Senior Data Engineer - 8 month contractor

JobSpace; Auckland; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Jora New Zealand in Auckland is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to lead complex data initiatives, mentor engineers, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable data platforms.

You will work with Hadoop stack, Airflow, and modern DevOps practices to ensure high service delivery and compliance, while continuously improving data quality and performance. This role requires 5+ years of data engineering experience, strong communication, and the ability to influence across squads.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of data engineering, platform engineering, or related discipline.
• Experience with data workflows and modern data platforms.
• Knowledge of secure software development for handling sensitive data.

Responsibilities

• Mentor and guide engineers within the squad.
• Ensure high levels of service delivery with risk and compliance in mind.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to enable innovative data products.
• Diagnose and resolve complex technical issues across the lifecycle.

Skills

Data engineering

Mentoring

Agile delivery

DevOps practices

Stakeholder collaboration

Problem solving

Security best practices

Education

Tertiary qualification in CS/IS/Engineering

Tools

HDFS

Spark

Airflow

Terraform

CI/CD

Containerisation

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.

The Senior Data Engineer not only provides expert domain knowledge and expertise in the area they are working in, but as a senior member of the squad, provides mentorship and guidance to others. They operate with greater scope within the service group, wider technology business unit and with business stakeholders to ensure high levels of Service Delivery are maintained and an overarching focus on risk and compliance is always front of mind in the squad.

Communication, negotiation, collaboration and teamwork, and partnership/relationship building skills are key to achieving desired outcomes in this role. In particular to enable the delivery of great innovative banking products that continue to enhance our customers' experience.

What will you bring?

• Good at the Hadoop stack, particularly HDFS and Spark.
• Experience orchestrating data workflows with Airflow.
• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, platform engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Solid understanding of CDC patterns and data streaming patterns.
• Awareness of secure software development practices for handling sensitive data
• Experience with Terraform, CI/CD pipelines and containerisation.
• Demonstrated ability to assess new technologies, review vendor solutions, and recommend improvements to existing engineering approaches.
• Proven capability in diagnosing and resolving complex technical issues throughout the application lifecycle.
• Strong understanding of quality assurance, testing frameworks, and continuous improvement.
• Tertiary qualifications in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related discipline, with relevant technical certifications preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor, support and grow engineers.
• Comfortable in Agile delivery and modern DevOps practices.