Data Engineer

Wellington, New Zealand

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Contact Energy

Join one of NZ's leading providers of electricity, natural gas, broadband, solar & renewable energy. We put our energy where it matters.

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Company Description

Ko wai mātou | About us    

Ko tō mātou kaupapa nui ko te tuku atu i tō mātou pūngao ki te wāhi e tika ana, kia whakahaukino kore ai i te rāngai pūngao o Aotearoa me te whakatairanga atu i te #changematters. E kaingākau ana mātou mō tō mātou whāinga matua, ā, e whakahīhī ana anō mātou i te iwi tangata kei muri i a mātou e whaiwhai ana i te whāinga kotahi. Nā runga i tēnei whāinga teitei, tērā pea ka ui ake koe ki a koe anōka pēhea tēnei āheinga e tautoko ana i tētehi Aotearoa pai ake, Aotearoa mā ake? 

Our purpose is to put our energy where it matters, to decarbonise the New Zealand energy sector and promote #changematters. We are passionate about our mission and proud to have a tribe of people behind us working towards a common purpose. With such an ambitious goal, you might ask yourself – how does this opportunity help support a better, cleaner NZ? 

Contact is transforming its business with a data-first focus on operational excellence, enabling our team to do their best. Delivering this transformation will require Contact to strengthen its technology, data, and delivery capabilities, adopt new ways of working and shape its culture for greater agility, innovation, and customer obsession 

Job Description

Te Whiwhinga mahi | The opportunity  

We are on a journey to lift our organisational data capability to enable our people to do what they do best – deliver amazing customer experiences, create growth, and increase the value of our business. You’ll be part of a data team working with business stakeholders to deliver these outcomes.   

Our data platform is an integral component of our technology and business strategy, and we continue to evolve and scale our platform. It is an exciting time right now as we are growing exponentially, and you’ll get to be a part of designing and delivering this next phase of our data evolution.   

As a Data Engineer you’ll work in a data product squad, your key task being to design, build and deliver beautiful data products and insights to our business. Technical leads and the broader data team will be there to support you along the way.  

Qualifications

We’re really big on collaboration so this type of environment will suit you well. You're a problem solver at heart who embraces challenging problems in the data world.  Additionally, you’ll be unfazed by a fast-changing complex environment and have a passion for continuous improvement and delivering the right solution for our business.  Here’s some technical skills we’ll be searching for in your application; (i.e., when have you…) 

  • Designed and deployed data pipelines and solutions in complex environments, including emerging data technologies 
  • Applied critical thinking skills to identify and resolve data and platform issues 
  • Data transformation (ELT/ETL) using a range of structured and unstructured sources to create data that works for a variety of use cases 
  • Used source code control (Git) and extensive knowledge of the SDLC and contemporary tools, practices, and expectations 
  • Open-source data and cloud platforms/services, preferably AWS, Spark 
  • Programming, preferably Python 
  • Additional skills and experience are highly beneficial, including e.g., DataOps, windows/Linux administration and security. 

Additional Information

There are a bunch of perks to being a permanent Contact kaimahi (employee). Along with great leadership, teammates, development, and growth and progression opportunities, you’ll enjoy flexible working, free health insurance cover, better-than-your-average leave, access to Contact Shares, a ‘Good to be Home’ annual payment toward your home set up & wellbeing, discounts on Contact Energy productsand more.

We’re keen to welcome a new Data Engineer soon so if this sounds like a bit of you, apply now, or if there’s something you’re curious to know before making it official, contact George on george.bevan@contactenergy.co.nz.

Please note, only candidates with the right to live and work in New Zealand will be considered for this role.

Research shows that while men apply to jobs where they meet 60% of the criteria, women and those in underrepresented groups tend to only apply if they tick every box. We're not about box ticking, so if you think you have what it takes but don't meet everything stated above, please still get in touch. We'd love to kōrero.

* Salary range is an estimate based on our AI, ML, Data Science Salary Index 💰

Tags: AWS DataOps Data pipelines ELT ETL Git Linux Open Source Pipelines Python Research SDLC Security Spark

Perks/benefits: Flex hours

Region: Asia/Pacific
Country: New Zealand
Job stats:  13  3  0
Category: Engineering Jobs

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