Data Engineering Jobs in New Zealand
There are 293 open Data Engineering jobs in New Zealand on freehire right now. 182 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 49%
- sql 47%
- python 41%
- ai 35%
- ci-cd 31%
How the work is done
- Hybrid 56 · 19%
- Onsite 20 · 7%
- Remote 14 · 5%
Visa sponsorship offered in 4% of the 28 postings that state a position on it.
Seniority
- Senior 119
- 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
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.
Data Platform Lead — Secure, Scalable 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 modern platform engineering, automation, and secure, scalable DevOps practices.
Senior Data Engineer: Mentorship, Data Platform & DevOps
Senior Data Engineer mentoring a squad at Westpac NZ, collaborating with stakeholders to deliver innovative banking products using Hadoop, Airflow, CDC patterns, Terraform, CI/CD, and containerisation within an Agile and DevOps framework.
Platform Lead – Data Platform & DevOps Excellence
Lead a data platform and DevOps team at a government housing agency, driving platform engineering, automation, governance, and ITSM for secure, scalable data services.
Data Platform Lead & DevOps Champion
Lead a DevOps team to own and improve data technology platforms, championing modern platform engineering, automation, and ITSM practices for a government housing agency.
Data Engineer
Hands-on Data Engineer at an Auckland consultancy designing and building scalable data pipelines and models using dbt and Databricks, while directly engaging clients to translate business needs into technical solutions.
Data Platform Lead: DevOps for Scale & Platform Excellence
The Data Platform Lead will oversee the performance and continuous improvement of data technology platforms at Kāinga Ora. This role involves leading DevOps and platform engineering teams to implement automation and align technical roadmaps with business strategy.
Data Engineer
Designs, builds, and ensures reliability of data pipelines and warehouse models for an agribusiness software company, resolving data issues and mentoring junior engineers while collaborating across teams.
Senior Data Engineer - Enterprise Data Platform
Senior Data Engineer building and operating an Enterprise Data Platform using Snowflake, Informatica, and Airflow, designing scalable data pipelines and mentoring within a Data & Analytics team in Wellington.
Senior Data Engineer - Hybrid, Client-Facing Pipelines
Builds and maintains ETL/ELT pipelines for client data sources, collaborating with stakeholders to scope and optimize workflows while managing hybrid office/remote work.
Principal Data Engineer
Lead enterprise-wide data engineering at NZTA, designing scalable Databricks-based platforms and mentoring teams to enable analytics, AI, and governance across the transport agency.
Principal Data Engineer
Principal Data Engineer providing enterprise-wide technical leadership across data platforms, governance, and delivery at NZ Transport Agency, using Databricks, cloud-based Lakehouse architectures, and SQL/Python/Scala/R.
Senior Data Engineer
Senior Data Engineer owning data pipelines, warehouses and dashboards in an Azure Databricks/Delta Lake/Power BI stack for a New Zealand children's health nonprofit.
Kaipūhanga Raraunga Mātāmua Senior Data Engineer
Senior Data Engineer at Z Energy designing and building data pipelines, data models, and customer data solutions using Databricks, Snowflake, Azure and Terraform to support loyalty and CRM capabilities.
Kaipūhanga Raraunga Mātāmua Senior Data Engineer
Senior Data Engineer designing and building data pipelines, data models and customer data solutions using Databricks, Snowflake, Azure and Terraform to support loyalty and CRM capabilities across the Ampol/Z Group.
Data Engineer
Hands-on Data Engineer designing and building modern data platforms using Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, and Azure, developing data pipelines and models with Python, SQL, and Spark/PySpark across multiple client environments.