Senior Data Engineer - Azure Data & BI Lead

Plunket; New Zealand; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Two Well health days

EAP

Fitness Passport

Job summary

Whānau Āwhina Plunket is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join our Data and Insights team. You will own data pipelines, data warehouses and BI artifacts, ensuring reliable, well-governed data to support reporting and decision-making.

You will design and build medallion architecture, leverage Azure Databricks, Delta Lake and Power BI, and contribute to CI/CD and IaC practices while mentoring teammates. This role can be full-time or part-time across New Zealand.

Qualifications

• Five+ years in data engineering or data warehouse development, senior or specialist level.
• Qualification in computer science, mathematics, statistics, or related field.
• Strong practical experience with Azure Databricks, Delta Lake and ADLS Gen2.
• Advanced SQL with PySpark and Spark SQL.
• Experience designing medallion architecture and semantic datasets for BI.

Responsibilities

• Owns and improves data warehouses, reporting artefacts, dashboards and data products.
• Builds and maintains data pipelines across raw, curated and semantic layers with Azure Databricks, Delta Lake and PySpark.
• Develops ETL processes, tools and code and ensures data quality and governance.
• Monitors pipelines, resolves data issues and validates outputs against business rules.
• Contributes to CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code across Databricks and Azure.
• Provides technical guidance and peer review within the team.
• Collaborates with Data and Insights, Digital, ICT Operations and stakeholders to translate needs into data solutions.

Skills

Advanced SQL

PySpark

Spark SQL

Data Warehousing

Dimensional Modeling

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Relevant CS/Math/Stats degree

Tools

Azure Databricks

Delta Lake

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2

Power BI Service

CI/CD tooling

Terraform or similar infra tooling

Job description

Whānau Āwhina Plunket is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join our Data and Insights team. You will own data pipelines, data warehouses and BI artifacts, ensuring reliable, well-governed data to support reporting and decision-making.

You will design and build medallion architecture, leverage Azure Databricks, Delta Lake and Power BI, and contribute to CI/CD and IaC practices while mentoring teammates. This role can be full-time or part-time across New Zealand.