Senior Databricks Data Engineer Lead | Hybrid NZ

JobSpace; Wellington; Hybrid; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model – 2 days in the:

Fully subsidised medical insurance

Remote working options where practical

Enhanced parental leave payment

Staff Assistance Programme

Sick leave from first day

INZ accredited employer

Job summary

Theta is seeking an experienced Lead Data Consultant to join the Data and Insights Practice in Auckland. The role focuses on end-to-end data platform delivery using Databricks, Azure, and Microsoft Fabric, with a strong data engineering emphasis and close collaboration with client stakeholders.

You will design and build scalable data pipelines, apply Medallion Architecture, mentor teammates, and contribute to reusable delivery assets while ensuring high quality and measurable business outcomes.

Qualifications

• Eight+ years of data engineering experience delivering enterprise scale data platforms.
• Three+ years of hands-on Databricks experience.
• Strong knowledge of Delta Lake, Medallion Architecture and scalable solution design.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimise data pipelines across Lakehouse and warehouse patterns.
• Develop robust data transformations for reporting, analytics, and AI use cases.
• Deliver production-grade solutions using Databricks notebooks, workflows, Delta Live Tables and Lakeflow.
• Produce clean SQL/Python data solutions meeting engineering standards.
• Implement automated testing, monitoring, data validation and performance tuning.
• Apply modern data modelling and Medallion Architecture to create scalable data products.
• Lead technical discovery and solution walkthroughs translating business needs into engineering scope.
• Collaborate with architects and delivery teams on design, estimates, sequencing and plans.
• Provide clear progress updates on risks and blockers to stakeholders.
• Mentor team members and contribute to delivery assets and templates.

Skills

Data engineering

Stakeholder engagement

Azure

Databricks

Medallion Architecture

Python

SQL

Tools

Databricks

Azure

Microsoft Fabric

Git

CI/CD

DevOps

Lakehouse

Job description

Theta is seeking an experienced Lead Data Consultant to join the Data and Insights Practice in Auckland. The role focuses on end-to-end data platform delivery using Databricks, Azure, and Microsoft Fabric, with a strong data engineering emphasis and close collaboration with client stakeholders.

You will design and build scalable data pipelines, apply Medallion Architecture, mentor teammates, and contribute to reusable delivery assets while ensuring high quality and measurable business outcomes.