Senior Data Engineer | 6-month contract | Auckland (Hybrid)
This is a hands-on contract role working across a modern data stack, supporting ongoing platform and transformation initiatives. You'll be joining a collaborative engineering team with strong internal support, mature standards, and access to experienced SMEs across platform, data, and business domains.
About the role
In this role you'll be:
- Building and optimising Snowflake data models
- Developing, testing, and maintaining dbt transformation pipelines
- Designing and orchestrating workflows using Airflow and/or Python
- Delivering scalable and reliable data solutions across multiple squads
- Contributing to engineering best practices, testing, and documentation
- Supporting ongoing data platform and migration initiatives
The ideal contractor will bring strong Snowflake capability, experience building scalable transformation pipelines in dbt, and orchestration experience using Airflow and/or Python. Strong communication skills and the ability to work closely with both technical and non-technical stakeholders are equally important. You'll bring:
- Strong commercial experience with Snowflake (SnowPro Core certification highly regarded)
- Proven experience with dbt (Cloud or Core)
- Airflow and/or strong Python engineering capability
- Experience working within modern data stack environments
- Strong understanding of data modelling and performance optimisation
**Please note that only applicants currently based in New Zealand with the appropriate work rights (valid visa) will be considered**

