Livestock Improvement Corporation (LIC) Looking for Cloud Data Architect at Paeroa, Waikato, New Zealand Full Time

LIC have been providing innovative farming solutions for over 100 years, and today, we’re proudly NZ’s leading agri-tech and dairy herd improvement cooperative. We are a part of a wider NZ Inc. and play a key role in driving economic growth in NZ. We achieve this through our world-renowned technology and genetics products, which create more sustainable and profitable farms.

About The Role

The role is responsible for the strategy, architecture, and direction of the data and analytics components of our Digital Platform. This is an exciting time to join LIC, as we embark on a transformational journey to build a contemporary technology platform, leveraging public cloud offerings, to enable a focus on delivering valuable information and digital products to our customers and partners.

Key focus areas include:

• Understanding and reviewing our current data warehousing, ETL and reporting architecture.
• Partnering closely with key business stakeholders to evolve the Data Strategy.
• Ensuring a fit-for-purpose Data Architecture solution is delivered.
• Provide technology leadership to the data engineering and BI teams.
• Work in an agile way with data engineering and BI teams on the delivery of the roadmap.
• Ensure adequate due diligence, including considering the cost, strategic contribution and technical debt of solutions.
• Maintain professional currency and keep abreast of wider industry developments in cloud data architectures.
• Work closely with Product Owners and development teams to ensure that the data architecture is well understood and effectively delivered.

About You.

Our ideal candidate will have solid experience in modern cloud-based data architectures including AWS (preferred) and Azure. You’ll be confident in data architectural concepts such as integration, APIs, data lakes, data pipelines, structured and unstructured data and toolsets such as ETL, cloud data warehousing, reporting and dashboarding.

LIC have a strong R&D capability, which needs to be supported by a data architecture that enables their work through big data and machine learning.

You’ll also confidently demonstrate:

• A solid working background as a Senior Data Engineer, Data Architect, Cloud Architect, or relevant experience through technical leadership roles.
• Proven experience in traditional data warehousing as well as modern cloud data architectures.
• Experience with Snowflake, Fivetran, Coalesce, Power BI / Tableau, and other related tools is preferred.
• Experience in data analytics with some exposure to Machine Learning environments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills giving you the ability to share and communicate ideas to executive staff, business sponsors, and technical resources in clear concise language.
• Ability to think strategically, to conceptualise, define, design and plan product and data architecture roadmaps, including the articulation of trade-offs and risk.
• A Degree in a relevant discipline and / or equivalent experience in Software engineering.

In return

This is a pivotal role, where you’ll ensure we deliver on our investment into our Digital Platform and Data Strategy. You’ll have plenty of opportunity to achieve great results in this rewarding role.

In addition to a competitive salary plus 10% discretionary bonus, you’ll receive some great benefits including:

• Extra leave days
• Flexible working options
• Discounted health, life, income and disability insurances
• Access to our employee shares scheme
• Wellbeing discounts
• Free onsite parking
• Our Hamilton office is located in a park-like setting, with tennis court, pool, and onsite café and bar!

The role is based from our Hamilton Head Office, with a flexible split of work-from-home time, and office-based time. This would suit a candidate living commutable distance from Hamilton (ie wider-Waikato, BoP, Auckland regions).

Click apply to submit your confidential application directly to LIC for consideration.