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We’re focused on providing superior genetics, reliable testing and diagnostics, integrated on-farm software, and great customer service, all designed to help farmers make smarter decisions every day.\nAs a proud generational co-operative, we’re here for farmers, their families, and rural communities, not just for today, but for the future. And none of it happens without our people. Whether on farm, in the lab, or behind the scenes, every one of us plays a part in helping New Zealand farmers succeed.\nYour Role:\nAs our Senior Data Quality Engineer, you'll shape how data quality is designed, delivered, and embedded across LIC's data platform.\nWorking across platform and domain teams, you'll establish scalable frameworks, standards, and best practices that enable Data Quality as a Service. You'll help drive the shift from manual, batch-based testing to automated, event-driven quality controls, ensuring our data products are trusted, reliable, and fit for purpose.\nThis is a highly influential role that combines technical leadership with hands-on delivery. You'll champion Data as a Product mindset, develop reusable quality patterns, and help ensure our platform continues to scale as the business grows.\nYour Key Focus:\nData Quality Strategy\nYou'll define and evolve LIC's approach to data quality, creating reusable frameworks, standards, and quality measures that enable teams to deliver trusted data products at scale.\nData Governance & Security\nYou'll work alongside governance, architecture, and security stakeholders to ensure data quality practices align with privacy, security, compliance, and data protection requirements.\nEngineering, Reliability & Observability\nYou'll lead the development of testing, monitoring, and observability capabilities that provide visibility into data health, improve platform reliability, and support proactive issue resolution.\nLeadership & Influence\nYou'll champion data quality across the organisation, providing technical leadership, coaching, and guidance that helps teams adopt consistent practices and build quality into their solutions from day one.\nOperational Excellence\nYou'll promote automation, continuous improvement, and modern engineering practices that strengthen reliability, improve efficiency, and enable teams to deliver with confidence.\nResponsible Use of AI\nYou'll contribute to the safe and practical adoption of AI-enabled tooling, helping teams leverage emerging capabilities while maintaining appropriate controls around quality, privacy, and security.\nWhat You'll Bring...\nEssential\nRelevant tertiary qualifications in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent industry experience.\n\nProven experience designing and implementing automated data quality and testing solutions at scale.\n\nStrong understanding of data modelling, schemas, and modern data platform design principles.\n\nHands-on experience with event-driven architectures and streaming technologies such as Kafka, Flink, or similar.\n\nExpertise with automated testing frameworks and data quality tools such as Great Expectations, Soda, dbt Tests, or pytest.\n\nExperience developing data observability, monitoring, and reliability solutions.\n\nWorking knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and Agile delivery practices.\n\nExcellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence quality practices across multiple teams.\n\nA collaborative leadership style with a passion for mentoring and capability development.\n\nDesirable\nExperience with AI-assisted testing and quality engineering tools.\n\nKnowledge of data governance, data classification, masking, tokenisation, and synthetic data techniques.\n\nExperience defining and monitoring critical data elements and data quality metrics.\n\nExperience implementing data quality controls across modern data platforms, including both streaming and analytical workloads.\n\nIn Return:\nBased 10 minutes from Hamilton, in a semi-rural location, the role provides the opportunity for a lifestyle change for those seeking a better work -life balance and wanting to escape the 'rat race' and cost of living in bigger cities. Alternatively, we are open to flexible and remote working arrangements.\nIn addition to a competitive salary, you'll receive some great benefits including:\nExtra leave days\n\nFlexible working options\n\nDiscounted health, life, income and disability insurances\n\nAccess to our employee shares scheme\n\nWellbeing discounts\n\nFree onsite parking and Free EV Chargers\n\nThis is a highly visible and pivotal role, where you'll have plenty of opportunity to achieve great results. 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