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# Senior Data Engineer at Snapper

Department: Business ImprovementSeniority in posting: Experienced

**Setup**
: Hybrid

**Location**
: Wellington, Wellington

**Type**
: Full-time

**Level**
: senior

**Posted**
: Sep 3, 2026

## Description

The Senior Data Engineer will lead Snapper’s data architecture and warehouse platform, evaluating and recommending among Redshift, Snowflake, or ClickHouse, and leading end-to-end warehouse builds or migrations. The role also architects scalable Python/PySpark and AWS data pipelines, owns data quality and testing, applies Terraform and Git-based CI/CD, partners with product and business stakeholders, and mentors experienced data engineers. It is a full-time, experience-based position based in Wellington, New Zealand, reporting to a Principal Engineer and potentially managing up to six direct reports.

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