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You'll work closely with stakeholders, analysts, and our digital solutions team to deliver reliable, scalable, and high-performing data solutions that enable better decision-making and business performance.\nThis role offers a balance of technical, hands-on engineering, and strategic contribution, making it ideal for someone who enjoys both building and influencing.\nWhat you'll be responsible for\nDesigning, developing, and maintaining scalable data pipelines and data products\nLeading the implementation and optimisation of modern data architectures and platforms\nEnsuring data is reliable, secure, accessible, and fit for business use\nCollaborating with stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions\nSupporting and mentoring junior Data Engineers and contributing to technical capability across the team\nDriving continuous improvement in data engineering practices, standards, and governance\nWorking closely with analytics, reporting, and AI teams to enable advanced insights and innovation\nMonitoring and optimising data performance, quality, and availability across systems\nContributing to strategic data initiatives that support business growth and transformation\n About you\nYou’re an experienced Data Engineer who enjoys building scalable, reusable data solutions that power AI-driven and agentic products. You like partnering with stakeholders, solving complex problems, and keeping data platforms healthy and reliable in production.\nYou’ll bring:\nAt least 2 years’ experience building and operating data platforms in cloud environments such as Azure, AWS or GCP\nHands-on experience designing and building semantic views or semantic layers that give agentic and AI products consistent, well-governed access to data (e.g. Snowflake Semantic Views, Cortex Analyst, dbt Semantic Layer, or equivalent)\nStrong expertise in building scalable, reusable data pipelines and modular data models that others can easily build on\nHands-on experience with technologies such as Snowflake, SQL, dbt, Data Factory, Databricks, or equivalent\nA strong understanding of data modelling, ETL/ELT processes and cloud data architecture principles\nProven operational experience monitoring platform health, troubleshooting pipeline and platform failures, carrying out root cause analysis, and putting fixes in place that prevent issues from recurring\nFamiliarity with observability and alerting tools, CI/CD practices, and infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform)\nExperience optimising data performance, cost, quality and governance\nThe ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders\nA collaborative mindset and a passion for continuous improvement\nExperience mentoring or providing technical guidance to other engineers would be highly regarded\n Why join WM New Zealand?\nOpportunity to work on meaningful projects that deliver real business impact\nOngoing learning, development, and career progression opportunities\nFlexible working arrangements that support work-life balance\nOnsite café and parking for everyday convenience\nAt WM, we invest in our people - because they are our greatest asset.\nReady to make an impact?\nIf you're excited about building modern data solutions and want to be part of a team shaping the future of data at WM New Zealand, we'd love to hear from you.\nApply today. 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