Data Engineering Jobs in New Zealand

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Principal Cloud Data Engineer | Kaipūhanga Raraunga Kapua Mātāmua at Statistics New Zealand

Automation Azure Azure DevOps Bicep CI/CD +17 skills

A principal-level technical leader who designs, builds, and evolves Stats NZ's cloud-native data platforms using Azure Databricks, Delta Lake, Apache Spark, and Azure services. The role leads platform modernisation and large-scale data migration (e.g., the IDI), providing architecture and engineering leadership while coaching teams and partnering with stakeholders across the organisation.

Senior data Engineer

New APACPart-timeSenior

AI Analytics Azure Azure Data Factory Azure DevOps +16 skills

Senior Data Engineer at Whānau Āwhina Plunket, a New Zealand children's health and wellbeing service, owning and extending data warehouses, pipelines, and dashboards in Azure Databricks, ADLS Gen2, and Power BI. Full-time permanent (part-time considered), based anywhere in New Zealand, with hands-on engineering plus technical leadership.

Plunket

Senior Data Engineer - Azure Databricks & Power BI Enablement

New APACPart-timeSenior

Azure Data Pipelines Databricks Delta Lake Power BI

Senior Data Engineer at Whānau Āwhina Plunket owning and extending data warehouses, reporting artefacts and data products. Day to day: leading data pipelines and BI datasets in Azure Databricks, Delta Lake and Power BI Service, with a focus on data reliability, governance and trusted reporting. Permanent role, NZ-based with remote flexibility.

Statistics New Zealand

Principal Cloud Data Engineer - IDI Modernisation

New APACPrincipal

Automation Azure Cloud Cloud Native Databricks +3 skills

Statistics New Zealand is hiring a Principal Cloud Data Engineer in Wellington to lead the design, build and modernisation of cloud-native data platforms, including large-scale migrations and automation in a multidisciplinary team. Core technologies are Azure Databricks, Delta Lake, Apache Spark and other Azure services, supporting secure, reliable government data platforms.

Heartland Bank LTD

Data Engineer: Build Scalable Data Platforms & Pipelines

Data Modeling Data Quality

Heartland Bank in Auckland is hiring a Data Engineer to maintain, optimise and evolve its enterprise data platform. Day to day the person builds and runs production data pipelines, does data modelling and quality work, and partners with analysts, scientists and BI developers to support decision-making and regulatory reporting.

RWA People

Senior Data Engineer & Snowflake Data Platform Architect

New HybridAPACSenior

A Senior Data Engineer in Christchurch (hybrid) who designs and owns a Snowflake-based data platform end to end — ingestion, transformation and modelling — delivering reliable data layers for business analysts while setting engineering standards and mentoring junior colleagues.

Data Ingestion Snowflake

The Warehouse

New HybridAPACFull-timeSenior

Senior Data Engineer at The Warehouse

Airflow Azure Azure DevOps CI/CD Cloud +16 skills

The Warehouse Group, NZ's largest general merchandise retailer, seeks a Senior Data Engineer in Auckland to design, build and optimise scalable data pipelines and enterprise data architecture on a modern cloud platform. Core stack includes Snowflake, dbt, Python, SQL, Azure and Airflow, plus mentoring other engineers.

Heartland Bank LTD

Data Engineer - Projects (Cloud Data Platform)

Analytics Azure Azure Data Factory Data Engineering dbt +3 skills

Heartland Bank is hiring a Data Engineer to deliver strategic data initiatives across its NZ and Australian banking operations, building scalable data products for regulatory reporting, finance analytics and platform migrations. Core stack: Snowflake, dbt, Azure Data Factory, Data Vault 2.0 and AtScale.

New Zealand Government

Data Engineer — Build Reliable Data Pipelines

Analytics Azure Azure Synapse Data Quality ELT +2 skills

Data Engineer at WorkSafe New Zealand (a government agency) who designs, builds and maintains ETL/ELT data pipelines and data infrastructure supporting reporting, analytics and decision-making, working with Azure Synapse and PySpark alongside analytics, architecture and security teams.

SmartRecruiters, Inc.

Data Engineer

AI Analytics Cloud Data Engineering Data Modeling +9 skills

Data Engineer at WM New Zealand, a recycling and waste management company, designing, building and optimising scalable data pipelines, platforms and data products using tools like Snowflake, SQL, dbt, Data Factory and Databricks, while mentoring junior engineers and improving data governance.

