{"id":3956271,"url":"https://alion.io/job/blinkpay-data-lifecycle-engineer","title":"Data Lifecycle Engineer","company":{"id":181731,"name":"BlinkPay","domain":"blinkpay.co.nz","url":"https://alion.io/company/blinkpay","size_band":"501-1000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":null},"role":"Data Science","role_family":"Data Science","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Auckland, New Zealand"],"countries":["NZ"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"SQL","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-09T08:30:52Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-09","last_verified_at":"2026-11-09T08:30:52Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Worker Type:\nMaximum Term/Fixed Term (Fixed Term)Here at BNZ, it's about more than just banking. We work together in an agile, energising environment to create innovative solutions though our promise \"If you can imagine a better future, let's find a way.\"\nWe support wellbeing, flexible working and have a generous leave offering. No two days are the same.\nKo mātou tēnei | This is Us\nAt BNZ, we’re committed to building trusted, high-quality data that supports our customers, regulators, and stakeholders to make confident decisions. Our team plays a critical role in enabling this - working closely with program delivery teams to manage data risk, ensure continuity, and unlock value across the data lifecycle.\nWe’re looking for a Data Lifecycle Engineer to join our team and help provide early visibility of data impacts across change, delivery, and platform evolution.\nMō te Tūranga | About the Role\nAs a Data Lifecycle Engineer, you’ll work across the end-to-end data lifecycle, understanding how changes in our source systems flow through data platforms and ultimately impact data assets, reporting and regulatory outcomes.\nYou’ll proactively investigate changes to applications, data models, attributes and interfaces, identify their downstream impacts, and translate them into clear technical requirements for source-system teams, data engineers and data consumers. A key part of the role is finding smarter, more automated ways to spot change and understand lineage and dependencies, so we manage data impacts early rather than discovering them late in delivery.\nThis is a full-time 2-year fixed term opportunity based in Auckland. This is a hybrid role with three days in the office and two days where you can work flexibly.\nWe sat down with our Head of Data - Core Banking (Who you’ll report to), and they let us know the following about the role.\nWhat are the day to day tasks the person in this role will complete?\nInvestigating source-system changes across releases and initiatives, and tracing their impact end to end, from source systems through ingestion, transformation and data assets to downstream reports, regulatory submissions, Critical Data Elements and business consumers.\nTranslating analysis into clear, actionable technical requirements for source-system developers, data engineers and downstream owners, including source-to-target mappings, definitions, transformation expectations, reconciliation requirements and acceptance criteria.\nWorking with regulatory, obligation and reporting owners to explain what is changing, why it matters, what data is affected and whether downstream processes or reports need to change.\nDeveloping and improving automated approaches to change detection and impact analysis, using metadata, lineage, schema comparison, code or other tooling to identify changes and dependencies earlier.\nInvestigating data quality, reconciliation and integration issues, using root-cause analysis to determine where in the lifecycle an issue originated and how it should be prevented from recurring.\nSupporting migration and decommissioning by identifying data dependencies, historical data requirements and downstream consumers before systems, interfaces or data flows are changed or retired.\nWhat projects / work will the candidate be working on now and into the next year?\nThe successful candidate will be working on both short and long term data projects in the core banking area (e.g. Lending and Deposits). You will work directly with various other parts of the business to identify end to end data impacts and enable data solutions.\nWhat is the most exciting thing about this opportunity?\nThis role gives you the opportunity to understand some of BNZ's most important data end to end, from the applications where data originates through to the data assets, reporting and regulatory outcomes that depend on it.\nYou'll help us get ahead of change rather than discover its impact after the fact, building better visibility of lineage, dependencies and downstream impacts and finding ways to automate this over time.\nYou'll have the freedom to ask questions, follow the data, solve complex problems and help shape how trusted data is built and protected across Core Banking.\nWhat attributes will this person display to be successful in this role?\nWe’re looking for someone with a curious and investigative mindset who enjoys understanding how systems, processes and data connect end to end. You’ll be comfortable getting into technical detail while also being able to explain the implications clearly to non-technical stakeholders.\nThis is a hands-on role: you'll be expected to interrogate data, validate lineage and dependencies, test assumptions and use evidence to confirm impacts rather than relying solely on documentation.\nIdeally, you'll bring:\nStrong experience analysing source systems, data models, interfaces, schemas and data flows, with a working knowledge of data lineage, metadata, source-to-target mapping, data quality and Critical Data Elements, and how changes propagate downstream.\nStrong SQL and data analysis skills, with the ability to investigate datasets, validate assumptions, reconcile data and identify root causes.\nExperience translating source-system or business change into clear technical requirements for data engineers, including mappings, business rules, transformations, validation and acceptance criteria. Strong communication skills to explain the same change to developers, business stakeholders and regulatory/reporting owners.\nExperience assessing impacts to downstream consumers, particularly reporting, regulatory or other critical data processes.\nExperience using or developing automation for metadata discovery, lineage, dependency analysis, schema comparison or change detection.\nPlease Note: Applications for this vacancy close on 23 November. We review applications as they are received and may close advertising early.\nNau Mai ki te Pēke o Aotearoa | Come to the Bank of New Zealand\nThis is an exciting opportunity to join us! We're bold thinkers who are taking brave steps to create a company that people want to work for, and customers want to bank with. 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