Senior Data Engineer: Scale Data Pipelines & Cloud DW

Serko Ltd; Auckland; On-site; NZD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

KiwiSaver

Health Insurance (Southern Cross)

Wellbeing programs

Learning & development platform

Job summary

Serko Ltd seeks a Senior Data Engineer to shape and scale our modern data platform. You will own ingestion, transformation, orchestration and data quality to provide reliable, secure data solutions that empower teams across the business.

You’ll collaborate with Architects, Platform and Security teams, build end-to-end pipelines using dbt, SQL, Python and PowerShell, and deploy on Snowflake and BigQuery in Azure and Google Cloud. This role involves design, governance and on-call rotations.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in data warehousing and modern data engineering.
• Experience with cloud data warehouses (Snowflake or equivalent).
• Hands-on coding expertise in SQL, Python and dbt.
• Strong understanding of data governance, metadata management and security.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Architects and Principal Engineers to design scalable data solutions within a small team.
• Build, maintain, and optimise data pipelines across batch and streaming workloads.
• Coordinate with Platform, Architecture, and Security teams for performance, security, durability and scalability.
• Develop robust data models using dbt and orchestrate workflows on Azure and Google Cloud.
• Manage and enhance cloud data warehouses in Snowflake and BigQuery.
• Ensure data governance, cataloguing and observability best practices.
• Write clean code in dbt, SQL, Python and PowerShell; improve existing SQL/PowerShell/Python.
• Work with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful data products.
• Participate in light rotating on-call schedule (about one week per month).

Skills

Data modeling

SQL

Python

PowerShell

dbt

Agile development

DevOps culture

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Snowflake

BigQuery

Azure & Google Cloud

Job description

Serko Ltd seeks a Senior Data Engineer to shape and scale our modern data platform. You will own ingestion, transformation, orchestration and data quality to provide reliable, secure data solutions that empower teams across the business.

You’ll collaborate with Architects, Platform and Security teams, build end-to-end pipelines using dbt, SQL, Python and PowerShell, and deploy on Snowflake and BigQuery in Azure and Google Cloud. This role involves design, governance and on-call rotations.