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(Senior) Data Engineering Lead

Auror Auckland Office💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-13 → 2026-09-25

Core

Lead the design and delivery of scalable, reliable, and observable data platforms and pipelines to power products, insights, and AI capabilities for the retail crime prevention industry.

Role type

Senior IC Data Engineering Lead (Technical Leadership & Delivery)

Builds

Scalable data platforms, pipelines, consumption models, and data infrastructure on Azure, GCP, and Snowflake.

Domain

Retail crime prevention / Data Engineering / Cloud Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Cloud data platform architecture, Data orchestration (Dagster, Airflow), Data transformation (dbt), Data warehousing (Snowflake, BigQuery, Cloud Spanner), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), CI/CD, Containerization (Kubernetes), Data governance, Technical leadership, Team coaching, Hiring

Preferred skills

AI tooling integration, Observability engineering, Strategic data planning

Technologies

Dagster, Airflow, dbt, Apache Iceberg, Cloud Spanner, BigQuery, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Snowflake, Terraform, Kubernetes

Responsibilities

Lead design and delivery of scalable data platforms and pipelines; Partner with software engineering to design data models for operational and analytical consumption; Own and evolve data infrastructure across Azure, GCP, and Snowflake; Drive continuous improvements in data quality, reliability, and observability; Review high-risk technical designs and production changes; Build and support a high-performing team of data engineers through coaching, feedback, and hiring.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities

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