Senior Data Engineer — Lead Modern Data Platform & AI

Marketplace; Wellington; Hybrid; NZD 134,000 - 163,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

5 weeks annual leave

Flexible working arrangements

Life, Income Protection and Critical 


Illness insurance

Job summary

NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to lead the design and delivery of enterprise data solutions that support decision-making, analytics, and AI. You will shape NZTA's modern data platform, coach engineers, and influence engineering practices across squads and programmes.

This permanent, full-time role can be based in any NZTA office location and offers a salary from $133,632 to $163,328 depending on skills and experience.

Qualifications

• Significant experience designing, building and operating enterprise-scale data platforms and pipelines.
• Advanced SQL and Python with Databricks.
• Experience with modern cloud-based data platforms, Lakehouse and medallion patterns.
• Experience delivering analytics, BI, ML use cases.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of enterprise data solutions and data products.
• Shape NZTA's modern data platform and engineering practices.
• Coach and mentor data engineers across squads.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure scalable, secure data solutions.

Skills

Advanced SQL

Python

Databricks

Cloud platforms

Data governance

DataOps

Observability

Stakeholder influence

Mentoring

Lakehouse patterns

Tools

Airflow

DBT

Azure Data Lake

SQL Server

Job description

NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to lead the design and delivery of enterprise data solutions that support decision-making, analytics, and AI. You will shape NZTA's modern data platform, coach engineers, and influence engineering practices across squads and programmes.

This permanent, full-time role can be based in any NZTA office location and offers a salary from $133,632 to $163,328 depending on skills and experience.