Senior Analytics Engineer: Build AI-Ready, Trusted Data

Air New Zealand; Auckland; On-site; NZD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Air New Zealand is seeking Senior Analytics Engineers to join cross-functional squads and deliver trusted, AI-ready data products that empower self-service analytics. You’ll build scalable foundations, data models, and governance practices to support AI, ML and generative AI use cases across the business.

Work with business and technical teams to solve complex problems, design reusable analytical solutions, and uplift delivery quality through coaching and leadership.

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience in analytics engineering, AI and/or BI development, data warehousing or related data role in an enterprise environment.
• Demonstrated experience designing scalable data models, data marts or semantic layers and leading technical solution design across multiple data sources.
• Strong knowledge of AI-ready data design, governance considerations, evaluation approaches and delivery frameworks for AI/ML use cases.
• Proven experience partnering with business leaders and SMEs to shape roadmaps and translate ambiguous problems into analytics initiatives.
• Coaching, mentoring and peer leadership capability to uplift delivery quality.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, facilitation and influencing skills across business and tech groups.

Responsibilities

• Develop enduring, governed and trusted analytical foundations that make complex data accessible and business-readable.
• Enable high-quality self-service and AI-assisted analytics for teams to confidently discover and use trusted data.
• Design data with people and AI in mind, ensuring analytical products are well structured and documented.
• Partner with business and technical teams to translate complex problems into actionable analytics solutions.
• Set and champion analytics engineering standards and improve quality, consistency and maintainability.
• Grow capability across the craft through technical leadership and knowledge sharing.

Skills

Analytics engineering

AI-ready data

Data modelling

Data governance

Stakeholder engagement

Coaching/mentoring

Job description

Air New Zealand is seeking Senior Analytics Engineers to join cross-functional squads and deliver trusted, AI-ready data products that empower self-service analytics. You’ll build scalable foundations, data models, and governance practices to support AI, ML and generative AI use cases across the business.

Work with business and technical teams to solve complex problems, design reusable analytical solutions, and uplift delivery quality through coaching and leadership.