Data Engineering Jobs in New Zealand
There are 292 open Data Engineering jobs in New Zealand on freehire right now. 181 of them were posted recently. The skills employers ask for most often are analytics, data-engineering and cloud.
Salary
| Currency | Period | 25th | Median | 75th | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NZD | year | NZ$140,620 | NZ$148,480 | NZ$162,030 | 22 |
From postings that disclose pay. Currencies are counted separately, never converted.
Most requested skills
- analytics 58%
- data-engineering 54%
- cloud 52%
- data-pipelines 50%
- sql 48%
- python 41%
- ai 35%
- ci-cd 32%
How the work is done
- Hybrid 55 · 19%
- Onsite 20 · 7%
- Remote 14 · 5%
Visa sponsorship offered in 4% of the 28 postings that state a position on it.
Seniority
- Senior 118
- Lead 44
- Principal 11
- C-level 3
- Intern 3
Who is hiring
- 1000+ employees 24
- 501-1000 employees 22
- 11-50 employees 5
- 51-200 employees 5
- 201-500 employees 2
Senior Cloud Data Engineer — GCP & BigQuery Specialist
Lead the hands-on design and delivery of a GCP data platform and analytics capabilities, building secure, scalable cloud and data solutions. You will modernize legacy workloads using BigQuery, Terraform, Dataform, and dbt.
Data Engineer (Databricks specialist)
Data Engineer specializing in Databricks, building data engineering solutions for diverse clients on-site in Auckland or Wellington, primarily using Google Cloud Platform.
Data Engineer (Databricks specialist)
Data Engineer specializing in Databricks, building data engineering solutions for consulting clients across diverse industries using Databricks and GCP as the primary stack.
Senior Data Engineer: Lead Data Pipelines & Mentorship
Senior Data Engineer at Westpac Bank designing scalable data pipelines, mentoring a squad, and ensuring reliable service delivery using Hadoop, Spark, Airflow, and Terraform in an Agile/DevOps environment.
Senior Data Engineer
Design, build, and maintain cloud-based data pipelines for regulatory reporting (FATCA, CRS, PTR) using Python, PySpark, SQL, and AWS services like Glue and S3.
Senior Data Engineer - 8 month contractor
Senior Data Engineer on an 8-month contract building and maintaining banking data platforms, primarily using the Hadoop stack (HDFS, Spark) and Airflow for data orchestration within a large bank's technology team.
Senior Cloud Data Platform Engineer – Flexible Growth
Build and maintain a modern cloud-based data platform for a bank, writing code and tests while applying agile delivery and DevSecOps practices to enable AI adoption across the organization.
Senior Data Engineer - Regulatory Data Pipelines (PySpark)
Designs, builds and maintains data pipelines for regulatory reporting (FATCA, CRS, PTR) using Python, PySpark, Scala, SQL, and AWS services like Glue, S3, RDS/Aurora.
Databricks Data Engineer — AI & Analytics Specialist
A Databricks-focused Data Engineer delivering advanced data engineering solutions for NZ clients, with experience in GCP/AWS, SAP S/4HANA, and SAP Datasphere.
Senior Data Engineer | Spark, Airflow & Mentorship
Senior Data Engineer mentoring a squad and scaling data platforms for a bank, working with Hadoop, Spark, Airflow, Terraform, CI/CD, and CDC/streaming data.
Senior Data Engineer - 8 month contractor
Senior Data Engineer on an 8-month contract at Westpac NZ, working across the Hadoop stack (HDFS, Spark), Airflow, Terraform, and CI/CD to build and maintain data platforms that support innovative banking products, while mentoring other engineers.
Lead Databricks Data Engineer – Hybrid Lakehouse & AI
Lead Data Consultant responsible for end-to-end builds of modern data solutions using Databricks, collaborating closely with client stakeholders, solution architects, and delivery teams.
Associate Data Engineer (Power BI) — Dashboards & Pipelines
Build Power BI dashboards and support data pipelines at a pharmaceutical company, using SQL, Python, and Azure/Microsoft Fabric to deliver BI solutions and enable self-service reporting.
Senior Cloud Data Engineer
Hands-on Senior Cloud Data Engineer designing and building GCP infrastructure and data solutions using Terraform, BigQuery, and dbt/Dataform for a New Zealand grocery retail cooperative.
Data Platform Lead & DevOps Champion
Lead a DevOps team and own the performance, delivery, and continuous improvement of Data technology platforms at a New Zealand government housing agency, championing platform engineering, automation, and DevOps practices.