Senior Data Engineering Leader: AI & Cloud Platforms

Fidelity Life; Auckland; On-site; NZD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Fidelity Life in Auckland seeks a Senior Data Engineering Manager to lead and grow our data engineering capability, ensuring secure, scalable data platforms that enable analytics, AI and enterprise decision-making. You will set patterns, roadmaps and ways of working, advancing cloud data engineering and real-time integration.

You'll mentor a diverse team, collaborate with Technology leadership, governance and business units, and drive data platform decisions across finance, actuarial, reporting,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, information systems, data management or related field.
• Certifications in Microsoft, AWS or Google Data Engineering or Architecture are advantageous.
• 15+ years in data engineering, architecture or data platforms with cloud experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor and develop a diverse team of data engineers and data platform specialists.
• Translate the Enterprise Data & AI strategy into an actionable engineering capability and technology roadmap.
• Define data and AI engineering practices and standards with Tech leadership.
• Make data platform decisions across digital, policy, finance, actuarial, reporting, pricing and underwriting.
• Lead quarterly change delivery and align stakeholders for efficient execution.
• Design the platform roadmap focusing on cost optimisation and sustainability.
• Develop patterns, recipes and designs that are maintainable, scalable and secure.
• Ensure alignment with governance, security, architecture and operational principles.

Skills

Microsoft Fabric

Lakehouse architecture

Spark

SQL

Python

Event-driven architecture

Domain-driven design

Stakeholder management

AI design

GitHub Copilot

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science / Information Systems / related field

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

Lakehouse architecture

Spark

Job description

Fidelity Life in Auckland seeks a Senior Data Engineering Manager to lead and grow our data engineering capability, ensuring secure, scalable data platforms that enable analytics, AI and enterprise decision-making. You will set patterns, roadmaps and ways of working, advancing cloud data engineering and real-time integration.

You'll mentor a diverse team, collaborate with Technology leadership, governance and business units, and drive data platform decisions across finance, actuarial, reporting,