Senior Data Engineer

Serko is a cutting-edge tech platform in global business travel & expense technology. When you join Serko, you become part of a team of passionate travellers and technologists bringing people together, using the world's leading business travel marketplace. We are proud to be an equal-opportunity employer, we embrace the richness of diversity, showing up authentically to create a positive impact.

We are looking for someone who comes from a strong business intelligence and data engineering background. The Senior Data Engineer role will ensure that no days will be the same and there will always be exciting tasks to work on - from the usual data modelling, ingestion, transformation, orchestration, visualisation, data cataloging and data governance.

This is a 12-month fixed-term maternity leave cover.

• Collaborate with architects and principal engineers and provide technical expertise in selecting new or improving existing data platforms
• Work with Platform, Architecture, and Security teams to ensure data platform solutions are designed for performance, security, durability and scalability
• Participate in developing and implementing proof-of-concept/experiment projects to validate new data/database models and data platform solutions.
• Work with Engineering, Product Management and other business departments to achieve data extract, load, transform, analysis and visualisation needs
• Provide technical guidance to team members comprised of SQL developers, BI Developers, DBAs, data engineers and data/business analysts
• Develop new or improve existing complex SQL, PowerShell, Python, and Spark scripts used in both SQL-based and non-SQL-based OLTP and OLAP systems
• Build, run, and optimise the data pipelines and deployment pipelines
• Advocate for SQL and data engineering best practices
• Participate in an on-call roster

• A strong understanding of data warehouse, data lake, data lakehouse, and modern data engineering and the ability to communicate such.
• Experience working in an agile software company.
• Experience in the traditional data warehousing approach.
• Experience or knowledge in modern/cloud data warehousing solutions is a plus.
• Experience or knowledge in Data Vault 2.0 is a plus.
• Experience or familiarity in NoSQL Database (Cosmos DB, MongoDB, etc.) is a plus.
• Experience with modern practices and techniques (e.g. infrastructure automation, continuous integration, continuous delivery) is a plus.
• Keen interest in what's happening in the data platform space (SQL, NoSQL, Data Warehouse/Data Lake). We don't expect you to have hands-on experience with leading-edge technologies, but it would be good to understand how you keep up to date with any new trends.
• Open to receiving and giving feedback in a safe and inclusive work environment.
• Excited to learn about how our industry works and the impact we bring to our customers.

At Serko we aim to create a place where people can come and do their best work. This means you'll be operating in an environment with great tools and support to enable you to perform at the highest level of your abilities, producing high-quality, and delivering innovative and efficient results. Our people are fully engaged, continuously improving, and encouraged to make an impact.

Some of the benefits of working at Serko are:

• A competitive base salary
• KiwiSaver covered with employee contributions match up to 3% of salary, and life insurance.
• Health & Wellbeing: Discounted Southern Cross Health Insurance, access to confidential support, guidance and counselling service, wellbeing and voluntary leave, and free flu shots.
• Focus on development: Access to a learning & development platform, committed budget and opportunity for you to own your career pathways.