Senior Data Engineer - Data Services

IDEXX continues to invest in Veterinary Software with a goal to offer the first vertical SaaS platform for Animal Health. We’re growing both our capacity to deliver impactful software and the technical expertise to tackle future challenges relating to scale. Auckland’s home to our global software center of excellence where we develop a portfolio of cloud platforms and applications.

We’re seeking a purest Senior Data Engineer to join our brand new Data Services squad here in Auckland where your primary focus is streaming data from all platforms in the IDEXX Veterinary Software portfolio. 

You are the Data subject matter expert, supporting your Tech Lead to implement the vision for data solutions, designing architectures to capture, integrate, organize, centralize, and maintain data. The go-to expert for data management, particularly with disparate data sources. Designing frameworks and structures to organize data systems and applications, ensuring optimal access, performance, and security. You align data architecture with enterprise architecture to enable smooth and efficient operations. Communicate with business stakeholders on data-related matters and provide reference materials to support the ongoing evolution of the IDEXX data ecosystem.

We work with modern web technologies, including TypeScript, Go, and cloud-native architectures, to develop robust and maintainable solutions. With a strong focus on DevOps and automation, you'll contribute to CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and system reliability. If you're passionate about building cutting-edge applications in a fast-moving environment and enjoy working with event-driven architecture, domain-services, containerization, and distributed systems, we'd love to hear from you! 
Some key responsibilities of your role: 

• Develop and maintain the organization's overall system technical architecture. 

• Collaborate with technology and management teams to define data standards, ensuring data is stored, consumed, integrated, and managed effectively across the organization. 

• Create blueprints for data flow, build data inventories, and design complex data models to support architecture implementation. 

• Ensure data accuracy, accessibility, and system performance through continuous monitoring and refinement. 
• Lead technical planning activities, including application architecture, system design, sizing, cost & performance monitoring, and troubleshooting. 
• Ensure data interoperability across all relevant company products and services. 
• Promote the concept of data integrity and strategic value across the organization. 

What you need to succeed:  

• 7+ years' experience as a Software Engineer. 
• Expertise in real-time data processing and advanced analytics frameworks, especially Kafka. Flink an advantage. 
• Data Architecture Expertise: Strong knowledge of designing and implementing scalable data models, schemas, and data pipelines. 
• Experience with Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, or similar frameworks. 
• Proficiency in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, including services like Redshift, BigQuery, or Snowflake. 
• Expertise in relational (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra) databases. 
• Hands-on experience with tools like Informatica, Talend, or AWS Glue. 
• Familiarity with compliance standards such as GDPR, HIPAA, and best practices for data security and quality. 
• Experience with principles and practices related to cloud technologies. 
• Previous experience in SaaS environment 
• Knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud. 
• Systems and/or software design.
• Familiarity with modern web technologies (such as React), and cloud backend technologies (such as GoLang, Typescript, .NET, Ruby, Java).
• Agile processes including Scrum, Kanban, and/or others.

What you can expect from us:

• Structured onboarding, induction, ongoing training and transparent performance driven professional development
• Rewarding salary packages including lucrative incentive schemes for all
• Continuous L&D (both internal and externally)
• Great tech kit for both work and personal use
• Hybrid working with a great office space to collaborate - including a gym and roof top breakout space!
• Coffee + snacks + catered lunches at least twice a week (Food Truck Friyay!)
• Dog friendly office
• Fully subsidized Southern Cross Health insurance
• Part subsidized parking via Parkable

If you want work with real purpose with a growing company solving key challenges in the animal health industry with innovative cloud software, this is the opportunity for you! 

So, what is IDEXX Veterinary Software?  

Here in Auckland we develop a portfolio of cloud platforms and applications. We’re building a vertical SaaS platform for animal health that requires significant technical expertise to deliver. Solutions for practice management (PIMS), diagnostics, payments, client engagement, analytics & insight plus many more. We’re on a mission to build the best health technology business and we need you to help us do it! You can learn more about IDEXX Veterinary Software here: https://careers.idexx.com/us/en/veterinary-software

At IDEXX we are dedicated to enhancing the health and well-being of pets, people, and livestock around the world. Through the power of the cloud, IDEXX Veterinary Software solutions simplify the flow of information across any practice and link vets to what they need when they need it. Patient data. Client communications. Business insights. All at their fingertips.

Our journey is solving veterinary practices’ most pressing needs by focusing on innovation to drive meaningful improvements in animal health.

Why IDEXX

We’re proud of the work we do, because our work matters. An innovation leader in every industry we serve, we follow our Purpose and Guiding Principles to help pet owners worldwide keep their companion animals healthy and happy, to ensure safe drinking water for billions, and to help farmers protect livestock and poultry from disease. We have customers in over 175 countries and a global workforce of over 10,000 talented people.

So, what does that mean for you? We enrich the livelihoods of our employees with a positive and respectful work culture that embraces challenges and encourages learning and discovery. At IDEXX, you will be supported by competitive compensation, incentives, and benefits while enjoying purposeful work that drives improvement.

Let’s pursue what matters together.

IDEXX values a diverse workforce and workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply. IDEXX is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will not be discriminated against because of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, citizenship status, disability, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, medical condition, or any protected category prohibited by local, state, or federal laws.

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