Technical Delivery Lead: Data & Databricks Expert

Potentia

Christchurch

On-site

NZD 150,000 - 190,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

Potentia is seeking an experienced Technical Lead to join Christchurch's tech delivery team on a contract through to 30 June 2027, with an immediate start. This hands-on leadership role will guide multi-disciplinary teams, shape solution design and architecture, and keep delivery moving with developers, data specialists, and vendors.

You’ll bring strong Databricks expertise including Delta Lake, PySpark, Unity Catalog, and ETL/ELT pipelines, plus CI/CD with Azure DevOps or GitHub.

Qualifications

  • Experience leading multidisciplinary DevOps or technical delivery teams.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the technical delivery workstream and provide direction to a multidisciplinary team
  • Guide solution design, architecture and implementation
  • Provide technical leadership, coaching and mentoring
  • Work closely with delivery teams, stakeholders and vendors
  • Get hands-on with development and technical delivery when required
  • Identify and manage technical risks, issues and dependencies
  • Support quality, security and operational standards
  • Contribute to technical documentation and continuous improvement

Skills

Technical leadership
Mentoring
Stakeholder management
Communication
Hands-on delivery
DevOps leadership
Databricks
ETL/ELT data pipelines

Tools

Databricks
Delta Lake
Notebooks
SQL
Python/PySpark
Unity Catalog
Pipeline orchestration
Snowflake
Azure Synapse
Redshift
BigQuery
Power BI
Tableau
Azure DevOps
GitLab
GitHub
Spark

Job description

Potentia is seeking an experienced Technical Lead to join Christchurch's tech delivery team on a contract through to 30 June 2027, with an immediate start. This hands-on leadership role will guide multi-disciplinary teams, shape solution design and architecture, and keep delivery moving with developers, data specialists, and vendors.

You’ll bring strong Databricks expertise including Delta Lake, PySpark, Unity Catalog, and ETL/ELT pipelines, plus CI/CD with Azure DevOps or GitHub.

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