Westpac Looking for Data Engineer at Wellington Central, Wellington Full Time

• Permanent opportunity
• Wellington location and work from home flexibility
• Great banking benefits + 10% superannuation on top of your salary
• A great culture with fantastic career opportunities
• Regular monthly staff get togethers, along with service group social activities

The Data Sourcing Enrichment Service provides support for real time data capture. You will be working with cross-functional teams extracting timely relevant insights from our data assets. Your mission will be to contribute to the continuous development of a modern data platform to enable our user base to react to these changes as they occur.

For over 160 years we’ve been supporting New Zealanders to help them achieve their financial goals. From opening your first account through to retirement, we’re here to support you along every step of your financial journey. We’re driven to use our experience and size to help local communities and businesses achieve great things – because alone we are strong, but together we are stronger.

Mō te Tūranga | About the Role

We are continuing our strategy and accelerating towards the delivery of a truly differentiated customer experience and a purpose-led, customer centric culture. We are actively agile, and lean methodologies to support a new way of working built around great teams.

We believe people are the key to a successful organisation. We value people, their happiness, and wellbeing, engagement and career aspirations. Along with gettting other things done.

We want you to be part of creating and leading an amazing work culture within our busy environment and embracing the Westpac way of working.

As part of the Platforms & AI Service Group you will be working with small and dynamic Cross-functional teams, you will be required to work on the development of real time data streaming pipelines for key business objectives.

Me aha ahau kia angitu? | What do I need to be successful?  

• Experience in ETL, relational databases and related components
• Experience with Git source repository
• Working with encrypted data and secure engineering practices
• Experience of working in an Agile and DevOps focused work environment
• Knowledge of Spark and HDFS (at least one of Scala, Python or Java)
• Knowledge of real time data streaming via Kafka
• Linux know how
• Expertise of release management and change management practices (Jenkins)

Westpac Hei Wāhi Mahi | Working at Westpac

As well as good remuneration  and a great culture, joining the Westpac family means you will get some of the best banking, wealth, and insurance benefits in the market. We back our employees by helping them work towards industry-recognised qualifications, using online learning, training modules and career planning tools for you to grow with us. We will even pay you to do volunteer or community work.

As an equal opportunity employer, we are proud to have created a culture and work environment that values diversity and flexibility – and champions inclusion. We’ve been awarded the rainbow tick accreditation, we promote, and support flexibility and we’re listed as one of the top 50 employers in the world for women.

Now more than ever we are committed to leading by example to help New Zealanders succeed – because together, we are greater.

 Nā mātou te rourou | What you’ll get

• We offer flexible working arrangements (home & office)
• 4 weeks standard holiday + 5 additional days of wellbeing leave
• Purchased leave options up to 4 weeks per year
• Banking benefits and insurance discounts
• Career growth – we promote internal capability; we have programmes that recognise star performers
• Market leading superannuation and Kiwi Saver options
• Environmental and community care programmes
• Staff matching gifts – matching your donations to charities
• Generous parental leave – and top up government paid parental leave