Data Engineer / KaiMataRau

Ready to grow your skills and cultivate digital foundations to support whānau to reach new heights?

Data Engineer / KaiMataRau

Digital kaitiakitanga is just one part of the amazingness that is Te Tihi o Ruahine. We're looking for someone who loves our kaupapa and sees how digital leadership can support whānau, hapū, iwi and communities shape their future. This role will help bring that vision to life by contributing to the development of fit-for-purpose digital solutions that create opportunities for iwi and Māori to lead innovation and realise whānau aspirations.

This role will transform, model, structure, and manage data to support analytics, reporting, and business decision-making. Further, bring a wealth of knowledge to support peer to peer learning amongst our data and digital specialist roles.

Key responsibilities include:

• Design and maintain data warehouse architecture and data models.

• Develop and manage data transformation processes and business rules.

• Curate, cleanse, and optimise datasets for reporting and analytics.

• Create and maintain semantic models to support Power BI and other reporting platforms.

• Manage data lineage, governance, and consistency across data products.

• Optimise data warehouse performance, storage, and scalability.

• Support the development of strategic data assets and enterprise reporting solutions.

Big bonus if you have had exposure to, or experience working with, cloud-based data platforms and modern data engineering tools, including Azure, Coalesce, Eightwire, Fivetran, Snowflake and Power BI.

Working alongside a small, dynamic team of digital and data specialists, and supported by a wider collective of eclectic skills and knowledge, you'll thrive in a colourful melting pot of talented people. We're looking for someone who brings their own expertise, enjoys growing the capability of others, and values the knowledge and experiences that others bring in return. You'll thrive in a fast-paced environment, embracing opportunities to stretch your thinking, challenge the status quo, and inspire others to do the same.

Te Tihi o Ruahine Whānau Ora Alliance

Our kaupapa is Whānau Ora and creating projects for whānau, hapū, iwi and hapori to dream big and achieve their own moemoeā. Are you ready to dream big too? Te Tihi is committed to realising the aspirations of Whānau Ora and is an organisation that brings together local Iwi/ Māori Health and Social Service providers, hapū and marae voices and local branches of national Māori organisations.

Te Tuahiwi is the backbone infrastructure of Te Tihi o Ruahine. We activate key levers to achieve whānau aspirations and outcomes and mobilise the Whānau Ora movement, including:

· Kaupapa Innovation: Whānau centred design of projects, products, services, and processes; Whānau centred and led service development.

· Communications: Fit for purpose communications.

· Te MataRau: Innovation of end-to-end Digital systems and solutions.

· Te Mana Whakahaere Raraunga: Strong and Agile data eco-system that mobilises Māori Data Sovereignty.

· Pikihia te Poutama: Advancement of skilled and high-functioning Kaimahi, and

· Puna Ora: Advocacy and coordination for Iwi and Māori provider advancement.

· Housing: Pathways to Home Ownership

Te Tihi is a team of innovators, creators, supporters and leaders. You will be bringing your technical knowledge and skills to our data/digital team to actively contribute to Māori development, Whānau Ora and whānau “Reaching New Heights”.

The role is 12-month fixed term, Part-Time 0.8. Flexible working arrangements available - at a base minimum this will include 4 days over a fortnight, based in Palmerston North office.

How to Apply:

If you are interested in this role and are entitled to work in New Zealand, then please contact our Taituarā / Office Support ([email protected]) for a Job Description and Application Form.

If you would then like to apply, please ensure you provide the following to the Taituarā / Office Support ([email protected]):

· Your Cover Letter

· Your Curriculum Vitae (C.V)

Applications close 28 August 2026 @ 5pm.