Senior Manager - Data Engineering
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We're seeking an experienced people leader to lead a growing Data Engineering function within one of NZ's largest and most complex data environments.
This is a rare opportunity to shape the future of enterprise data capability as the organisation continues its journey towards a modern data platform while bringing together data and analytics capability from across a diverse and evolving business.
You'll lead a multidisciplinary team and play a key role in developing engineering capability, establishing best practice, driving platform modernisation, and ensuring data teams are set up for long-term success.
About the role
This is a leadership role where success will come from your ability to balance people leadership, technical credibility, stakeholder engagement, and transformation delivery.
You will:
You will bring:
Why apply?
This role offers the opportunity to work with some of the most diverse datasets in NZ, across multiple business functions and services that impact communities every day.
You'll join a team on a significant transformation journey and have the opportunity to:
If you’re starting to think about a career change but aren’t quite sure whether now is the right time, I’d still love to hear from you. Happy to have a confidential conversation about this opportunity, what you might be looking for next, and other similar senior engineering roles in the market. If you’re even a little curious, feel free to apply and we can connect.
#SCR-kelly-cappel
This is a rare opportunity to shape the future of enterprise data capability as the organisation continues its journey towards a modern data platform while bringing together data and analytics capability from across a diverse and evolving business.
You'll lead a multidisciplinary team and play a key role in developing engineering capability, establishing best practice, driving platform modernisation, and ensuring data teams are set up for long-term success.
About the role
This is a leadership role where success will come from your ability to balance people leadership, technical credibility, stakeholder engagement, and transformation delivery.
You will:
- Lead and develop a team of Data Engineers and data professionals, building capability, engagement and technical excellence
- Drive the transition from legacy platforms to a modern cloud-based data ecosystem
- Establish scalable, sustainable and repeatable data engineering standards, frameworks and practices
- Partner with senior stakeholders to align data engineering priorities with business outcomes
- Support the development of enterprise-wide data capability and maturity
- Contribute to data strategy, platform roadmap development and future-state architecture decisions
- Foster a collaborative culture where engineers, analysts and technical specialists can learn from each other and deliver greater impact
You will bring:
- Significant experience leading technical teams within data, analytics or engineering environments
- A strong track record of coaching, mentoring and developing technical professionals
- Experience leading change, transformation, platform modernisation or migration initiatives
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence across technical and non-technical audiences
- Solid understanding of modern data engineering practices, platforms and data architecture principles
- The ability to balance strategic thinking with practical delivery outcomes
- A genuine passion for building high-performing teams and improving organisational capability
- Experience with technologies such as Snowflake, Databricks, dbt, Fivetran, Power BI or similar modern data platforms
Why apply?
This role offers the opportunity to work with some of the most diverse datasets in NZ, across multiple business functions and services that impact communities every day.
You'll join a team on a significant transformation journey and have the opportunity to:
- Lead a growing and evolving team
- Influence enterprise-wide data strategy
- Drive meaningful organisational change
- Shape modern data engineering practices
- Work on complex and varied data challenges at scale
- Develop the next generation of data and analytics talent
If you’re starting to think about a career change but aren’t quite sure whether now is the right time, I’d still love to hear from you. Happy to have a confidential conversation about this opportunity, what you might be looking for next, and other similar senior engineering roles in the market. If you’re even a little curious, feel free to apply and we can connect.
#SCR-kelly-cappel