Senior Data Platform Engineer: Databricks & Fabric

Fusion5; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Collaborative culture

Flexible work arrangements

Birthday leave

Volunteer days

Social events

Growth opportunities

Job summary

Fusion5 is seeking a Senior Consultant – Databricks / Fabric to join our New Zealand Data & Analytics team, based in Auckland with flexible, hybrid working. You’ll own delivery end-to-end, working directly with clients to build modern data platforms and drive data migration and AI-enabled initiatives.

You’ll bring 5+ years of hands-on data engineering, deep knowledge of Databricks or Fabric, strong SQL/Python skills, and the ability to shape solutions with architects and consultants in a

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on data engineering experience with strong delivery on Databricks (Delta, workflows, Autoloader) or Microsoft Fabric (lakehouse, DirectLake, pipelines) — credible in the other, and keen to build depth across both.
• Strong SQL and Python/PySpark, with solid ETL/ELT pipeline design and data modelling.
• Hands-on design and build with lakehouse / medallion architecture.
• DevOps practices — Git, CI/CD and environment promotion.
• Strong consulting skills — requirements gathering, working sessions, independent estimating and clear client communication, with the confidence to own a workstream.
• Confident, practical use of AI in your day-to-day work, and an interest in where AI is heading for our clients.
• The legal right to work in New Zealand with the ability to engage with clients across the country.

Responsibilities

• Build the platform. Deliver modern data platforms on Databricks or Microsoft Fabric — ingestion, transformation, lakehouse/medallion design, modelling and optimisation
• Own the delivery. Take workstreams end to end, from design and build through test/UAT, deployment and handover, managing your own scope, quality and timelines
• Work with clients. Gather requirements, run working sessions, produce estimates and keep stakeholders close throughout delivery
• Flex across the work. Move between platform build and data migration streams such as D365 (CRM and F&O), delivered with our Business Applications teams
• Use AI. Apply AI in your day-to-day work to deliver better and faster, and help clients adopt practical AI on well-built data foundations
• Share what you know. Contribute to our engineering standards, reusable patterns and knowledge base, and coach more junior engineers

Skills

Databricks

Microsoft Fabric

SQL

Python/PySpark

ETL/ELT design

Data modelling

DevOps CI/CD

Client communication

AI in data projects

Tools

Git

Terraform

Power BI

dbt

Job description

Fusion5 is seeking a Senior Consultant – Databricks / Fabric to join our New Zealand Data & Analytics team, based in Auckland with flexible, hybrid working. You’ll own delivery end-to-end, working directly with clients to build modern data platforms and drive data migration and AI-enabled initiatives.

You’ll bring 5+ years of hands-on data engineering, deep knowledge of Databricks or Fabric, strong SQL/Python skills, and the ability to shape solutions with architects and consultants in a