Senior Cloud Data Engineer

About the role:

As a Senior Cloud Data Engineer, you'll be hands-on across both cloud infrastructure and data engineering, helping shape and deliver our Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and analytics capabilities.

You'll design, build, and improve cloud and data solutions that are secure, scalable, and aligned with enterprise standards, while also contributing to the ongoing modernisation of legacy data workloads.

This is a practical, delivery-focused role that suits someone with strong engineering judgement who enjoys collaborating across teams, improving standards, and working with modern cloud and data technologies.

This role is based at our Support Office in Papanui, Christchurch and is worked 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, with hours worked between 7:00am and 6:00pm. The base salary range for this position is $135,000 - 145,000, dependent on skills and experience.

Key responsibilities:

• Contribute to the design and evolution of the GCP cloud platform and data engineering architecture.
• Collaborate with Public Cloud, Architecture, and Cybersecurity teams to design and deliver infrastructure, data platform, and access-related changes.
• Help define, uplift, and embed engineering standards across infrastructure, data pipelines, data models, and development practices.
• Design, build, and maintain GCP infrastructure including IAM, resource hierarchy, networking, and environments using Terraform or similar IaC tools.
• Design, build, and maintain data transformation pipelines and analytical data models using Dataform, dbt, or equivalent frameworks on BigQuery.
• Contribute to BigQuery warehouse design, optimisation, performance tuning, and cost management.
• Work closely with stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver solutions to agreed scope, quality, and timeframes.

About you:

You're an experienced cloud and data engineer who enjoys being hands-on while thinking about the bigger picture. You're comfortable working in enterprise environments, collaborating across technical and non-technical teams, and taking responsibility for delivering high-quality solutions. Ideally you'll also have:

• A bachelor's qualification in Information Technology or a related field.
• Strong experience designing and implementing cloud platform services such as IAM, environments, networking, and resource hierarchy (GCP experience highly regarded).
• Strong data engineering experience, including data warehousing, dimensional modelling, and ELT/ETL patterns.
• Practical production experience with BigQuery or a comparable cloud-native data warehouse.
• Experience using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred).
• Experience with Dataform, dbt, or similar SQL-based transformation frameworks.

Don't Meet Every Requirement?

We encourage you to apply anyway. We are looking for individuals with diverse experiences and are keen to hear from those who believe they have the drive and potential to succeed in this role.

How to apply:

Ready to take on the challenge? Click "apply" now! Applications will close 8 October 2026 and will only be accepted via our careers site.

If you have any questions about the role, or experience any issues submitting your application, please email [email protected]

Join us in feeding the South Island.

Why join us?

• Our approach to flexible working is based on trusting and empowering our people to manage their time and deliver results while balancing the needs of their personal lives.
• We're committed to equitable outcomes, and we offer additional paid parental leave, free period products and financial health checks to name a few.
• We support your wellbeing with Southern Cross health insurance for you and your family after a qualifying period, discounts at local gyms, access to online wellbeing tools, and a prayer and privacy room onsite.
• We offer continuous learning and professional growth, as well as access to our extensive online training library and endless opportunities.
• We're proud of our supportive team environment, and our positive and friendly culture that's made fun by Furry Friend Fridays and monthly social events!
• We're a Pride Pledge organisation, and we are committed to an inclusive workplace where everyone thrives, every day and we celebrate our diversity as strength.
• Our Papanui based office has free carparking, an in-house café.

About us:

We're a team of 14,000 who make sure South Islanders have access to the groceries and essentials they need. Proudly 100% Kiwi-owned and operated, our co-operative has more than 180 PAK'nSAVE, New World, Four Square and On the Spot stores feeding the South Island.

We value being at the heart of our communities, like we've always been, to make the South Island a better place - for today and for many generations to come. From sunny Golden Bay all the way to Stewart Island, there's a Foodstuffs store serving you and your whānau.

Our success is down to our people who bring their skills, experience, passion, and expertise to make Foodies an amazing and rewarding place to work. Our co-op has a wide variety of roles to offer, and endless opportunities for development.

Our values:

At Foodies, together we drive success to be our best and care for our whānau. We recognise that it takes a collective effort to achieve success, and we thrive on fostering a culture of collaboration to drive innovation and embracing challenges as a united team. We are committed to supporting our people, and to positively impact the lives of South Islanders every day.