Senior Data Engineer

ASB; Auckland; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Learning culture

Job summary

ASB Bank in Auckland is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and platforms that enable trusted insights and informed decision-making across the business.

Working in an agile environment, you’ll collaborate with data stakeholders, apply software engineering and site reliability principles, and contribute to data standards, quality, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Strong SQL and Python skills with production experience.
• Experience with data integration and CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with cloud-native data platforms and streaming tech.
• Ability to communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of data pipelines and data engineering processes.
• Build reliable, scalable, and high-quality data solutions using modern data engineering practices.
• Identify opportunities to automate, simplify, and standardise processes.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver aligned data solutions.
• Apply software engineering and site reliability principles to improve data quality and performance.
• Contribute to data engineering standards, documentation, and best practices.
• Support team members, contributing to capability uplift across the team.
• Champion continuous improvement across data platforms, processes, and ways of working.
• Ensure adherence to ASB’s risk, governance, and control frameworks.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data pipelines

Data warehousing

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Streaming technologies

Containerisation

Data modelling

Stakeholder communication

Quality mindset

Tools

Kafka

IBM Streamsets

Wharescape Red

dbt

Snowflake

Databricks

Job description

At ASB, we’re all about doing what we can to help our customers get one step ahead. Our purpose guides everything we do, and our Data & Analytics teams play a critical role in delivering better outcomes for our customers and our business.

Our Auckland based Data & Analytics Practice is growing. We’re looking for talented Senior Data Engineers to join our team in Auckland.

As a Senior Data Engineer, you’ll be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining high-quality data solutions that enable trusted insights and decision-making across ASB.

Working within a collaborative, agile environment, you’ll contribute to the development of scalable data pipelines and platforms, while partnering with business stakeholders to understand and deliver against business needs.

In this role, you will:

• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of data pipelines and data engineering processes
• Build reliable, scalable, and high-quality data solutions using modern data engineering practices
• Identify opportunities to automate, simplify, and standardise processes
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver aligned data solutions
• Apply software engineering and site reliability principles to improve data quality and performance
• Contribute to data engineering standards, documentation, and best practices
• Support team members, contributing to capability uplift across the team
• Champion continuous improvement across data platforms, processes, and ways of working
• Ensure adherence to ASB’s risk, governance, and control frameworks

We’re looking for someone with strong technical capability and experience, a collaborative mindset, and understanding of modern data environments:

• Relevant experience working with data engineering, data warehousing, or large-scale data platforms
• Strong SQL and Python skills, including code optimisation and productionisation
• Experience with data integration, CI/CD, and modern data architectures
• Exposure to cloud-native platforms, streaming technologies, or containerisation
• Understanding of data structures, data modelling, and engineering principles
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• A proactive approach, with a focus on quality, improvement, and delivery
• Proven judgement across security, risk, governance, quality and commercial considerations in production environments.
• Some working knowledge or experience across a selection of data integration, transformation, and cloud data technologies such as Kafka, IBM Streamsets, Wharescape Red, dbt, Snowflake or Databricks.

At ASB, we live our values every day:

These guide how we work together, support our customers, and deliver great outcomes.

He aha tā mātou | What we offer?

• The opportunity to work at the forefront of ASB’s data transformation
• A collaborative, supportive environment that values continuous learning
• The chance to influence how data is managed and used across the organisation
• Flexible working and strong focus on wellbeing.

To serve a diverse community, we need a diverse organisation. We encourage applicants from allbackgrounds who bring unique perspectives and thinking styles that add to the culture andperformance of our team.