Senior Data Engineer — Lead Pipelines & Innovation

Westpac New Zealand Ltd; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Westpac New Zealand Ltd. is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to lead design and delivery of data solutions within our squad, mentoring others and ensuring robust, compliant service delivery.

You will work with business stakeholders to translate needs into scalable data architectures and maintain strong partnerships across technology teams. You will bring 5+ years in data or platform engineering, deep Hadoop/ Spark stack, Airflow orchestration, and secure SDLC practices, with Agile/DevOps

Qualifications

• 5+ years in data engineering, platform engineering or related technical discipline.
• Solid understanding of CDC and data streaming patterns.
• Awareness of secure software development practices for handling sensitive data.
• Experience with Terraform, CI/CD pipelines and containerisation.
• Demonstrated ability to assess new technologies and vendor solutions and recommend improvements.
• Proven ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical issues across the application lifecycle.
• Strong QA, testing framework knowledge and drive for continuous improvement.
• Tertiary qualification in CS/IS/Engineering or related field; professional certifications preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor, support and grow engineers.
• Comfortable working in Agile delivery and modern DevOps environments.

Responsibilities

• Provide mentorship and guidance to engineers within the squad.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure high levels of service delivery and risk/compliance focus.
• Design and deliver scalable data architectures and banking product data solutions.
• Evaluate new technologies and vendor solutions and recommend improvements.
• Diagnose and resolve complex technical issues across the application lifecycle.
• Promote quality assurance and continuous improvement within the team.

Skills

Hadoop Stack

Airflow

CDC Patterns

Secure SDLC

Terraform

CI/CD

Containerisation

Mentoring

Agile/DevOps

Education

Tertiary degree in CS/IS/Engineering

Tools

Airflow

Terraform

CI/CD

Containerisation

Hadoop (HDFS/Spark)

Job description

Westpac New Zealand Ltd. is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to lead design and delivery of data solutions within our squad, mentoring others and ensuring robust, compliant service delivery.

You will work with business stakeholders to translate needs into scalable data architectures and maintain strong partnerships across technology teams. You will bring 5+ years in data or platform engineering, deep Hadoop/ Spark stack, Airflow orchestration, and secure SDLC practices, with Agile/DevOps