Data Engineer (Projects)

Heartland; Auckland; Sur place; NZD 120 000 - 150 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Heartland is seeking a Data Engineer - Projects to shape and deliver strategic data initiatives across New Zealand and Australia, using Snowflake, dbt, Azure Data Factory, Data Vault 2.0 and AtScale to build scalable data products that support finance analytics, regulatory reporting and platform migrations.

You will influence solution design, work with stakeholders across the business and help establish best-practice data engineering standards in a growing financial services group.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering data engineering solutions in production environments.
• Hands-on with Snowflake and SQL, including performance optimisation.
• Experience with dbt in production: models, testing, lineage, deployment.
• Experience building ingestion and orchestration with Azure Data Factory.
• Knowledge of Data Vault 2.0 concepts.
• Experience delivering governed semantic layers with AtScale.

Responsabilités

• Shape and deliver strategic data initiatives across New Zealand and Australia.
• Build scalable data products supporting reporting and analytics.
• Influence solution design and establish best-practice data engineering standards.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the business.

Connaissances

Advanced SQL

Data transformation

Stakeholder communication

Git/GitHub

Problem solving

Outils

Snowflake

dbt

Azure Data Factory

Data Vault 2.0

AtScale

Description du poste

Is this your next role?

Do you enjoy building modern data platforms, solving complex data challenges, and delivering solutions that have a real impact on business outcomes?

At Heartland, we are looking for a Data Engineer - Projects to help shape and deliver strategic data initiatives across both New Zealand and Australia. You'll work with modern cloud technologies including Snowflake, dbt, Azure Data Factory, Data Vault 2.0, and AtScale, building scalable data products that support everything from regulatory reporting and finance analytics to platform migrations and business transformation programmes.

This is an opportunity to work on meaningful projects within a growing financial services organisation that is investing heavily in its data and digital capabilities. You'll have the chance to influence solution design, work closely with stakeholders across the business, and help establish best-practice data engineering standards.

Why this role is exciting

• Work with a modern cloud data stack: Snowflake, dbt, Azure Data Factory, DV2 and AtScale.
• Deliver high-impact projects that directly support strategic business initiatives.
• Join a collaborative team where your technical expertise and ideas are valued.
• Help shape the future of data at a digital-first financial services organisation.
• Gain exposure to both New Zealand and Australian banking environments.
• Enjoy a balance of hands-on engineering, solution design, stakeholder engagement and innovation.

Does this sound like you?

You're passionate about data engineering and enjoy turning complex business requirements into scalable, reliable data solutions. You thrive in project environments, enjoy solving challenging problems, and take pride in delivering high-quality outcomes.

You’ll bring proven experience in:

• Delivering data engineering solutions in production environments, including project delivery, controlled releases and stakeholder engagement.
• Strong hands-on engineering using Snowflake and SQL, including performance optimisation and cost-conscious design.
• Developing and supporting dbt in production, including models, testing, documentation, lineage and deployment practices.
• Building and operating ingestion and orchestration solutions, ideally using Azure Data Factory.
• Applying dimensional modelling and/or Data Vault 2.0 concepts to meet business requirements.
• Delivering governed semantic layer solutions, ideally with AtScale or similar technologies.
• Working within regulated industries where data accuracy, governance and traceability are critical.

Your strengths include:

• Advanced SQL and data transformation skills.
• Designing solutions that are maintainable, performant and operationally supportable.
• Navigating ambiguity and translating business needs into practical technical solutions.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability.
• Communicating effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Following disciplined engineering practices including Git/GitHub, code reviews, testing and documentation.
• Managing competing priorities while maintaining delivery quality and transparency

A bit about us and what we do

Heartland is an NZX/ASX-listed financial services group with big growth plans. Heartland owns both Heartland Bank in New Zealand and Heartland Bank in Australia. We provide award-winning savings and finance products to a diverse range of customers including business owners, farmers and retirees. Heartland's strategy is to digitalise everything we do, enabling us to provide customers with what they need in a scalable way. We can then pass those benefits onto the customer through faster service and better rates.

Can you see yourself here?

We're innovative and always evolving. We work together as one team and have big ambition. We're committed to creating a culture of inclusivity that celebrates our diverse backgrounds and supports the wellbeing of our people. We offer real opportunities for learning and career development. You can also drive change through our internal groups (including Manawa Whenua - our Māori group, the Rainbow Committee, Diversity & Inclusion Committee and our Green Team).

Diversity & Inclusion

At Heartland, we're proud to celebrate the many characteristics that make each of us different. We are committed to improving the inclusiveness of our workplace, enabling our people to be authentic and helping us better understand and respond to our customers. We're a Living Wage Employer, a Hearing Accredited Workplace, and have the Rainbow Tick.

Heartland is an equal opportunity employer. We strongly encourage everyone to apply and we welcome everyone to the team. Please let us know if you need any adjustments throughout the application or interview process including a sign language interpreter or speech-to-text reporter. In your application, feel free to let us know what your pronouns are (for example, she/her, he/him, they/them etc).

Keen to learn more?

For an insight into life at Heartland, check out our Instagram @heartlandbanknz or follow us on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/company/heartland-bank-nz.

Please note you must be eligible to work in New Zealand.