Senior Data Engineer

Serko Ltd.; Auckland; On-site; NZD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

KiwiSaver with employer match 3.5%

Health insurance and wellbeing support

Career development and learning budget

Job summary

Serko Ltd. is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to shape and scale a modern data platform in New Zealand. In this high-impact role you’ll influence ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and data quality to deliver reliable and secure data solutions across the business.

You will work with architects and engineers to design scalable pipelines, build data models, and manage cloud data warehouses using Snowflake and BigQuery. A strong focus on governance, security and collaboration is essential.

Qualifications

• Strong background in data engineering and modern data platform design.
• Experience with Snowflake data warehouses and cloud data services.
• Proficiency in SQL and dbt for modeling, with Python scripting in data workflows.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and agile development environment.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable, resilient data solutions with a small cross-functional team.
• Build and optimise batch and streaming data pipelines across platforms.
• Collaborate with Platform, Architecture and Security teams for performance and data governance.
• Develop robust data models and orchestrate workflows in dbt and cloud tools.
• Maintain and evolve data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery) and ensure data quality.
• Enable secure, observable data platforms with clear documentation and governance.

Skills

SQL proficiency

Data warehousing

Cloud platforms

DevOps culture

dbt expertise

Python scripting

Communication skills

Tools

Snowflake

BigQuery

dbt

PowerShell

Job description

Serko is a cutting-edge tech platform in global business travel & expense technology. When you join Serko, you become part of a team of passionate travellers and technologists bringing people together, using the world’s leading business travel marketplace. We are proud to be an equal-opportunity employer, we embrace the richness of diversity, showing up authentically to create a positive impact.

Make an impact

We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer with a strong background in data engineering to help shape and scale our modern data platform.

This is a high-impact role where you'll work across ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and data quality to ensure reliable, secure and high-performing data solutions that support teams across the business.

What you'll get to do

• Collaborate with Architects and Principal Engineers to design scalable and resilient data solutions as part of a team of five
• Build, maintain, and optimise data pipelines across batch and streaming workloads
• Coordinate with Platform, Architecture, and Security teams to ensure data platform solutions are designed for performance, security, durability and scalability
• Develop robust data models using dbt and orchestrate workflows via both Azure and Google Clouds
• Manage and enhance our cloud data warehouses on Snowflake and BigQuery
• Ensure best practice in data governance, cataloguing, observability and security
• Write clean and efficient code in dbt, SQL, Python, and PowerShell
• Improve existing complex SQL, PowerShell, and Python used in both SQL-based and non-SQL-based OLTP and OLAP systems
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful data products
• Participate in a light rotating on-call schedule (approximately one week per month)

What you'll bring

• Deep understanding of data warehouse, data lake, and modern data engineering and the ability to communicate such
• Practice experience working in an agile development environment and familiarity with DevOps culture
• Hands-on expertise with Snowflake (or equivalent modern cloud DWH)
• Advanced skills in SQL and experience using dbt
• Familiarity with data governance and metadata management
• Experience with Data Vault 2.0 or NoSQL technologies (e.g., MongoDB, Cosmos DB) is a plus
• Comfortable working across teams and translating business needs into scalable data solutions
• Passion for clean, scalable, secure and performant data solutions
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, solution-focused mindset
• A growth mindset and openness to feedback

At Serko we aim to create a place where people can come and do their best work. This means you’ll be operating in an environment with great tools and support to enable you to perform at the highest level of your abilities, producing high-quality, and delivering innovative and efficient results. Our people are fully engaged, continuously improving, and encouraged to make an impact.

Some of the benefits of working at Serko are:

• A competitive base salary
• KiwiSaver covered with employee contributions match up to 3.5% of salary, and life insurance.
• Health & Wellbeing: Discounted Southern Cross Health Insurance, access to confidential support, guidance and counselling services, wellbeing and voluntary leave, and free flu shots.
• Focus on development: Access to a learning & development platform, committed budget and opportunity for you to own your career pathways.