Interim Data Platform Lead for Enterprise Analytics

Inland Revenue; New Zealand; On-site; NZD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Inland Revenue is seeking an experienced Data Platform Lead (Domain Lead L1) to provide technical leadership for our enterprise data and analytics platform during an interim period. Wellington-based preferred, with flexibility to operate across IR locations.

The role focuses on stability, delivery confidence, and collaboration with business and technology teams to prioritise and drive outcomes. You will lead a delivery team across internal staff, contractors and vendors, coaching others and

Qualifications

• Substantial senior experience in enterprise data, analytics, engineering, platform, technology, or service delivery environments.
• Strong experience leading or supporting enterprise data platform environments.
• Clear, balanced communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Good judgement, maturity, and ability to work with established teams.
• Practical approach to problem solving, prioritisation, risk management, and decision support.
• Confidence working autonomously while aligning with customer direction.
• Awareness of confidentiality, privacy, information security, and handling of sensitive data.
• Inclusive working style supporting a diverse team environment.
• Experience coaching and developing others, building capability and lifting performance.

Responsibilities

• Provide practical technical leadership across the data platform environment to keep teams aligned and moving.
• Support operational stability, service continuity, and delivery confidence during the interim period.
• Collaborate with customer leaders, delivery teams, and vendor stakeholders to clarify priorities and manage dependencies.
• Surface risks and technical trade-offs early and enable timely governance-based decisions.
• Bring together permanent staff, contractors, and vendors as a single delivery team.
• Support transition to future permanent technical leadership where required.
• Lead, coach and develop others to strengthen quality of advice and decision-making.

Skills

Senior data experience

Data platform leadership

Stakeholder communication

Autonomous work style

Risk & decision support

Coaching & development

Confidentiality awareness

Inclusive leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Snowflake

Power BI

SAS

Posit

dbt

Airflow

Python

Job description

Inland Revenue is seeking an experienced Data Platform Lead (Domain Lead L1) to provide technical leadership for our enterprise data and analytics platform during an interim period. Wellington-based preferred, with flexibility to operate across IR locations.

The role focuses on stability, delivery confidence, and collaboration with business and technology teams to prioritise and drive outcomes. You will lead a delivery team across internal staff, contractors and vendors, coaching others and