Data Lifecycle Engineer at Bank of New Zealand

Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

28 Jun, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

30 Mar, 26

Experience

2 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Data Impact Analysis, Data Management, Risk Management, Data Quality, Data Lineage, Metadata, Critical Data Elements, System Changes Analysis, Data Model Analysis, Integration Analysis, Root-Cause Analysis, Remediation, Testing Coordination, System Decommissioning, Platform Migration, Data Governance

Industry

Banking

Description

Worker Type: Maximum Term/Fixed Term (Fixed Term) Here at BNZ, it's about more than just banking. We work together in an agile, energising environment to create innovative solutions though our promise "If you can imagine a better future, let's find a way." We support wellbeing, flexible working and have a generous leave offering. No two days are the same. Ko mātou tēnei | This is Us At BNZ, we’re committed to building trusted, high‑quality data that supports our customers, regulators, and stakeholders to make confident decisions. Our Digital, Data & Analytics tīma (team) plays a critical role in enabling this — working closely with program delivery teams to manage data risk, ensure continuity, and unlock value across the data lifecycle. We’re looking for a Data Lifecycle Engineer to join our team and help provide early visibility of data impacts across change, delivery, and platform evolution. Mō te Tūranga | About the Role As a Data Lifecycle Engineer, you’ll sit at the intersection of delivery, data management, and risk. Your role is to proactively identify, assess, and coordinate data impacts across releases, initiatives, and system changes — ensuring downstream reporting, regulatory, and business data needs are protected. You’ll act as the day‑to‑day data impact coordination point across delivery teams, data stewards, risk, compliance, and analytics — helping reduce fragmentation, avoid surprises, and enable confident release decisions. This is a full-time fixed term opportunity based in Auckland. This is a hybrid role with three days in the office and two days where you can work flexibly. We sat down with our Head of Data – Core Banking (Who you’ll report to), and they let us know the following about the role. What are the day to day tasks the person in this role will complete? Performing release by release data impact analysis across initiatives by reviewing changes to source systems, data models, attributes and integrations. Identifying impacts to downstream reports, regulatory submissions, Critical Data Elements (CDEs) and data products. Engaging with upstream and downstream process owners to confirm data requirements, acceptance criteria and dependencies. Supporting investigation of data quality issues, reconciliation defects, and integration failures, including root-cause analysis and coordination of remediation and testing. Supporting legacy system decommissioning and platform migrations by identifying data dependencies and ensuring reporting and regulatory continuity. The primary data contact for delivery teams – coordinating across governance, risk, compliance and analytics to create a single trusted view of data impacts. What is the team culture and environment like? The team is made up of experienced data experts and engineers at all levels of experience who regularly share their recent projects, learnings and tips and tricks. In the wider group (Digital, Data & Analytics) we foster an open, flexible and inclusive environment that supports collaboration within the immediate team and across the teams in the wider DD&A organisation. What projects / work will the candidate be working on now and into the next year? The successful candidate will be working on both short and long term data projects in the core banking subject area (e.g. Lending, Products and Transactions), working directly with various parts of the business to identify end to end data impacts and enable data solutions. What is the most exciting thing about this opportunity? This role sits right where strategy meets delivery. As a Data Lifecycle Engineer, you’ll have a front‑row seat to major initiatives, platform changes, and regulatory outcomes — with the opportunity to influence how data is designed, protected, and consumed end‑to‑end. You’ll work closely with delivery teams to surface data impacts early, reduce surprises at release time, and help the organisation make confident decisions during change. It’s a unique chance to build deep domain knowledge, shape how data risk is managed in practice, and make a tangible impact on some of BNZ’s most critical data assets. What is the most challenging thing about this opportunity? The challenge of this role lies in operating across complex change and competing priorities. You’ll be working with multiple delivery teams, systems, and stakeholders — often where data ownership is distributed and impacts aren’t always obvious upfront. Influencing outcomes without direct authority, navigating ambiguity, and bringing clarity to incomplete or evolving information will be part of the day‑to‑day. Success in this role requires strong judgement, resilience, and the ability to balance pragmatism with rigour — ensuring data risks are surfaced and addressed while still enabling delivery to move at pace. What is your favourite thing about working for BNZ? The people and culture - people are truly valued and while our data is not perfect, we strive to find a way to make things work. What attributes will this person display to be successful in this role? We are looking for someone with curiosity and a love of data, combined with a passion for understanding end to end data lifecycle from design and ingestion through to remediation and decommissioning, along with: Solid experience working with data in complex environments, applying practices such as data quality, lineage, metadata and Critical Data Elements in a day-to-day delivery. Strong ability to analyse how changes to systems, data models and integration impact downstream data consumers. Experience clearly documenting data impacts, mitigations, residual risks by working with a wide range of technical and business stakeholders. Nau Mai ki te Pēke o Aotearoa | Come to the Bank of New Zealand Please Note: Applications for this vacancy close on Monday 13 April 2026. We review applications as they are received and may close advertising early. This is an exciting opportunity to join us! We're bold thinkers who are taking brave steps to create a company that people want to work for, and customers want to bank with. If you're ready to join a fun organisation where we are proud of our culture and how we are helping New Zealander's to 'Find their way', then show your interest by submitting your application - we can't wait to read it. Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi, engari he toa takitini" - Success is not the work of an individual, but the work of many.” Closing Date: 13 April 2026 Applications will be reviewed regularly across the advertising period, but we do reserve the right to close applications early. Welcome to BNZ Careers! We are excited for you to apply for a role with us. We're the bank for New Zealand. Our purpose is to serve customers well and help our communities prosper. Every day we find ways for our customers, our people, and our communities to thrive through strong values, diverse teams, and great people - just like you.

Responsibilities

The role involves performing release-by-release data impact analysis across initiatives by reviewing changes to source systems, data models, and integrations, and identifying impacts to downstream reports and regulatory submissions. The engineer will act as the primary data contact for delivery teams, coordinating across governance, risk, compliance, and analytics to ensure data needs are protected.