to build a fairer and stronger New Zealand for our people, customers, and communities. For over 160 years we’ve been driven by our purpose to Create Better Futures Together.

What makes us unique are the incredible people we’re lucky enough to have walk through our doors every day. The giant ‘W’ on our building doesn’t just stand for Westpac – it says, double you. We’re a place that values, rewards and recognises individuality. Where you can be your whole self, your true self, and your best self. We’re recognised as a place where talent is developed, where passions are fuelled and where ambitions of all shapes and sizes thrive. And it all starts with you!

We encourage people from all walks of life to apply, including those who are neurodivergent, have chronic health conditions or disabilities – your attitude and passion are as important to us as your experience, qualifications and capabilities.

Applications Close

20 October 2026