He kōrero mō mātou | About Watercare
Ki te ora te wai, ka ora te whenua, ka ora te tangata
When the water is healthy, the land and the people are healthy
Now is an exciting time to join Watercare, we're planning to spend $14 billion over the next 10 years to ensure we can continue to support our growing city in a climate-resilient way. When you average that out, that's an investment of $3.8 million every day!
He whakamārama mō te tūranga mahi | About the role
As a Senior Data Engineer, you will lead the design and delivery of enterprise grade data solutions that power Watercare’s decision making. This senior technical role provides thought leadership, sets engineering standards, and ensures Watercare’s data platforms are robust, scalable, and future focused.
In this role you will:
Lead the design, build, and optimisation of data pipelines and architectures.
Mentor others and champion bestp ractice engineering, governance, and quality.
Partner closely with Data Engineering Leaders and Architecture teams to shape Watercare’s data landscape.
Evaluate systems for inefficiencies, inaccuracies and opportunities for automation and improvement.
Ngā pūkenga e rapu nei mātou | About you
You’re an experienced engineer who leads by example, technically strong, collaborative, and driven to create high quality, future ready data solutions.
You’ll excel if you:
Communicate clearly and influence across technical and nontechnical teams.
Mentor and uplift others, contributing to a high performance culture.
Are solution focused, curious, and proactive in identifying improvements.
Bring deep expertise in data engineering within complex environments
To be considered for this role you will:
Tertiary qualification in a relevant discipline.
10+ years’ experience with ETL tools (e.g., Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue).
Advanced SQL expertise plus strong Python skills.
Extensive experience with cloud data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks).
Deep knowledge of data architecture (lakes, warehouses, Lakehouse).
Desirable
CI/CD and IaC experience (Terraform).
Experience working in agile environments.
Strong technical design capability.
Ngā hua mōu | What's in it for you
We offer a competitive salary and staff benefits package including:
• Training and development opportunities
• Life and income protection insurance plans
• Generous parental leave
• Employee discounts at a range of large retailers
Me pēhea te tono mai | How to Apply
Come and join our team! If you are looking for an exciting career opportunity with a fantastic team then please apply online today - careers.watercare.co.nz.
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What We Do
At Watercare we’re proud to provide a lifeline service to the people of Auckland, while protecting the environment for future generations.
Every day we provide the highest quality drinking water to 1.7 million Aucklanders, and take it away again once it’s been used in the sink or flushed down the loo. Without using chemicals, we treat wastewater to a very high standard and safely return it to the environment.
We also plan for new and upgraded infrastructure far into the future to ensure we can meet the needs of our fast-growing city.
We operate assets worth more than $9 billion – but it’s our people who are our most valuable assets.
Our staff are passionate, motivated and trustworthy people who are the leaders in their fields. They’re not afraid of a challenge and are constantly looking for new ways of improving our processes and the service we offer our customers.
If this sounds like you, please visit our careers centre to see our job vacancies and be notified of future opportunities: https://careers.watercare.co.nz
