Senior Data Engineer

Kōrero mō te tūranga - About the role

We are on a journey to lift our organisational data capability to enable our people to do what they do best – deliver amazing customer experiences, create growth, and increase the value of our business. You’ll be part of a data team working with business stakeholders to deliver these outcomes.   

You’ll work in a data product squad to design, build and deliver beautiful data products and insights to our business, collaborating with our technical leads, the broader data team and business stakeholders. 

Here’s some other aspects to the opportunity. 

• Be a leader in the team ensuring our platform standards and practices are followed, 
• Recommend ways to improve data developer experience and support practice changes 
• Coach/mentor less experienced team members in your squad and across the data practice 
• Identify and share opportunities to use data for improved decision making and operational processes with product owners and other stakeholders 

Ko wai koe - About you

We’re really big on collaboration so this type of environment will suit you well. You're a problem solver at heart who embraces challenging problems in the data world.  Additionally, you’ll be unfazed by a fast-changing complex environment and have a passion for continuous improvement and delivering the right solution for our business.  

Here’s some technical skills we’ll be searching for in your application; (i.e., when have you…) 

• Designed and deployed data pipelines and solutions in complex environments 
• Technical analysis and problem-solving skills to find and resolve data issues
• Data transformation (ELT/ETL) using a range of structured and unstructured sources to create data that works for a variety of use cases 
• Extensive knowledge of the SDLC and contemporary tools, practices, and expectations as applicable to data and ML engineering contexts
• Open-source data and cloud platforms/services, preferably AWS, Spark 
• Programming, preferably SQL and Python
• Additional skills and experience are beneficial, especially experience implementing and optimising ML/AI pipelines and a practical understanding of ML frameworks and libraries. 

There are a bunch of perks to being a permanent Contact kaimahi (employee). Along with great leadership, teammates, development, and growth and progression opportunities, you’ll enjoy flexible working, free health insurance cover, better-than-your-average leave, access to Contact Shares, a ‘Good to be Home’ annual payment toward your home set up & wellbeing, a trail-blazing parental leave policy, discounts on Contact Energy products, and more!

We’re keen to welcome a new Senior Data Engineer soon so if this sounds like a bit of you, apply now!

Research shows that while men apply to jobs where they meet 60% of the criteria, women and those in underrepresented groups tend to only apply if they tick every box. We're not about box ticking, so if you think you have what it takes but don't meet everything stated above, please still get in touch. We'd love to kōrero.