Data Engineering Team Lead - Space-Scale Data Platforms
Summary
Rocket Lab is hiring a Data Engineering Team Lead in Auckland to manage a team building the data platform behind launch operations, simulations, and ground systems. The work spans end-to-end data engineering — ingestion, storage, and presentation — with emphasis on reliability and documentation; core tech includes Python.
Rocket Lab seeks a Team Lead - Data Engineering to manage a high-performing team delivering the data platform that underpins launch operations, simulations, and ground systems. You will guide end-to-end data engineering across ingestion, storage, and presentation, emphasizing reliability and documentation.
Required are a software engineering background with 8+ years’ experience, strong Python, and experience shaping data platform architectures.