Kaipūhanga Raraunga Mātāmua Senior Data Engineer

Job Description

Z has a clear purpose: Powering better journeys, today and tomorrow. As one of New Zealand’s largest transport energy companies, we have a commitment to delivering safe, secure, and reliable transport energy – with the opportunity to deliver new journeys, with new energy solutions in a changing world.

We are proud to be the Kiwi contingent in the Ampol Group, an independent Trans-Tasman energy company, with trading offices across the globe, which are united behind our shared purpose. While many of the challenges and opportunities we face go beyond national boundaries, together we have the scale, influence, and capability to deliver for our customers, communities, and our people.

Tech, Digital & Data @ Ampol

As we embark on our digital transformation, we are committed to making Ampol easier to work with and within, enhancing every interaction through innovative solutions.

Our approach is anchored in data-driven decision-making and advanced technology integration, allowing us to create seamless and personalised customer experiences that truly resonate. By prioritizing value-based decisions and outcomes, we ensure that our digital transformation will drive meaningful impact and measurable outcomes.

We are dedicated to empowering our business through technology-enabled differentiation, strengthening our foundations to build sustainable value for the future. Our team thrives on the challenge of innovation—dreaming up big ideas, questioning the norm, and tackling complex problems. Together, we are shaping a future that not only meets the needs of today but anticipates the demands of tomorrow.

Join us as we embrace this journey of transformation, committed to delivering exceptional value and experiences that make a lasting impact on our business, customers and industry.

About the role:

As a Kaipūhanga Raraunga Mātāmua Senior Data Engineer, you'll bring a rare blend of data engineering, data architecture and data modelling expertise to the team. You'll partner closely with business stakeholders, product teams and Group Data functions to understand customer and marketing challenges, translate them into clear data solutions, and provide technical leadership across the delivery lifecycle.

This is more than a hands–on engineering role. You'll help shape data architecture decisions, influence engineering standards, mentor team members and guide the evolution of our customer data platforms as we continue to mature our loyalty and CRM capabilities across both Australia and New Zealand.

Working across technologies including Databricks, Snowflake, Azure and Terraform, you'll help deliver scalable, secure and observable data products while contributing to the future direction of our customer data ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and optimise modern data pipelines, data products and customer data solutions using Databricks, Snowflake and Azure technologies.
• Support data architecture and high-level solution design activities in partnership with Group Data Architecture teams.
• Develop scalable data models that support customer, loyalty, CRM and MarTech initiatives across Australia and New Zealand.
• Work closely with business stakeholders to understand challenges, define problem statements and translate requirements into actionable data solutions.
• Deliver production‑grade data platforms with strong focus on quality, performance, governance, security and reliability.
• Implement observability practices including monitoring, lineage, logging, tracing and automated data quality controls.
• Contribute to technical direction, engineering standards and architectural decision‑making across the team.
• Mentor Data Engineers and actively support capability uplift through coaching, reviews and knowledge sharing.
• Champion modern engineering practices including Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD and automation.
• Collaborate across product, engineering and data teams to deliver high‑value customer outcomes.

What you’ll bring:

We're looking for a senior data professional who can think beyond pipelines and platforms. Someone who can partner with the business to understand customer and loyalty challenges, define the right data approach, and provide the architectural guidance that enables teams to deliver with confidence.

• Significant experience delivering modern data engineering solutions within complex enterprise environments.
• Strong expertise across both Databricks and Snowflake, with the ability to evaluate and work across multiple data platform technologies.
• Deep capability in data modelling and data engineering, with the confidence to operate across all three disciplines.
• Strong grasp of data architecture principles
• Advanced SQL and Python skills, coupled with experience building scalable and reliable data pipelines.
• Experience working with Azure data services, including Data Factory, Data Lake and cloud‑native data platforms.
• Familiarity with Terraform, Infrastructure as Code and modern CI/CD practices.
• Strong understanding of data governance, security, observability and operational excellence principles.
• Ability to influence technical direction and collaborate effectively with architects, engineers and business stakeholders.
• Proven experience mentoring engineers and helping uplift engineering capability within a team environment.
• A customer‑first mindset, with the ability to connect business problems to practical and scalable data solutions.

And of course, you’ll be passionate about what matters to Z, embracing and living our values to help us deliver on our aspirations and broader commitment to Aotearoa New Zealand.

What we can offer you

• A competitive remuneration package including short‑term incentive plan, medical insurance for you and your family, enhanced employer contribution for KiwiSaver
• Generous leave provisions including enhanced sick leave, parental leave benefits and the option to buy additional leave
• The balance of hybrid working, enjoy some of your week at home and some in our welcoming office space
• The opportunity to contribute and be part of a supportive team that is here to make a difference
• A chance to build your own capability through learning from some of the industry’s most knowledgeable people who have a desire to share their insights along with access to upskilling opportunities and career development across the organisation
• Two days a year to do Good in your Hood, though our volunteering scheme, a chance for you to help others in your community in a meaningful way to you

The base salary range for this role is $117,000.00 to $155,500.00 per annum, plus 15% STI based on company performance, a 5% KiwiSaver employer contribution and health insurance through Southern Cross.

Why Z

Z has always been a proud Kiwi company. We’re aspirational for our future, confident of our role in Aotearoa New Zealand’s success and deeply loyal to our customers, communities and people.

At Z we focus on achieving extraordinary outcomes by setting the appropriate context, rather than by telling our people what to do. By doing this, high performing and talented people deliver better results and are more personally fulfilled.

We’re distinctive in our approach and if you’re up for a challenge, we’d love you to be part of it. If Z sounds like a place you believe you can add value and grow your own capability, then make sure you read Our Why. This is our founding document and provides further insights in what it means to part of the Z whānau.

If Z feels like a good match for your head and your heart, come join us for one heck of a journey!

Additional Information

We care deeply for our people while pushing them to achieve their best as individuals and collectively as an organisation. Our flexible working approach and Rainbow Tick and Gender Tick accreditations - backed by our strong Group values, Whakatika Move as One, Whakaora Make it Happen, Whakamana Make it Count - have created an open and inclusive workplace that promotes personal development and is underpinned by a desire for our people and our communities to succeed.

One of the things we stand for at Z is Diversity & Inclusion. It is our belief that having a diverse workforce make it possible for our people to truly be themselves and deliver on our aspirations for Z.