Senior Analytics Engineer: Data Platforms & Insights

dataengine; Wellington; On-site; NZD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

dataengine is seeking a Senior Analytics Engineer / BI Consultant in Wellington, NZ to translate business requirements into scalable analytics solutions. You will work directly with clients, bridging strategy and implementation, building data models, and delivering dbt transformations on Snowflake.

The role combines advisory work with hands-on development, enabling modern data platforms, analytics products, and enterprise data solutions for diverse industries.

Qualifications

• 8+ years delivering data and analytics solutions.
• Strong Snowflake, Databricks and dbt experience.
• Advanced SQL development skills.
• Proven experience in data modelling and analytics engineering.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and workshop facilitation experience.
• Experience translating business requirements into technical solutions.
• Expertise across data warehousing, lakehouse, and modern analytics architectures.
• Experience building enterprise analytics platforms and data products.
• Strong communication and consulting skills.
• Comfortable moving between executive conversations and technical implementation.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery workshops and stakeholder engagements.
• Gather and translate business requirements into scalable analytics solutions.
• Help organisations make better decisions through modern data platforms.
• Act as a trusted advisor throughout project delivery.
• Develop conceptual, logical, and physical data models.
• Design analytics-ready data structures and data products.
• Create dimensional models, star schemas, and modern modelling solutions.
• Contribute to enterprise-scale data platform architecture.
• Design and develop dbt transformation frameworks.
• Build scalable analytics solutions on Snowflake.
• Create reusable semantic layers and analytics assets.
• Develop high-quality SQL and analytics engineering pipelines.
• Optimise performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Provide technical leadership across client engagements.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to best practices.
• Work alongside architects, engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders.
• Help clients modernise their data and analytics capabilities.

Skills

Snowflake

Databricks

dbt

SQL

Data modelling

Stakeholder engagement

Workshop facilitation

Consulting

Analytics engineering

Executive communication

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

dbt

Job description

dataengine is seeking a Senior Analytics Engineer / BI Consultant in Wellington, NZ to translate business requirements into scalable analytics solutions. You will work directly with clients, bridging strategy and implementation, building data models, and delivering dbt transformations on Snowflake.

The role combines advisory work with hands-on development, enabling modern data platforms, analytics products, and enterprise data solutions for diverse industries.