Senior Data Engineer / Engineering Lead
Summary
Hands-on data engineering leadership role with a major New Zealand public sector organisation in Wellington: design production data products and Medallion Architecture pipelines in Microsoft Fabric (OneLake, Lakehouses, Dataflows Gen2, PySpark) and establish governance via Microsoft Purview. Immediate part-time start transitioning to full-time.
Senior Data Engineer / Engineering Lead Microsoft Fabric Public Sector
Pearson Carter are currently working with a major enterprise public sector organisation looking to strengthen its data engineering capability across a modern Microsoft Fabric environment.
They are seeking a Senior Data Engineer / Engineering Lead to deliver production-ready data products, lead ingestion and ETL/ELT patterns, and establish robust Medallion Architecture and governance practices across the platform.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role working across Microsoft Fabric, OneLake, Lakehouses, Data Warehouses, PySpark, Python, and Microsoft Purview.
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Responsibilities
- Design and deliver production-grade data products
- Implement Medallion Architecture across Fabric and OneLake
- Build scalable pipelines using Fabric Dataflows Gen2, Pipelines and PySpark
- Develop ingestion and ETL/ELT frameworks
- Support data lineage, metadata, security, and governance through Purview
- Validate Fabric capacity, workspace configuration, and platform readiness
- Work closely with architects and technical stakeholders
Experience
- Strong hands-on Microsoft Fabric experience
- OneLake, Lakehouse, Dataflows Gen2 and Fabric Pipelines
- Strong PySpark, Python, T-SQL and Delta Lake skills
- Experience with Medallion Architecture and dimensional modelling
- Microsoft Purview experience
- Experience with enterprise or public sector data environments
- Matillion experience is highly desirable
Location
Wellington
Engagement
Immediate part-time start, transitioning into full-time.
Applications are welcome from Senior Data Engineers and Engineering Leads with strong Microsoft Fabric and Azure Lakehouse experience.