Senior Data Engineer: Build Modern Data Platform on Azure

The University of Waikato; Hamilton; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Waikato in Hamilton is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build and operate our new enterprise data platform leveraging Databricks on Azure.

You will lead complex data ingestion and migrations, mentor team members, and help shape data engineering practices while aligning with security and privacy standards. This full-time role offers the chance to influence analytics and AI initiatives across the university.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of data engineering experience building production cloud data pipelines.
• Strong SQL and Python with incremental ingestion and CDC.
• Experience with Databricks, Fabric or Snowflake and data integration.

Responsibilities

• Build and run our new enterprise data platform.
• Lead complex data integration and migration efforts.
• Mentor others and shape modern data engineering practices.
• Design and operate production data pipelines across university systems.

Skills

Data engineering

SQL

Python

DataOps

Cloud data platforms

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

Databricks

Microsoft Fabric

Snowflake

Git

CI/CD

Automated Testing

Job description

The University of Waikato in Hamilton is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build and operate our new enterprise data platform leveraging Databricks on Azure.

You will lead complex data ingestion and migrations, mentor team members, and help shape data engineering practices while aligning with security and privacy standards. This full-time role offers the chance to influence analytics and AI initiatives across the university.