Senior Manager - Data Engineering

We're seeking an experienced people leader to lead a growing Data Engineering function within one of NZ's largest and most complex data environments.

This is a rare opportunity to shape the future of enterprise data capability as the organisation continues its journey towards a modern data platform while bringing together data and analytics capability from across a diverse and evolving business.

You'll lead a multidisciplinary team and play a key role in developing engineering capability, establishing best practice, driving platform modernisation, and ensuring data teams are set up for long-term success.

About the role
This is a leadership role where success will come from your ability to balance people leadership, technical credibility, stakeholder engagement, and transformation delivery.

You will:

• Lead and develop a team of Data Engineers and data professionals, building capability, engagement and technical excellence
• Drive the transition from legacy platforms to a modern cloud-based data ecosystem
• Establish scalable, sustainable and repeatable data engineering standards, frameworks and practices
• Partner with senior stakeholders to align data engineering priorities with business outcomes
• Support the development of enterprise-wide data capability and maturity
• Contribute to data strategy, platform roadmap development and future-state architecture decisions
• Foster a collaborative culture where engineers, analysts and technical specialists can learn from each other and deliver greater impact

You will bring:

• Significant experience leading technical teams within data, analytics or engineering environments
• A strong track record of coaching, mentoring and developing technical professionals
• Experience leading change, transformation, platform modernisation or migration initiatives
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence across technical and non-technical audiences
• Solid understanding of modern data engineering practices, platforms and data architecture principles
• The ability to balance strategic thinking with practical delivery outcomes
• A genuine passion for building high-performing teams and improving organisational capability
• Experience with technologies such as Snowflake, Databricks, dbt, Fivetran, Power BI or similar modern data platforms

**Why apply?**This role offers the opportunity to work with some of the most diverse datasets in NZ, across multiple business functions and services that impact communities every day.

You'll join a team on a significant transformation journey and have the opportunity to:

• Lead a growing and evolving team
• Influence enterprise-wide data strategy
• Drive meaningful organisational change
• Shape modern data engineering practices
• Work on complex and varied data challenges at scale
• Develop the next generation of data and analytics talent

For a confidential discussion, please apply now or get in touch with Caitlin on 0212241361 or Kelly on 0211119404.

If you’re starting to think about a career change but aren’t quite sure whether now is the right time, I’d still love to hear from you. Happy to have a confidential conversation about this opportunity, what you might be looking for next, and other similar senior engineering roles in the market. If you’re even a little curious, feel free to apply and we can connect.

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