Data Engineer Business Systems

A career with EROAD offers the unique opportunity to work in a fast-growing organisation that is at the forefront of intelligent transport solutions - enhancing road safety improving productivity and reducing environmental impact. EROADs mission is to deliver intelligence you can trust for a better world tomorrow.

What Were Looking For

The Data Engineer plays a key role in EROADs enterprise data transformation journey. This role is a full-stack data engineering role primarily focused on analytics engineering half of data engineering to build normalised Kimball tables using dbt Cloud and Snowflake. This role will also include metadata-driven ingestion and some Power BI reporting. You will contribute to end-to-end data delivery from ingesting source data through to transforming it and enabling high quality self-service reporting and analytics with a focus on enabling self-service for users using Snowflake tables.

The successful candidate will work closely with other engineers analysts and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality scalable data solutions that support self-service analytics and evidence-based decision-making.

About the Role

Job Responsibilities

Data Engineering (10% of development work)

• Support data ingestion processes from source systems into Snowflake.
• Contribute to data quality checks documentation and testing.
• Participate in platform monitoring and troubleshooting.

Analytics Engineering (80% of development work)

• Develop and maintain modern dbt models and pipelines for data transformation into normalised Kimball tables and denormalised report tables.
• Contribute to data quality checks documentation and testing.
• Participate in platform monitoring and troubleshooting.

Power BI Development (10% of development work)

• Design build and maintain Power BI dashboards.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into effective visualizations.
• Optimize report performance and ensure data accuracy and consistency.
• Support Power BI governance including workspace management access control and usage monitoring.

Collaboration & Enablement

• Implement best practices in data modelling and transformation.
• Provide support and training to business users on Power BI usage.
• Help promote a self-service analytics culture across the organization.

Health and Safety

• All our people have a responsibility for their own and others safety and wellbeing.
• This includes following all safety and wellbeing procedures and instructions including reporting hazards incidents and accidents and participating in safety and participating in safety and wellbeing initiatives and programs as required.

Note: These duties may change from time to time to meet operational or other requirements.

Job Qualifications

Competencies

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Effective communicator with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Detail-oriented with a focus on data quality and usability.
• Eagerness to learn and grow in modern data engineering practices.

Skills & Required Experience

Required Skills

• Skilled in using dbt Cloud for data transformation.
• Proficient in Snowflake (or comparable cloud data platforms).
• Proficient in data visualisation in Power BI (or similar BI tools).
• Advanced SQL skills with a solid understanding of modern data modelling concepts.

Required Experience

• 3 years of dbt Cloud or dbt Core development experience.
• Experience in Power BI development in a commercial/business environment.
• Background working with cloud-based data warehousing platforms (e.g. Snowflake Redshift BigQuery).
• Involvement in ELT processes and data pipeline development.
• Practical experience applying modern data warehouse ELT patterns and methodologies using modern tooling.
• Demonstrated success collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver data solutions.
• Familiarity with enterprise systems (e.g. D365 Salesforce).
• Relevant certifications and formal training in Snowflake dbt or Power BI.

Preferred Skills

• Exposure to Microsoft Fabric and Azure Data Factory.
• Understanding of data governance and self-service BI principles.

Minimum Requirements

• Must be authorized to work in New Zealand already (we will not sponsor work visas).
• Must be able to work in our Albany Auckland office 4 days per week.

Why Youll Love Working at EROAD

EROAD is a true Kiwi success story in the tech sector! Publicly listed since 2012 were represented on the NZX and ASX and continue to grow rapidly across New Zealand Australia the Philippines and the USA.

At EROAD we value diversity and are proud to be a multicultural organisation. We invest in our people through comprehensive medical coverage unlimited sick leave employee recognition programs EAP offerings and continuous learning opportunities.

Our people are at the heart of everything we do - we foster a culture of innovation collaboration and belonging where you can bring your ideas to life.

Join EROAD and be part of a purpose-driven organisation thats shaping the future of connected transport- we cant wait to hear from you.