Data Lead

Job Description

• Lead the design and build of a new enterprise data platform from the ground up
• Join a high-growth New Zealand agritech business with significant influence on technical direction
• Combine hands-on engineering, data leadership, and people leadership in a highly visible role

About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Data Lead to own and evolve the data capability across a growing agritech organisation. This is a hands-on leadership role responsible for designing and building a modern data platform that brings together multiple product ecosystems, partner integrations, and complex operational datasets. You’ll play a key role in consolidating existing platforms, establishing data engineering best practices, and creating the foundations for analytics, reporting, and future AI-driven capabilities. Working closely with the CTO, Application Lead, and Integration Lead, you’ll help shape the organisation’s technical strategy while building a scalable platform that supports growth across New Zealand and Australia.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build a unified cloud-based data platform across multiple products and data domains
• Develop and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, APIs, and integration frameworks
• Establish modern data engineering standards, CI/CD practices, and automation processes
• Build and manage data lakes and analytics-ready datasets using AWS technologies
• Lead data quality, validation, reconciliation, and governance initiatives
• Deliver inbound and outbound integrations with customers, partners, and external platforms
• Define and execute the data roadmap across reporting, analytics, and insight generation
• Mentor, grow, and lead a high-performing data team
• Partner with business, product, and technology leaders to turn data into customer value

About You
Essential Experience

• Proven experience leading data engineering or data platform initiatives
• Strong expertise in ETL/ELT development, APIs, integrations, and modern data architectures
• Advanced SQL and hands-on PostgreSQL experience
• Strong Python engineering skills, including PySpark
• Experience with AWS data services including Glue, Lambda, Step Functions, and S3
• Proven experience building and managing cloud-based data platforms and data lakes
• Demonstrated people leadership experience with the ability to mentor and grow technical teams
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills

Highly Desirable

• Agritech, IoT, telemetry, or machine-generated data experience
• Experience with geospatial and time-series datasets
• Streaming data architecture experience
• Business intelligence, analytics, or machine learning exposure
• Understanding of New Zealand and Australian compliance or environmental reporting requirements

What We’re Looking For
You’ll be a technically strong Data Leader who enjoys building platforms from scratch, solving complex data challenges, and creating scalable solutions that support business growth. Equally comfortable in architecture discussions and hands-on delivery, you’ll have the ambition to become a key technical partner to the CTO and help shape the future direction of the organisation.

Apply Now
If you’re passionate about modern data platforms, cloud technologies, and leading teams in a fast-growing technology business, we’d love to hear from you. Ref 145931. 

Applicants must have the legal right to work in New Zealand.

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