Data Engineer Intern: Build Production Pipelines & Cloud Skills

DATA INSIGHT; Auckland; On-site; NZD 30,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

Generate Zero is seeking an Intern Data Engineer to join our growing team in Auckland. You will assist with building, maintaining and troubleshooting client data pipelines, learning production-grade pipelines and automation using SQL and Python, and working with cloud data platforms to support audit-ready sustainability reporting.

The 10-week full-time internship offers potential for transition to part-time.

Qualifications

• A relevant tertiary qualification in computer science, data, engineering, mathematics or a related field.
• Some exposure to SQL through study, personal projects, internships or coursework.
• Basic familiarity with Python or another programming language.
• Some knowledge of using environments like Azure or AWS for building, storing, or transforming data.
• Comfortable with handling data in different formats (e.g. json, csv, relational database).
• An interest in data transformation, quality control, cloud platforms and how businesses use data to make decisions.
• A love for collaboration and a willingness to contribute to a supportive, idea-sharing team environment.

Responsibilities

• Supporting the development, testing and maintenance of client data pipelines.
• Use a combination of tools and stacks (Azure Storage, Fabric, python, SQL, postgres, SQL Server) to streamline, automate and develop quality assurance, version control and lineage capabilities for our data operations.
• Writing and troubleshooting SQL queries to extract, transform and validate client data.
• Helping to load and organise data from a range of sources (files, APIs, databases) into cloud-based data platforms.
• Working closely with the data team to build out data ingestion templates and new data connectors to improve our client implementation process.
• Running and automating data quality checks and helping to identify and resolve data issues.
• Supporting the data-side of client implementations onto our platform.
• Documenting your work clearly, including data processes, pipeline logic and any issues encountered.
• Participating in code reviews and taking feedback on board to continuously improve your technical skills.
• Supporting the wider data team with ad-hoc analysis and data tasks as needed.

Skills

SQL exposure

Python basics

Collaboration

Data platforms knowledge

Problem solving

Education

Tertiary qualification in CS/Data/Engineering/Math

Tools

Azure

AWS

PostgreSQL

SQL Server

Python

Job description

Generate Zero is seeking an Intern Data Engineer to join our growing team in Auckland. You will assist with building, maintaining and troubleshooting client data pipelines, learning production-grade pipelines and automation using SQL and Python, and working with cloud data platforms to support audit-ready sustainability reporting.

The 10-week full-time internship offers potential for transition to part-time.