Data Platform Engineer: Snowflake on Azure

Southern Cross Medical Care Society; Auckland; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing leave

Health insurance

Life insurance

Parental leave

Wellbeing programme

Flexi leave

Volunteer day

Job summary

Southern Cross Health Insurance in Auckland leads a major Data & AI capability expansion. We are building a platform to deliver trusted data to business users, with scale, security and governance at the core.

As Data Platform Engineer, you will own the Snowflake environment, design automated pipelines, and ensure data products meet governance and compliance requirements. This role offers meaningful impact and collaboration across Analytics and Engineering teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and operating production data pipelines.
• Strong experience with Snowflake and Azure data services.
• Proficient in SQL and Python.
• Experience with governance, security and data lineage.
• Familiar with CI/CD patterns and IaC.

Responsibilities

• Manage Snowflake platform performance, storage, roles and security.
• Apply governance controls across access, classification and lineage.
• Run and evolve the ingestion platform (ADF and its replacement) across APIs, storage and databases.
• Control database change through DCM, reviewing and approving schema change releases.
• Maintain shared GitHub CI/CD patterns and checks used consistently across repos.
• Provision and manage platform infrastructure as code.
• Safeguard sensitive and health data in line with the Privacy Act and internal policy.
• Develop and maintain MLOps pipelines for model versioning, testing and deployment.
• Partner with Analytics Engineers, approving their schema change fixes into the platform.

Skills

SQL

Python

GitHub CI/CD

Data governance

Security & privacy

Stakeholder management

DevOps mindset

Collaborative approach

Tools

Snowflake

Azure

ADF

CI/CD tooling

GitHub

Job description

Southern Cross Health Insurance in Auckland leads a major Data & AI capability expansion. We are building a platform to deliver trusted data to business users, with scale, security and governance at the core.

As Data Platform Engineer, you will own the Snowflake environment, design automated pipelines, and ensure data products meet governance and compliance requirements. This role offers meaningful impact and collaboration across Analytics and Engineering teams.