Senior Business Intelligence Consultant

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

Senior Analytics Engineer / BI Consultant

Wellington, New Zealand

Turn Business Problems into Data Products That Matter

At dataengine, we help organisations unlock the value of their data through modern cloud platforms, analytics, AI, and pragmatic delivery. We're looking for a Senior Analytics Engineer / BI Consultant who can bridge the gap between business strategy and technical implementation.

If you're equally comfortable running stakeholder workshops, designing enterprise data models, building dbt transformations, and optimising Snowflake solutions, we'd love to hear from you.

This isn't a role where you hand over designs and walk away.

You’ll be working directly with clients, translating complex business requirements into scalable analytics solutions and then rolling up your sleeves to build them.

What You'll Be Doing

Solve Real Business Problems

• 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

Design Modern Data Solutions

• 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

Build with Modern Data Technologies

• 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

Lead Delivery

• 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

What We're Looking For

You bring both consulting capability and hands-on technical depth.

Essential Skills & Experience

• 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

Bonus Points

• Snowflake Certifications
• dbt Certification
• Databricks Certifications
• Experience supporting AI and Machine Learning initiatives
• Consulting or professional services experience
• Knowledge of modern data governance and data management practices

Why Join dataengine?

At dataengine, we're a team of practitioners who believe in delivering outcomes, not presentations.

You'll have the opportunity to:

• Work on complex and meaningful data challenges
• Build modern cloud data platforms using leading technologies
• Collaborate with some of New Zealand's most experienced data and AI specialists
• Contribute to AI, analytics, and digital transformation initiatives across multiple industries
• Gain exposure to Snowflake, AI, analytics engineering, cloud platforms, and modern data architecture
• Enjoy continuous learning, certifications, and professional development
• Be part of a highly collaborative culture where your ideas genuinely matter
• Work in an environment that values pragmatism, innovation, and doing great work for customers

About dataengine

dataengine is a New Zealand-based specialist Data, Analytics & AI consultancy helping organisations build modern data platforms, unlock actionable insights, and accelerate AI adoption.

We partner with clients across government, enterprise, and commercial sectors to deliver everything from strategy and architecture through to engineering, analytics, AI solutions, and managed services.

Our philosophy is simple:

Build the right foundations. Deliver value early. Focus on outcomes.

If you're passionate about solving complex business problems through data and want to work alongside a team of experienced consultants, engineers, architects, and AI specialists, we'd love to hear from you.