Lead Data Consultant

Tribe Group; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Enhanced parental leave

Volunteer days

Job summary

Tribe Group in Auckland is seeking an experienced Lead Data Consultant to join an established Data & Insights team in a hands-on role with a strong data engineering focus.

You’ll lead the end-to-end build of modern data platforms and pipelines, designing solutions that are reliable, maintainable, and production-grade. Hybrid work with 2 days in-office is available.

Qualifications

• Experience leading end-to-end data platform builds.
• Design robust data transformations and curated layers.
• Strong SQL and Python coding skills for production-grade pipelines.
• Experience with Git, CI/CD, and DataOps practices.
• Ability to mentor delivery teams and communicate progress clearly.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, build and optimisation of data pipelines (lakehouse + warehouse).
• Build robust transformations and curated data layers (medallion/ bronze-silver-gold).
• Write clean, maintainable SQL and Python (PySpark).
• Implement testing, monitoring, validation, and performance tuning.
• Apply Git/CI/CD/DataOps practices and mentor team members.

Skills

SQL

Python

PySpark

Git CI/CD

Data pipelines

Databricks

Snowflake

Azure

Mentoring

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Fabric

Azure

Job description

We're looking for an experienced Lead Data Consultant to join an established Data & Insights team in a hands-on role with a strong data engineering focus.

You’ll lead the end-to-end build of modern data platforms and pipelines designing solutions that are reliable, maintainable, and genuinely production-grade.

Working closely with client stakeholders, solution architects and delivery teams, you’ll translate requirements into clear engineering scope and drive delivery through to outcomes that enable reporting, analytics and AI use cases.

While Microsoft Fabric is a key part of the current delivery roadmap, we’re also open to candidates with strong experience across modern platforms such as Fabric, Databricks and/or Snowflake (plus related Azure services). Strong engineering fundamentals matter most.

About The Opportunity

You’ll Be Responsible For

• Leading the design, build and optimisation of data pipelines (lakehouse + warehouse patterns)
• Building robust transformations and curated data layers (e.g., medallion / bronze-silver-gold)
• Writing clean, maintainable SQL and Python (PySpark where relevant)
• Implementing testing, monitoring, validation, and performance tuning
• Applying strong Git / CI/CD / DevOps & DataOps practices
• Mentoring team members and uplifting delivery capability
• Communicating progress, risks and dependencies clearly to stakeholders

What’s On Offer

You’ll join a highly capable consulting-style environment with strong standards, good support, and genuine flexibility.

What You Can Expect

• Hybrid working (minimum 2 days in-office)
• Competitive salary (commensurate with experience)
• Medical insurance (fully subsidised for employees, discounted for immediate family)
• Enhanced parental leave (top-ups + return-to-work incentive)
• Volunteer days, referral incentives, wellbeing support (EAP), flu vaccinations
• Ongoing learning and professional development

you MUST be a New Zealand citizen, resident, or have already secured the right to work in New Zealand and therefore hold a valid visa.

Tribe is a group of specialist teams, each of who truly understand their world, and together they partner to understand yours. Whether you’re looking for your next opportunity or recruiting, we’re all about bringing people together for a shared purpose. Find your people.