Senior Consultant
Datacom Location: Wellington onsite
Security Requirements: NZ Citizens only, New Zealand Security Clearances are desirable.
Full Time, Permanent Position.
Our Purpose
Here at Datacom we connect people and technology in order to solve challenges, create opportunities and discover new possibilities for the communities we live in.
Our Team
The Data and Analytics team are a progressive group of diverse and creative individuals with a deep love for all things data related. They build platforms and solutions that are leading edge and at the forefront of the technology curve. A close knit and fun team embedded within our rapidly growing Professional Services division, and part of the wider Datacom ecosystem.
About the Role
As a Senior Consultant, you will lead the technical delivery of large-scale data platform and BI solutions. You will be asked to design, implement and own the delivery of robust Data Platform and Insight solutions. Our Senior Consultants work closely with our client stakeholders/teams and our internal Principal Consultants, Practice Leads, and Project Managers. This is a client facing role, so you'll need to be an excellent communicator with great engagement and presentation skills across a range of stakeholder levels.
What You’ll Do
- Working with clients (businesses users) to identify consulting opportunities, and eliciting stakeholders requirements through workshops facilitation.
- Contribute to the technical architecture, design and delivery for new modern data and insight platforms using innovative ideas and your proven experience in the latest trends for data-powered decision enablement.
- Provide thought leadership to our clients regarding data management and integration recommendations.
- Design data models (relational and dimensional modelling) across different data domains and industries.
- Design and deployment AI solutions for data migration, data modelling, application modernization and data warehouse migrations to name but a few.
- Ability to perform performance tuning and optimisation on new or existing data platforms and insight solutions.
- Manage development life cycles using various source code management tools including our AI modernisation techniques and products.
- Ability to design and develop customised self-service solutions using Power BI, with an in-depth knowledge of the different deployment options.
- Provide detailed technical documentation, end user training and knowledge-transfer services to customers, and internal teams.
Skills and requirements
- Excellent consultation and stakeholder management skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Proven track-record of designing and building modern data platforms including Enterprise Data Warehouse migration experience.
- Advanced and practical skills in Snowflake (dataflows, pipelines, Cortex/Coco) or Databricks (workflow, lakehouse flows, Autoloader), with deep experience in tools such as dbt, Azure/Fabric Data Factory, Coalesce and Fivetran or Matillion.
- Advanced and practical skills using Python
- Strong skills in cloud platforms including Azure and AWS.
- Strong skills in data platform design, implementation, configuration, performance and cost management (i.e. Fabric, Snowflake)
- Strong skills in Power BI, Power Query, SQL and DAX semantic data modelling.
- Advanced and practical skills using DevOps and knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, Git integration, and deployment automation.
Required Skills and Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline
- Snowpro and Coalesce certified or Microsoft Azure/Fabric certified data engineer
- Minimum 7+ years’ experience in EDW design and implementation.
- Minimum 7+ years’ experience in ETL architecting and design.
- Minimum 7+ years’ experience in data modelling (Star schema & Snowflake schema)
- Minimum 5+ years’ experience in semantic layer development.
- Minimum 5+ years’ experience in Power BI
Why Join Us Here at Datacom?
Datacom is one of Australia and New Zealand’s largest suppliers of Information Technology professional services. We have managed to maintain a dynamic, agile, small business feel that is often diluted in larger organisations of our size. It's our people that give Datacom its unique culture and energy that you can feel from the moment you meet with us.
We care about our people and provide a range of perks such as social events, chill-out spaces, remote working, flexi-hours and professional development courses to name a few. You’ll have the opportunity to learn, develop your career, connect and bring your true self to work. You will be recognised and valued for your contributions and be able to do your work in a collegial, flat-structured environment.
We operate at the forefront of technology to help Australia and New Zealand’s largest enterprise organisations explore possibilities and solve their greatest challenges, so you will never run out of interesting new challenges and opportunities.
We want Datacom to be an inclusive and welcoming workplace for everyone and take pride in the steps we have taken and continue to take to make our environment fun and friendly, and our people feel supported.
Skills Required
- New Zealand citizen or resident (NZ Citizens and Residents Only)
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline
- SnowPro and Coalesce certified or Microsoft Azure/Fabric certified Data Engineer
- Minimum 7+ years experience in Enterprise Data Warehouse design and implementation
- Minimum 7+ years experience in ETL architecting and design
- Minimum 7+ years experience in data modelling (Star schema & Snowflake schema)
- Minimum 5+ years experience in semantic layer development
- Minimum 5+ years experience in Power BI
- Advanced and practical skills in Snowflake (dataflows, pipelines, Cortex/Coco) or Databricks (workflow, lakehouse flows, Autoloader)
- Experience with dbt, Azure/Fabric Data Factory, Coalesce, Fivetran or Matillion
- Advanced and practical skills using Python
- Strong skills in cloud platforms including Azure and AWS
- Strong skills in Power Query, SQL and DAX semantic data modelling
- Advanced and practical skills using DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, Git integration and deployment automation
- Excellent consultation, stakeholder management, verbal and written communication skills
- Security clearances (desirable)
Datacom Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Datacom and has not been reviewed or approved by Datacom.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare support includes complimentary health insurance packages in Australia and New Zealand alongside employee assistance programs. Wellbeing resources and on‑site meditation rooms are highlighted as part of the offering.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Flexible and remote work support, plus discounts on gyms, travel, and selected retailers, are prominently featured. The package emphasizes work–life balance and lifestyle support alongside core benefits.
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Flexible Benefits — Flexible working is promoted across locations, with hybrid/remote arrangements positioned as standard practice where feasible. Benefits are framed as locally tailored by country and business unit, reflecting adaptability to context.
Datacom Insights
What We Do
Datacom is Australasia's largest home-grown tech company. Drawing on the experience of over 6500 staff in 24 locations around the globe, we work with a full range of clients, from small start-ups through to government agencies and multinational corporations, to explore and extract the hidden value in their systems. We bring together over half a century of know-how, the right technology and the knowledge and creativity of our people, to deliver sustainable solutions to our customers’ greatest challenges. With our team of dedicated professionals, we work with leading partners to deliver the solutions that are right for our customers – that solve their issues and enhances their businesses. We design, build and run IT systems and processes across operations, cybersecurity, cloud, digital platforms, payroll and enterprise applications. We deliver customer care services and operate mission-critical infrastructure with best-in-class data centre facilities – Datacom delivers on the promise: practical imagination.
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