Senior Data Engineer – Microsoft Fabric & Azure Data

Provoke Solutions; New Zealand; On-site; NZD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Provoke Solutions in New Zealand seeks a Senior Data Engineer to design and deliver modern data platforms centered on Microsoft Fabric within enterprise settings. You will work with diverse clients to build secure, scalable data solutions, enabling analytics and AI workloads while guiding implementation and mentoring engineers.

The role blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership and customer engagement, focusing on Lakehouse, analytics readiness and data governance across Azure data

Qualifications

• 4-6+ years' commercial experience delivering Data solutions.
• Proven experience designing and implementing Microsoft Fabric solutions within enterprise environments.
• Strong consulting skills, with experience working directly with customers to design and deliver technical solutions.
• Strong SQL and Python development skills.
• Experience designing modern cloud-based data platforms and enterprise data architectures.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and business stakeholders.
• A collaborative mindset and a genuine passion for mentoring and sharing knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement modern Microsoft Fabric data platforms from architecture through to production.
• Build scalable ingestion, transformation and orchestration pipelines that deliver trusted, high-quality data.
• Design Lakehouse, Warehouse and semantic data models that support enterprise reporting, analytics and decision making.
• Work directly with customers to understand business challenges, facilitate workshops and translate requirements into practical technical solutions.
• Provide technical leadership across delivery teams through architecture guidance, mentoring and engineering best practice.
• Champion modern engineering disciplines including source control, CI/CD, automation, testing and operational excellence.
• Collaborate with AI and Software Engineering teams to ensure data platforms are optimised for advanced analytics, machine learning and future AI workloads.
• Continuously improve delivery approaches, reusable assets and engineering standards across the practice.

Job description

Provoke Solutions in New Zealand seeks a Senior Data Engineer to design and deliver modern data platforms centered on Microsoft Fabric within enterprise settings. You will work with diverse clients to build secure, scalable data solutions, enabling analytics and AI workloads while guiding implementation and mentoring engineers.

The role blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership and customer engagement, focusing on Lakehouse, analytics readiness and data governance across Azure data