Junior Data & AI Engineer: Build Global Data Pipelines

ZURU; Auckland; On-site; NZD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Culture for Growth

Global Opportunities

Surrounded by an A Player Team

Job summary

ZURU is seeking a Junior Data and AI Engineer to design and maintain data pipelines powering decisions across global operations. You’ll work with Databricks, dbt, Fivetran and AWS in a hands-on role with ownership from day one.

You will help enable data-driven decisions across commercial, marketing, and logistics teams by building reliable datasets, improving data quality, and supporting scalable platform infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with SQL and Python for data workflows.
• Ability to build and maintain robust data pipelines.
• Understanding of data quality, governance and scalability.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain data pipelines ingesting data from SAP, retail POS systems, logistics platforms, and marketing channels
• Migrate legacy pipelines into scalable, maintainable modern data architectures
• Monitor and improve data quality, identifying issues before they impact the business
• Support and enhance data platform infrastructure and tooling
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to deliver reliable datasets and insights
• Contribute to end‑to‑end data workflows including ingestion, transformation, and governance
• Document processes, pipelines, and learnings clearly
• Continuously improve workflows using automation and AI tools

Skills

SQL proficiency

Python scripting

Data pipelines

Learning agility

Communication

Tools

Databricks

dbt

Fivetran

AWS

Job description

ZURU is seeking a Junior Data and AI Engineer to design and maintain data pipelines powering decisions across global operations. You’ll work with Databricks, dbt, Fivetran and AWS in a hands-on role with ownership from day one.

You will help enable data-driven decisions across commercial, marketing, and logistics teams by building reliable datasets, improving data quality, and supporting scalable platform infrastructure.