Hybrid Data Engineer

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About the role

  • Data Engineer building and maintaining data pipelines and datasets for Smartly, a FinTech company facilitating payroll for Kiwi businesses.

Responsibilities

  • Build, maintain, and enhance data pipelines using SQL and Python to ingest, transform, and serve data from core product systems and third-party sources.
  • Develop and maintain well-modelled analytical datasets to support reporting, dashboards, experimentation, and data science use cases.
  • Work closely with analysts and data scientists to understand data requirements and translate them into reliable, reusable data assets.
  • Monitor data pipelines and datasets, identifying and resolving data quality or reliability issues.
  • Contribute to data documentation, testing, and basic observability to improve trust and usability of data across the business.
  • Support the ongoing improvement of Smartly’s data tooling, pipelines, and development practices.
  • Operate comfortably within a cloud-based environment, with a working understanding of how data systems run in the cloud.

Requirements

  • 3+ years’ experience in a data engineering, analytics engineering, or similar role.
  • Strong SQL skills, with experience writing complex and performant queries.
  • Strong Python skills, particularly for data transformation, automation, and pipeline development.
  • Experience using Git or similar version control systems in a team environment.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD practices, including automated testing and deployment workflows.
  • Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure concepts (e.g. compute, storage, permissions), ideally within a modern cloud platform.
  • Experience working with relational databases and analytical data stores.
  • Familiarity with data modelling concepts for analytics (e.g. fact and dimension tables).
  • Comfortable working hands-on and owning data tasks end-to-end with appropriate support.
  • Able to collaborate effectively with analysts, data scientists, and software engineers.
  • Curious and proactive, with a desire to improve data quality and engineering practices.
  • Clear communicator, able to explain data issues and solutions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Job title

Data Engineer

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Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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