Senior Analyst Developer – Data Engineering (12 month fixed-term)

Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role

Senior Analyst Developer - Data Engineering|Kaiwhakawhanake Tātari Mātāmua (12-month Fixed Term)

Join an organisation contributing to meaningful outcomes, About Aotearoa, for Aotearoa - data that improves lives today and for generations to come.

• Technical leadership role in a fun, tightknit and collaborative team
• Provide expert development and consultancy services to business
• Where attitude is as critical as technical ability
• Work flexibly - including family-friendly hours
• Christchurch based

Mōu | For

Tatauranga Aotearoa Stats NZ are dedicated to diversity, equity, inclusion, health, and wellbeing. We welcome every gender, ethnicity, ability, religion, age, and background and encourage all our people to be their authentic selves.

Starting salary $ 95,972- $ 128,391 negotiable + KiwiSaver

We encourage you to go to our careers site to learn more about working at Tatauranga Aotearoa Stats NZ, the Way We Work and our benefits. We want working for us… to work for you!!

Other benefits of joining our Stats whānau include:

• Develop and grow your career (coaching, training, study support, secondments)
• An environment where we can all be leaders, where your ideas and input are encouraged
• Contribute to meaningful work that makes a difference to all people in Aotearoa
• 3 extra annual leave days (taken during Christmas office closure)
• City based offices that cater to a variety of working styles and

Te tūnga | The role

This role is fixed term based in Christchurch. This role is a key part of the Processing Service Line in Technology Services to begin our journey of the modern data platform (Databricks).  

Reporting to a Technology Delivery Manager you will work collaboratively with business stakeholders, notably product owners and other technical subject matter specialists, to help with the development and enhancement of our data services using advanced data processing tools and platforms, including Databricks and data warehousing solutions.

You will work closely with multi-disciplinary technology teams to help deliver the solutions that are consistent with the Stats NZ ICT architecture guidance.

Nōu te rourou | What you bring

This role would suit someone who can show:

• 3-5 years of experience as a Data Engineer with proven expertise in data engineering patterns including ingestion, processing, quality and storage.
• Recent expertise in Databricks Lakehouse Platform including Delta Lake, Notebooks, SQL/PySQL, Python/PySpark, Unity Catalog and pipeline orchestration.
• Proficient in ETL/ELT pipeline design, data modelling, and data partitioning optimisation against a Medallion architecture.
• Proficient in Python, PySpark, and SQL for building and optimizing data pipelines.
• Skilled in orchestration (Databricks Workflows), pipeline monitoring and optimizing Spark jobs/Databricks clusters.
• Experience in working with Data Warehousing solutions (Azure SQL DB, Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery, Azure Synapse).
• Skilled in BI Tools (Tableau, Power BI).
• Skilled in CI/CD (Azure DevOps, GitLab, Github).
• Experienced in Agile, cross-team collaboration, documentation.

Ko mātou | About Us

Tatauranga Aotearoa - Stats NZ is a Central Government employer of 1600+ people across Aotearoa. We provide data and statistics to support the decisions of Government, Māori and Iwi organisations, businesses, NGOs, and New Zealanders. Our work is About Aotearoa, for Aotearoa - data that improves lives today and for generations to come.

Me pēhea te tuku tono | How to apply

If this sounds like you, click on the Apply now button to be redirect to the application page on our careers site. The position description is located on the right-hand side of the page.

We are truly committed to diversity, equity, inclusion and lifting our cultural capability. You don't need to be knowledgeable in all these areas already, but you do need to be on board with learning and have a genuine interest and willingness to grow on this journey with us.

We will be screening applications as we receive them to move swiftly to interview shortly after the advert closes. You may be asked to complete a pre-interview screen via phone or video. Please let us know in your application if we need to make any specific accommodations during our process.

Please reach out to recruitment@stats.govt.nz if you have any questions.

You must have the right to live and work in Aotearoa New Zealand. Background and various pre-employment checks are part of our recruitment process.

Note to Recruitment Agencies: unsolicited CVs will not be accepted.