Principal Data Engineer (Snowflake)

Software Engineering

Data Engineer

Wellington

Permanent

Dom Gunn-Taylor
Dom Gunn-Taylor

Executive General Manager

Posted

August 5, 2025

  • Own the data platform and pipeline strategy end-to-end
  • Work with Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, Fivetran & modern tools
  • Can be remote within New Zealand
About the Company:
Our client is a fast-growing SaaS company with a mission to simplify and modernise operations across a global customer base. Their cloud-native platform serves high-volume, high-visibility use cases and is known for its intuitive design, API-first approach, and scalability.

About the Role:
This role takes full ownership of the Snowflake-based data lake, ETL/ELT pipelines, and overall data architecture. You’ll build secure, performant systems that enable analytics, product intelligence, reporting, and tenant-specific access across a multi-tenant SaaS platform.

Skills & Experience:
  • Strong background in cloud data architecture and ETL/ELT design
  • Deep experience with Snowflake or similar SQL cloud platforms
  • Knowledge of multi-tenant data access models and controls
  • Skilled with dbt, Airflow, Fivetran, and similar tooling
  • Familiarity with CI/CD, infrastructure as code in a data context
  • Collaborative mindset across Product, Finance, and Engineering
  • Bonus: Experience with ElasticSearch, streaming ingestion, or team leadership
Why Work Here?
  • High-impact, high-ownership opportunity
  • Agile and innovation-driven company culture
  • Work with cutting-edge data tools and architecture
  • Shape data strategy and help define future team growth
  • Supportive and collaborative cross-functional teams
  • Rapidly scaling business with strong momentum
  • Work from Home options available
Ready to take the lead on data infrastructure and unlock value at scale? Apply now!!

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