Senior Data Engineer - Hybrid, Client-Facing Pipelines

Synergia Ltd; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Synergia Ltd in Auckland is seeking a Data Engineer to strengthen our analytics backbone, designing, building, and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines across diverse client sources and the data warehouse. You will scope pipelines from ambiguous starting points, communicate trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders, and balance multiple projects while staying close to client work.

Office-based with some work-from-home days, we value collaboration and practical problem-solving in a multidisciplinary,

Qualifications

• Degree in data science, computer science, statistics, or related field.
• 3+ years of relevant data engineering experience.
• Strong SQL skills and ETL/ELT pipeline experience.
• Experience with cloud data platforms and data warehousing.
• Python and/or R for data processing; Git version control.
• Ability to explain technical decisions to non-technical stakeholders.
• Prior consulting or client-facing experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines from diverse sources into the data warehouse.
• Automate data quality checks and documentation.
• Collaborate with client data managers to resolve data issues.
• Support data prep for analysis and reporting.
• Contribute to scoping documents and client proposals.
• Manage multiple projects across clients and data maturities.

Skills

SQL

ETL/ELT pipelines

Cloud data infrastructure

Python or R

Polars / pandas / tidyverse

Git

Explaining decisions to non-technical

Consulting / client-facing

Data governance basics

Education

Degree in data science / CS / stats

Tools

AWS

Snowflake

Terraform

Airflow

Job description

Synergia Ltd in Auckland is seeking a Data Engineer to strengthen our analytics backbone, designing, building, and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines across diverse client sources and the data warehouse. You will scope pipelines from ambiguous starting points, communicate trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders, and balance multiple projects while staying close to client work.

Office-based with some work-from-home days, we value collaboration and practical problem-solving in a multidisciplinary,