Senior Data Engineer: Lead Data Pipelines & Mentorship

Westpac Bank; Auckland; On-site; NZD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Westpac New Zealand seeks a Senior Data Engineer to mentor a squad, design scalable data pipelines and ensure reliable service delivery across platforms.

You will work with stakeholders to align data architectures with risk and compliance requirements, leverage the Hadoop stack, Spark, Airflow, and Terraform, and drive continuous improvement in engineering practices within an Agile/DevOps environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in data engineering or related roles.
• Strong knowledge of Hadoop, Spark, and data streaming.
• Experience with secure software development practices for handling sensitive data.

Responsibilities

• Mentor engineers and guide squads to deliver high-quality data products.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure risk and compliance are front of mind.
• Design scalable data pipelines and maintain service reliability.

Skills

Hadoop

Airflow

Mentoring

Agile delivery

DevOps

Education

Degree in CS/IS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD

Containers

Job description

Westpac New Zealand seeks a Senior Data Engineer to mentor a squad, design scalable data pipelines and ensure reliable service delivery across platforms.

You will work with stakeholders to align data architectures with risk and compliance requirements, leverage the Hadoop stack, Spark, Airflow, and Terraform, and drive continuous improvement in engineering practices within an Agile/DevOps environment.