Remote Senior Data Platform Engineer – Pipelines & AI

Theta; Wellington; Hybrid; NZD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Fully subsidised medical insurance

Volunteer days

Parental leave benefits

Daily fruit & beverages

Job summary

Theta is seeking an experienced Lead Data Consultant to join the Data and Insights Practice in Wellington or Auckland. You will own end-to-end data platform delivery, focusing on reliability and performance, with engagement across client stakeholders and delivery teams.

Strong data engineering expertise across Fabric, Databricks, Snowflake, and Azure services is essential. You will mentor peers, contribute to reusable assets, and help shape scalable data solutions for measurable business

Qualifications

• At least eight years of data engineering experience delivering enterprise-scale data platforms and/or Enterprise Data Warehouses, including complex integration and production support requirements.
• Strong experience delivering on one or more modern platforms such as Fabric, Databricks, and Snowflake, with Azure services.
• Advanced SQL capability and strong Python (including PySpark) skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, build, and optimisation of data pipelines across Lakehouse and warehouse patterns with focus on reliability and performance.
• Deliver robust data transformations enabling reporting, analytics, and AI use cases.
• Shape and implement modern architecture patterns (e.g., medallion/bronze-silver-gold, curated layers, reusable data products).
• Produce clean Python and SQL aligned to engineering standards.
• Implement automated testing, monitoring, data validation, and performance tuning for stable operations.
• Lead technical discovery and translate business requirements into clear engineering scope and deliverables.
• Partner with architects and delivery teams to shape design, estimates, sequencing, and delivery plans.
• Provide clear communication on progress, risks, and blockers to stakeholders and leadership.
• Conduct peer reviews and promote consistent patterns across coding and deployment practices.
• Mentor team members and uplift delivery capability.
• Contribute to Theta assets and continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills

Data engineering

Azure Databricks

Snowflake

Python

SQL

Git CI/CD

DataOps

Stakeholder engagement

Mentoring

AI coding tools

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

Databricks

Snowflake

Azure Synapse

Job description

Theta is seeking an experienced Lead Data Consultant to join the Data and Insights Practice in Wellington or Auckland. You will own end-to-end data platform delivery, focusing on reliability and performance, with engagement across client stakeholders and delivery teams.

Strong data engineering expertise across Fabric, Databricks, Snowflake, and Azure services is essential. You will mentor peers, contribute to reusable assets, and help shape scalable data solutions for measurable business