Oritain Looking for Senior Data Engineer – Auckland or Dunedin based at Auckland Central, Auckland, New Zealand Full Time

Oritain, a global data company headquartered in Dunedin, is seeking a talented and experienced Senior Data Engineer to join their innovative team with the base being in either our Auckland or Dunedin offices. With additional hubs in London, Washington DC and Zug, Oritain provides data insights and scientific traceability to some of the biggest brands in the world. By helping these brands understand the origin of their products, Oritain builds trust and integrity within their supply chains while addressing critical issues such as deforestation and modern slavery.

As a Senior Data Engineer at Oritain, you will play a vital role in designing and implementing data solutions and infrastructure that enable effective collection, storage, processing, and analysis of large-scale datasets. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into scalable data pipelines and architectures. You will also be responsible for ensuring data quality, performance, and security throughout the data lifecycle.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-growing company with a global impact and be part of a team that leverages cutting-edge technologies to drive meaningful change.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with data scientists, and software developers to fulfill company requirements in data tooling and cleaning to ensure accurate data reporting
• Use Python, C#, JavaScript, Terraform, Azure, and best practices of ETL/ELT to automate new and existing data pipelines
• Drive production changes of the Data Platform via change control and code review on GitHub
• Write and troubleshoot GitHub actions (CI pipelines).
• Integrate Data Platform with external data providers to enrich core business data such as Google Cloud, Microsoft Bing and Open Supply Hub
• Propose changes to the change management team via the Architectural Decision Record (ADR) process
• Maintain documentation and manuals.
• Lead data migration projects via planning and development
• Manage data backups.
• Maintain and test disaster recovery plan
• Monitor and troubleshoot Cloud infrastructure, Services, and Applications.
• Collect and analyze logs
• Write unit tests for developments of the Data Platform
• Find data schema and data entry issues, work with Software Engineers to improve the overall data ingestion/egestion flows of the business
• Monitor the cost of infrastructure. Search for cost-effective alternatives as required

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, or related field
• Minimum of 5+ years of technical engineering experience working with coding in languages including but not limited to, C#, JavaScript, or Python
• Experience using agile methodologies or test-driven development (TDD)
• 3+ years of experience administrating or building on a major cloud provider (ideally Azure)
• Strong experience in Infrastructure as Code approach (Terraform)
• Experience with configuration management and automation
• Experience with data cleaning, migrations and pipelines (ETL/ELT)
• Experience with databases technologies such as MSSQL, MySQL, Postgres, Cosmos DB, Dynamo DB, Mongo DB, Snowflake
• Search engine technologies experience with Azure Cognitive Search, Elastic Search
• Experience with BI/Dashboarding technologies such as Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, Kibana, Grafana
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices, including containerization and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD)
• Experience with Git version control system
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
• Strong communication and teamwork skills
• Desire and ability to grow and improve with Oritain and help those around them do so too by contributing to the company’s culture
• Must be able to live & to legally work in New Zealand

Benefits

• 35 Days AL including public holidays
• 2 x Paid Volunteering Leave days
• Great company culture
• Employee Assistance Programme
• An opportunity to enhance your career with an organisation that has a strong sense of purpose. In this role you will help companies to protect the integrity of their product and to mitigate the risk in global supply chains
• You will also be exposed to a wide variety of people and areas within the business and be given the opportunity to learn from a highly skilled and passionate team. We have flexible working options and a competitive remuneration package