Senior Data Engineer

Kia ora, Talofa lava, Mālō e lelei, Namaste, Ni hao, Bonjour 

At ASB, we’re all about doing what we can to help our customers get one step ahead. Our purpose guides everything we do, and our Data & Analytics teams play a critical role in delivering better outcomes for our customers and our business. 

Our Auckland based Data & Analytics Practice is growing. We’re looking for talented Senior Data Engineers to join our team in Auckland. 

Te tūranga | The role 

As a Senior Data Engineer, you’ll be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining high-quality data solutions that enable trusted insights and decision-making across ASB. 

Working within a collaborative, agile environment, you’ll contribute to the development of scalable data pipelines and platforms, while partnering with business stakeholders to understand and deliver against business needs. 

Ngā mea ka mahia e koe | What you’ll do 

In this role, you will: 

• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of data pipelines and data engineering processes 

• Build reliable, scalable, and high-quality data solutions using modern data engineering practices 

• Identify opportunities to automate, simplify, and standardise processes 

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver aligned data solutions 

• Apply software engineering and site reliability principles to improve data quality and performance 

• Contribute to data engineering standards, documentation, and best practices 

• Support team members, contributing to capability uplift across the team 

• Champion continuous improvement across data platforms, processes, and ways of working 

• Ensure adherence to ASB’s risk, governance, and control frameworks 

Ō pūkenga | About you 

We’re looking for someone with strong technical capability and experience, a collaborative mindset, and understanding of modern data environments: 

• Relevant experience working with data engineering, data warehousing, or large-scale data platforms 

• Strong SQL and Python skills, including code optimisation and productionisation 

• Experience with data integration, CI/CD, and modern data architectures 

• Exposure to cloud-native platforms, streaming technologies, or containerisation 

• Understanding of data structures, data modelling, and engineering principles 

• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders 

• A proactive approach, with a focus on quality, improvement, and delivery 

• Proven judgement across security, risk, governance, quality and commercial considerations in production environments. 

• Some working knowledge or experience across a selection of data integration, transformation, and cloud data technologies such as Kafka, IBM Streamsets, Wharescape Red, dbt, Snowflake or Databricks. 

You don’t need experience in every area listed. Above all, you’ll be curious, collaborative and customer focused. If you believe you have some of the experience mentioned above, we encourage you to apply. 

Ō mātou uara | Our values: 

At ASB, we live our values every day: 

Caring | Courage | Curiosity 

These guide how we work together, support our customers, and deliver great outcomes. 

He aha tā mātou | What we offer? 

• The opportunity to work at the forefront of ASB’s data transformation 

• A collaborative, supportive environment that values continuous learning 

• The chance to influence how data is managed and used across the organisation 

• Flexible working and strong focus on wellbeing.

Me pēhea te tono | How to apply 

If you’re passionate about building modern data solutions and want to make a meaningful impact at ASB, we’d love to hear from you.