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  • Foodstuffs North Island
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Auckland, New Zealand

Responsibilities

  • Set the direction for modern data engineering, including standards, guardrails, patterns, and reference architectures.
  • Lead through Principal Engineers, Tech Leads, and Chapter Leads while maintaining accountability for domain outcomes.
  • Champion data-as-a-product by enabling trusted, reusable, discoverable, governed, and valuable data assets.
  • Drive engineering maturity across DataOps, automation, CI/CD, data quality, observability, metadata, and lineage.
  • Shape strategy for cloud data platforms, lakehouse, data fabric, data mesh, semantic modelling, and governed self-service analytics.
  • Balance team autonomy with enterprise standards for security, quality, governance, and engineering.
  • Build data engineering capability through technical leadership, career pathways, communities of practice, and succession planning.
  • Support the strategic direction, health, investment, lifecycle management, scalability, and cost optimisation of enterprise data platforms.

Requirements

  • Significant leadership experience across enterprise-scale data engineering, data platforms, analytics engineering, or data architecture.
  • Deep understanding of modern data architecture and engineering, including cloud data platforms, data warehouses, data lakes/lakehouse, data fabric, data mesh, and modern integration patterns.
  • Strong experience establishing data engineering standards, patterns, and guardrails that improve quality, security, and consistency.
  • Strong experience with data-as-a-product and building trusted, governed, discoverable, and reusable enterprise data assets.
  • Experience improving data quality, DataOps, CI/CD, pipeline reliability, observability, metadata, and security-by-design.
  • Strong understanding of data governance, privacy, lineage, ownership, and data quality.
  • Experience with enterprise data and analytics technologies such as Google BigQuery or equivalent cloud data platforms, SAP Datasphere, Power BI, SAP Analytics Cloud, and data orchestration and integration technologies.
  • Ability to balance engineering excellence, business value, governance, commercial realities, and long-term platform sustainability.

Benefits

  • In-house learning and development programmes and courses.
  • Flu vaccinations and social network groups called Tribes.
  • Flexible working options.
  • A day off on your birthday and long-service leave.
  • Free car parking with more than 1,000 spaces, including EV plugs.
  • Onsite café with subsidised meals and a mini mart.
  • 5% discount at Foodies retail stores.

Foodstuffs North Island

Foodstuffs North Island is a member-owned grocery cooperative operating supermarket and wholesale banners including PAK'nSAVE, New World, Four Square, and Gilmours. It serves consumers and foodservice customers across New Zealand's North Island through franchised stores, distribution, and support...

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