# Senior Data Engineer

Mō te tūranga | About the Role We're looking for a highly skilled Senior Data Engineer to combine deep hands-on engineering expertise with technical leadership and AI-driven innovation. This is a senior engineering role where approximately 60% of your time will be hands-on solution and framework engineering, 20% focused on AI, GitHub Copilot and developer enablement, and 20% dedicated to technical leadership, standards, mentoring and coaching. You'll play a critical role in designing and delivering scalable data services, modern engineering frameworks, and AI-enabled solutions while helping uplift engineering capability across the wider team. Nā tāu rourou | What will you bring? 5+ years' experience in Data, Software or Platform Engineering, with at least 3 years working on cloud-based data platforms. Strong hands-on expertise in Python, SQL and modern data platforms such as Snowflake. Experience designing, building and supporting end-to-end production solutions. Proven capability implementing automated testing, CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps practices. Demonstrated technical leadership, including mentoring, coaching and promoting engineering best practices. Hands-on experience deve

- **Id**: 3599278
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/westpac-nz-senior-data-engineer-3>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: New Zealand
- **Countries**: NZ
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-02T07:12:24Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-02
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T18:43:46Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 6
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4111
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Commercial & Retail Banks

## Company

- **Id**: 450143
- **Name**: Westpac NZ
- **Domain**: westpac.co.nz
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/westpac-nz>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

## Technologies

- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Copilot** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Snowflake** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: yes
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: yes
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **dbt** — Optional: yes
- **LLM** — Optional: yes
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: yes
- **RAG** — Optional: yes
- **Spark** — Optional: yes
- **Terraform** — Optional: yes
- **TypeScript** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 6

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-02T07:12:24Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 85
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 0.945
- **Age days**: 5
- **Expected fill days**: 14
- **Reasons**: conf:10, velocity, win:mid
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

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