Senior Data Engineer

Serko; Auckland; On-site; NZD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

KiwiSaver matched 3.5%

Health & Wellbeing: Southern Cross”

Learning & development budget

Job summary

Serko is expanding its data capabilities in Auckland, seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design and scale our modern data platform. You’ll work across ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and data quality to deliver reliable, secure data solutions that empower business teams.

You’ll collaborate with Architects and Engineers to build scalable pipelines, models, and data warehouses using dbt, SQL, Python, and cloud services while upholding governance and security standards.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years in data engineering or related field.
• Strong SQL and Python experience.
• Hands-on with Snowflake and cloud data platforms.
• Experience with dbt and data orchestration.
• Knowledge of data governance and metadata management.
• Ability to translate business needs into scalable data solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable data pipelines for batch and streaming workloads.
• Collaborate with architects and engineers to shape data solutions.
• Develop data models and manage data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery).
• Ensure data quality, security, and observability.
• Write clean code in SQL, Python, and PowerShell.
• Support data products across the business.
• Participate in on-call rotation.

Skills

SQL

dbt

Python

PowerShell

Snowflake

BigQuery

Data governance

Metadata management

NoSQL

Communication

Tools

Azure

Google Cloud Platform

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.