Senior Data Consultant

Why You’d Like It

This role offers the chance to step into high-impact data platform delivery with true workstream ownership, diving deep into both Databricks and Microsoft Fabric without being locked into a single rigid stack. It balances technical delivery with client collaboration, offering flexibility, continuous skill growth, and zero corporate red tape.

The Story

As demand for modern data architecture and practical AI integration continues to grow across New Zealand, a prominent technology practice is expanding its national Data & Analytics team. To support a healthy pipeline of strategic client engagements, they are bringing on a Senior Consultant to lead end-to-end platform builds, manage key client workstreams, and help guide the practice’s ongoing growth.

Company Profile

The organisation is an established trans-Tasman technology consultancy with a strong footprint across Australia and New Zealand. Built around a collaborative culture that values genuine business outcomes over sheer output, they offer engineers a supportive environment to solve complex technical problems alongside experienced architects and peers.

Your Role

• Designing and delivering modern data platforms using Databricks and Microsoft Fabric, spanning ingestion, transformation, and medallion architecture.
• Owning workstreams end-to-end—managing scope, quality, and delivery timelines from initial design and build through to UAT, deployment, and handover.
• Engaging directly with clients to gather requirements, run technical working sessions, produce accurate estimates, and manage project stakeholders.
• Collaborating across practice areas on data migration streams, including Microsoft Dynamics 365 projects.
• Applying practical AI tools to streamline day-to-day engineering workflows and helping clients adopt AI on solid data foundations.
• Mentoring junior engineers, sharing technical knowledge, and contributing to reusable engineering patterns and standards.

Benefits

• Competitive salary package with clear, structured development pathways within the practice.
• Flexible, hybrid work arrangements available in Auckland, Wellington, or Christchurch.
• Additional leave perks, including birthday leave and dedicated volunteer days.
• Active social club and a genuinely inclusive, supportive team culture focused on work-life balance.

Your Fit

• 5+ years of hands-on data engineering experience, with deep technical capability in Databricks (Delta, workflows, Autoloader) or Microsoft Fabric (lakehouse, DirectLake, pipelines).
• Strong expertise in SQL, Python, PySpark, modern ETL/ELT pipeline design, and medallion data modelling.
• Proven experience applying DevOps practices, including Git, CI/CD, and environment promotion.
• Excellent consulting skills—able to gather requirements, run workshops, estimate work independently, and communicate clearly with client stakeholders.
• Practical familiarity with AI engineering tools, along with exposure to Power BI, semantic modelling, dbt, or Dynamics 365 data migrations.
• Relevant certifications, such as Databricks Certified Data Engineer, Microsoft Fabric (DP-600/DP-700), or Azure Data Engineer (DP-203), are highly valued.

Applicants must be legally entitled to work in New Zealand. If you are not a NZ Citizen, you must have the right of permanent residence or a valid work visa.

Does this sound like it could be the next role for you? Get in touch with Dan for a confidential discussion email [email protected] or call on 021331559