Senior AI Data Engineer — Scalable AI Platforms

Air New Zealand

Christchurch

On-site

NZD 150,000 - 190,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Discounted travel

FlexiLeave

Learning and development

Job summary

Air New Zealand is seeking a Senior AI Data Engineer to design and deliver trusted, AI-ready data products and intelligent solutions in Christchurch. You’ll collaborate across Commercial, Corporate, Operational and Engineering domains with Auckland support as needed.

You’ll drive AI-enabled data pipelines, semantic models and governance, while mentoring engineers and improving DataOps, CI/CD and testing practices for scalable analytics and AI-powered decision making.

Qualifications

Experience delivering enterprise-scale data products and modern cloud data platforms.
Strong data modelling, ELT/ETL and analytic capabilities including AI-oriented tooling.
Experience with AI solutions, agents, semantic retrieval, automation or AI-assisted engineering.
Proficiency with AWS, Azure or Google Cloud platforms.
Experience with DataOps, CI/CD, automation, testing and IaC.

Responsibilities

Enable AI capabilities including intelligent automation and semantic retrieval.
Design and deliver scalable, trusted data products supporting analytics and AI solutions.
Prepare data, information and assets for GenAI agents to use effectively.
Build cloud data pipelines, semantic models and reusable engineering frameworks.
Advocate DataOps, CI/CD, automated testing and observability practices.
Ensure data products are governed, secure, and standards-aligned.
Collaborate with stakeholders to solve business challenges using data and AI.
Mentor engineers and contribute to engineering standards.