Senior Data Platform Consultant: Databricks&Fabric(Hybrid)

Digitalgarage; New Zealand; Hybrid; NZD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangements

Birthday leave

Volunteer days

Social club

Inclusive team culture

Job summary

Digitalgarage in New Zealand is seeking a Senior Consultant to lead end-to-end data platform builds using Databricks and Microsoft Fabric, delivering across ingestion, transformation, and medallion architecture. You’ll own workstreams, engage clients, and mentor junior engineers to raise delivery quality.

The role blends hands-on engineering with consulting, AI tooling, and data migrations for Dynamics 365, Power BI, and broader analytics initiatives, with hybrid flexibility across NZ.

Qualifications

• 5+ years hands-on data engineering experience in data platforms or analytics
• Deep technical capability in Databricks (Delta, workflows, Autoloader) or Microsoft Fabric (lakehouse, DirectLake, pipelines)
• Strong SQL, Python, PySpark skills and modern ETL/ELT design
• Experience applying DevOps practices (Git, CI/CD, environment promotion)
• Excellent consulting skills: requirements gathering, workshops, estimating, stakeholder communication
• Familiarity with AI engineering tools, Power BI, semantic modelling, dbt, or Dynamics 365 data migrations
• Relevant certifications (Databricks Certified Data Engineer, Microsoft Fabric DP-600/DP-700, Azure Data Engineer DP-203) valued

Responsibilities

• Designing and delivering modern data platforms using Databricks and Microsoft Fabric, spanning ingestion, transformation, and medallion architecture.
• Owning workstreams end-to-end—managing scope, quality, and delivery timelines from design through UAT, deployment, and handover.
• Engaging directly with clients to gather requirements, run technical sessions, produce estimates, and manage stakeholders.
• Collaborating across practice areas on data migrations, including Dynamics 365 projects.
• Applying AI tools to streamline engineering workflows and help clients adopt AI on solid data foundations.
• Mentoring junior engineers, sharing knowledge, and contributing to reusable engineering patterns and standards.

Skills

Databricks

Microsoft Fabric

SQL

Python

PySpark

ETL/ELT

Medallion modelling

DevOps CI/CD

Consulting

AI engineering tools

Power BI

dbt

Dynamics 365 data migrations

Tools

Databricks

Microsoft Fabric

Job description

Digitalgarage in New Zealand is seeking a Senior Consultant to lead end-to-end data platform builds using Databricks and Microsoft Fabric, delivering across ingestion, transformation, and medallion architecture. You’ll own workstreams, engage clients, and mentor junior engineers to raise delivery quality.

The role blends hands-on engineering with consulting, AI tooling, and data migrations for Dynamics 365, Power BI, and broader analytics initiatives, with hybrid flexibility across NZ.