Westpac New Zealand Limited

Senior Data Engineer

Open 0d APACSenior

Agile Airflow Analytics CI/CD Containerization +13 skills

Senior Data Engineer on Westpac NZ's CDC Squad, building and maintaining change-data-capture pipelines that stream data from DB2, VSAM and Oracle into Kafka and HDFS to support analytics and regulatory reporting. Works with Java, Python, Kafka, Hadoop/HDFS, Spark and Airflow, while mentoring engineers and ensuring reliability and compliance.

Westpac New Zealand Limited

Senior Data Engineer — Real-time Pipelines & Leadership

New APACSenior

Agile Airflow Db2 DevOps Hadoop +5 skills

Westpac New Zealand is hiring a Senior Data Engineer in Auckland to lead and mentor a squad building real-time data platforms, ensuring reliable, secure, and regulator-aligned CDC pipelines from DB2 and Oracle into Kafka and HDFS. Core stack: Java, Python, Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, and Airflow in an Agile/DevOps environment.

Data Engineer - Projects: Build Modern Cloud Data Platforms

Analytics Azure Azure Data Factory Cloud Data Engineering +3 skills

Heartland Bank is hiring a Data Engineer to build data products on a modern cloud stack (Snowflake, dbt, Azure Data Factory, DV2, AtScale), supporting regulatory reporting, finance analytics, and platform migrations across New Zealand and Australia, while shaping solution design and data engineering standards.

IAG

Data Engineer — Pipelines, Quality & AI Testing

New HybridAPAC

Agile Analytics Data Pipelines DevOps

IAG is hiring a data/analytics engineer in Auckland to monitor data pipelines, optimize models, and drive reliable data delivery across the business. The role emphasizes agile practices, DevOps, modern data tooling, release management, and clear stakeholder communication in a hybrid work model across NZ and Australia.

Digital Garage

WhereScape RED Data Engineer for Databricks Migration

New APACContract

Azure Data Pipelines SQL SQL Server

Digital Garage is hiring a contract WhereScape RED Data Engineer in New Zealand to own an enterprise data platform migration, handling WhereScape upgrades, patching, and keeping data pipelines running while moving to a new server platform. Strong SQL Server/Azure SQL skills are essential; the contract runs to 18 December 2026 with flexible remote options nationwide.

Digital Garage

Data Engineer - Wherescape

New APACContract

Azure Data Pipelines Data Warehousing Databricks Design Patterns +2 skills

Contract WhereScape data engineer owning the migration of an enterprise WhereScape RED environment to a new server platform for a New Zealand public sector infrastructure organisation, including patching, testing, production cutover and BAU pipeline continuity. Core stack: WhereScape RED, SQL Server, Azure SQL, with Databricks exposure advantageous.

New Zealand Government Joba

Senior Tech Lead, Azure Data Platform & DevOps

New APACLead

Stats NZ is hiring two Technical Leads to provide architectural leadership for its Azure-based data platform and data integration initiatives. Day to day you would design scalable data architectures, mentor engineers, champion platform governance, and drive continuous improvement across workstreams using Azure and DevOps practices.

Azure

Data Engineer (Projects)

Analytics Azure Azure Data Factory Cloud Data Engineering +8 skills

Data Engineer at Heartland Bank in Auckland delivering strategic data initiatives across New Zealand and Australia on a modern cloud stack — Snowflake, dbt, Azure Data Factory, Data Vault 2.0 and AtScale — supporting regulatory reporting, finance analytics, platform migrations and business transformation, mixing hands-on engineering, solution design and stakeholder engagement.

Data Engineer: Shape Scalable Data Pipelines

A Data Engineer on Heartland Bank's Data & Analytics team in Auckland maintains and evolves the bank's enterprise data platform, building reliable, scalable data pipelines and supporting regulatory reporting, working alongside data analysts, scientists and BI developers with modern cloud data technologies.

Data Engineer (BAU)

Analytics Automation Azure Azure Data Factory Azure Synapse +18 skills

Data Engineer at Heartland Bank maintaining and evolving the enterprise data platform: keeping production ETL/ELT pipelines, integrations and reporting reliable while optimizing data models and storage. Core tech includes SQL, cloud data platforms (Snowflake, Azure Synapse/Data Factory, Databricks) and optionally Python/Spark.