Senior Data Platform Engineer & Lead Consultant

Theta (NZ); Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Fully subsidised medical insurance

Parental leave

Staff Assistance Programme

Remote working options

INZ accredited

Job summary

Theta (NZ) is seeking an experienced Lead Data Consultant to join our Data and Insights Practice, based in Wellington or Auckland. You’ll lead end-to-end data platform builds with a strong data engineering focus, partnering with clients, solution architects, and delivery teams to deliver reliable, production-grade pipelines that enable measurable business outcomes.

We welcome candidates with strong delivery experience on Databricks, Snowflake, Fabric, and related Azure services, and a commitment

Qualifications

• Eight years of data engineering experience delivering enterprise-scale data platforms.
• Strong experience on Databricks, Snowflake, Fabric or similar platforms with Azure services.
• Proficient in Python and SQL, with production-grade data pipelines.
• Git, CI/CD, DevOps/DataOps practices and testing frameworks.
• Excellent stakeholder communication and leadership abilities.
• Experience mentoring team members and leading technical initiatives.
• Certifications (Microsoft/Databricks/Snowflake) or commitment to ongoing learning.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end design, build and operation of modern data platforms.
• Develop reliable data pipelines and transformations for analytics and AI use cases.
• Shape architecture patterns (medallion, curated layers) and reusable data products.
• Write clean Python and SQL aligned with engineering standards and testing.
• Institute automated tests, monitoring, validation, and performance tuning.
• Conduct technical discovery and translate business needs into scope and deliverables.
• Collaborate with architects, delivery teams and client stakeholders; provide status reporting.
• Mentor peers, contribute to Theta templates/assets, and promote best practices.

Skills

Databricks

Snowflake

Fabric

Python

SQL

Git

CI/CD

DataOps

DevOps

Azure services

Stakeholder engagement

Mentoring

Tools

Python tooling

Delta Lake

Job description

Theta (NZ) is seeking an experienced Lead Data Consultant to join our Data and Insights Practice, based in Wellington or Auckland. You’ll lead end-to-end data platform builds with a strong data engineering focus, partnering with clients, solution architects, and delivery teams to deliver reliable, production-grade pipelines that enable measurable business outcomes.

We welcome candidates with strong delivery experience on Databricks, Snowflake, Fabric, and related Azure services, and a commitment