Senior Cloud Data Engineer

Foodstuffs South Island; New Zealand; On-site; NZD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Jora New Zealand is seeking a Senior Cloud Data Engineer to be hands-on across cloud infrastructure and data engineering, shaping GCP and analytics capabilities.

You’ll design, build, and improve cloud and data solutions that are secure, scalable, and aligned with enterprise standards while modernising legacy workloads.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering cloud data solutions on large-scale platforms.
• Strong understanding of data models, pipelines, and analytics.
• Ability to work with stakeholders to deliver within scope and timeframes.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design and evolution of the GCP cloud platform and data engineering architecture.
• Collaborate with Public Cloud, Architecture, and Cybersecurity teams to design and deliver infrastructure, data platform, and access-related changes.
• Help define, uplift, and embed engineering standards across infrastructure, data pipelines, data models, and development practices.
• Design, build, and maintain GCP infrastructure including IAM, resource hierarchy, networking, and environments using Terraform or similar IaC tools.
• Design, build, and maintain data transformation pipelines and analytical data models using Dataform, dbt, or equivalent frameworks on BigQuery.
• Contribute to BigQuery warehouse design, optimisation, performance tuning, and cost management.
• Work closely with stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver solutions to agreed scope, quality, and timeframes.

Skills

Cloud data engineering

Architecture design

Collaboration across teams

Engineering judgement

Tools

Terraform

BigQuery

dbt

Dataform

Job description

Jora New Zealand will close on 9th September 2026. Thank you for being with us, we are cheering you on as you continue your career journey.

As a Senior Cloud Data Engineer, you’ll be hands-on across both cloud infrastructure and data engineering, helping shape and deliver our Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and analytics capabilities.

You’ll design, build, and improve cloud and data solutions that are secure, scalable, and aligned with enterprise standards, while also contributing to the ongoing modernisation of legacy data workloads.

This is a practical, delivery-focused role that suits someone with strong engineering judgement who enjoys collaborating across teams, improving standards, and working with modern cloud and data technologies.

Key responsibilities:

• Contribute to the design and evolution of the GCP cloud platform and data engineering architecture.
• Collaborate with Public Cloud, Architecture, and Cybersecurity teams to design and deliver infrastructure, data platform, and access-related changes.
• Help define, uplift, and embed engineering standards across infrastructure, data pipelines, data models, and development practices.
• Design, build, and maintain GCP infrastructure including IAM, resource hierarchy, networking, and environments using Terraform or similar IaC tools.
• Design, build, and maintain data transformation pipelines and analytical data models using Dataform, dbt, or equivalent frameworks on BigQuery.
• Contribute to BigQuery warehouse design, optimisation, performance tuning, and cost management.
• Work closely with stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver solutions to agreed scope, quality, and timeframes.