Kia ora! 
 
At Air New Zealand, we are on an accelerated journey to become the world’s most Digital Airline, and our Digital team is at the heart of this transformation. This is both an exciting and challenging time as we innovate and create solutions that will redefine the travel experience for our customers. Join us and be a part of the future of aviation. 
 
There is huge demand for insights from Air NZs unique and complex data landscape. We need Senior Analytics Engineers to work in cross-functional teams and bring robust, efficient, and integrated data models and products to life. Analytics Engineers speak the language of business teams and technical teams, able to translate data insights and analysis needs into models. 
 

The role you will play: 

• Take a forward-looking approach to developing the analytics and data engineering capabilities at Air New Zealand. 
• Collaborate with the team to gather business requirements, define analytics goals, and design data pipelines and models. 
• Build trust in all interactions and with Trusted Data Development. 
• Take ownership of key sections of the Enterprise Dimensional Model solutions. 
• Develop and maintain dbt code for the Enterprise Dimensional Model. 
• Maintain architecture and systems documentation following team standards. 
• Manage the data catalog to support self-service and single-source analytics. 
• Support business users and other team members in improving data literacy and learning modeling skills. 
• Document models and curate metadata. 
• Implement Data Ops principles in your work. 
• Co-develop and adhere to internal standards for style and best practices (e.g., SQL Style Guide) and maintain these through code reviews. 

What you will bring to this role: 

• 5+ years in data analysis, engineering, or a related role. 
• Experience leading technological advancements within your team. Keen interest in identifying gaps and opportunities such as tools, processes, AI. 
• Familiar with Agile way of working and decentralized analytics framework. 
• 5+ years designing and implementing data modeling in an enterprise scale. 
• 5+ years working with large-scale (1B+ rows) Data Warehouses/lake, in the cloud. 
• 5+ years building data pipeline using integration tools, languages, and automation, ideally in AWS ecosystem. 
• 5+ years building reports and dashboards in data visualization tools. 
• 5+ years creating project plans with clear tasks, milestones, and deliverables. 
• Strong communicator, able to achieve consensus across technical and business teams. 
• Experience explaining complex business and technical concepts clearly. 
• Familiarity with business areas such as spaneting, finance, sales, product, and more. 

Why should you join us? 

As demand for travel soars, Air New Zealand is leading the transformation of both domestic and international travel. In this role, youll work with experienced business experts on cross-functional teams, using cutting-edge technologies to help us provide the best flying experience on Earth. 
 
We’re looking for people with fresh ideas and technical skills to tackle complex challenges. You’ll support critical applications that enable operational staff to maintain and operate aircraft, minimizing disruptions to our customers journeys. 
 
Join us today and be part of the transformation! Take flight and apply today! 

At Air New Zealand, we are proudly committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and believe in creating a truly inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves and thrive. Our people are our greatest asset – because while everything else we do in our operation can be replicated by our competitors, it is our people that truly set us apart. We are firm believers in celebrating the differences and diversity of thought our people bring to their roles. We encourage candidates from diverse backgrounds, including those with a disability, additional health and mental health needs, and/or are neurodiverse to apply for our roles.

If you have encountered any accessibility barriers and require further information or reasonable accommodations to our recruitment process, please reach out to the recruiter listed on this job advert so they are able to support you to freely participate equitably in our recruitment and selection process.

Whāia te pae tawhiti kia tata. Ko te pae tata whakamaua, kia tina.

"Seek to bring distant horizons closer. Once near, seize them and make them your reality."