Senior Cloud Data Engineer — GCP & BigQuery Specialist

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Parental leave

Gym discounts

Wellbeing tools

Job summary

Foodstuffs South Island seeks a Senior Cloud Data Engineer to lead hands-on design and delivery of GCP data platform and analytics capabilities. You will build secure, scalable cloud and data solutions, modernising legacy workloads while collaborating across teams to deliver on enterprise standards.

You’ll design and maintain GCP infrastructure and data pipelines using Terraform, Dataform, and dbt on BigQuery, ensuring quality, timelines, and cost efficiency in a large enterprise environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or related field.
• Strong experience designing and implementing cloud platform services (IAM, environments, networking, resource hierarchy).
• Strong data engineering experience including data warehousing, dimensional modelling, and ELT/ETL patterns.
• Practical production experience with BigQuery or a comparable cloud-native data warehouse.
• Experience using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred).
• Experience with Dataform, dbt, or similar SQL-based transformation frameworks.

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

Data warehousing

ELT/ETL patterns

Engineering judgement

Collaboration across teams

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or related field

Tools

Terraform

Dataform

dbt

BigQuery

Job description

Foodstuffs South Island seeks a Senior Cloud Data Engineer to lead hands-on design and delivery of GCP data platform and analytics capabilities. You will build secure, scalable cloud and data solutions, modernising legacy workloads while collaborating across teams to deliver on enterprise standards.

You’ll design and maintain GCP infrastructure and data pipelines using Terraform, Dataform, and dbt on BigQuery, ensuring quality, timelines, and cost efficiency in a large enterprise environment.