Senior Data Engineer: Azure Databricks & BI Solutions

Whānau Āwhina Plunket; Tauranga; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Two Well health Days

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Fitness Passport access

Job summary

Whānau Āwhina Plunket is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to own and evolve data warehouses, dashboards and data products. In our Azure Databricks, Delta Lake and Power BI environment, you will lead data engineering efforts and set standards for pipelines, testing and deployment.

You will provide hands-on delivery alongside technical leadership, collaborate across teams, and help turn complex business needs into practical data solutions that empower trusted reporting and decision-making.

Qualifications

• At least five years in data engineering, data warehousing or related senior roles.
• Strong grounding in data modelling, staging layers and BI readiness.
• Proven ability to design and implement reliable data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain data pipelines across raw, structured, curated and semantic layers using Azure Databricks, Delta Lake, PySpark and Spark SQL
• Design medallion architecture patterns and semantic datasets for BI reporting and AI use cases
• Develop, maintain and improve ETL processes, tools and code
• Monitor pipeline performance, resolve data issues and validate outputs against business rules
• Implement data quality, reconciliation, testing, lineage and access-control practices
• Build reports and dashboards and automate repeatable data requests and processes
• Contribute to CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code across Databricks and Azure
• Provide technical guidance, coaching and QA across the team

Skills

Azure Databricks

Delta Lake

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2

PySpark

Spark SQL

Power BI Service

SQL

CI/CD

Terraform

Python

Data Warehousing

Data Governance

Team leadership

Education

Relevant qualification in computer science, mathematics, statistics or related discipline

Tools

Azure Databricks

Delta Lake

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2

Power BI Service

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Databricks Workflows

Job description

Whānau Āwhina Plunket is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to own and evolve data warehouses, dashboards and data products. In our Azure Databricks, Delta Lake and Power BI environment, you will lead data engineering efforts and set standards for pipelines, testing and deployment.

You will provide hands-on delivery alongside technical leadership, collaborate across teams, and help turn complex business needs into practical data solutions that empower trusted reporting and decision-making.