Data Engineer

About Watercare

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!

About the role

As a Data Engineer at Watercare, you will design, build, and maintain data solutions that enable high-quality insights across the organisation. You’ll work collaboratively within the Data & Analytics team to support Watercare’s data platforms, ensuring they operate efficiently, securely, and at scale.

In this hands-on technical role, you will:

• Build, integrate and maintain data pipelines, warehouses, and ingestion processes.

• Evaluate and cleanse datasets to support accurate reporting and analytics.

• Support the delivery of data models, frameworks, and governance practices.

• Enhance data collection procedures and monitor performance of data infrastructure.

• Work closely with business owners to understand data needs, ensuring high-quality and secure data delivery.

About you

You’re a collaborative problem solver with a passion for data engineering, modern cloud technologies, and optimised data ecosystems.

You’ll thrive if you:

• Enjoy solving data challenges in agile, cross-functional teams.

• Demonstrate strong communication skills and can convey technical concepts to varied audiences.

• Are motivated by continuous improvement and enjoy working at pace.

• Have a “can do” mindset and take pride in high-quality delivery.

To be considered for this role you will:

• Tertiary qualification in a relevant discipline.

• 5+ years’ experience with ETL tools (e.g., Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue).

• Advanced SQL skills and experience with dbt, Snowflake, Snowpark or similar.

• Strong scripting skills in SQL and Python.

• 3+ years working on cloud data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks).

Desirable

• Experience with CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).

• Experience working with data lakes and modern data architectures.

• Agile delivery experience.

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

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.