Why you'll love working with Tower
At Tower, we put our people first and pride ourselves on creating a diverse and inclusive space that provides opportunities for everyone to thrive. As a unique Kiwi and Pacific insurer operating for almost 150 years, with roots all the way back to Dunedin NZ, we embrace and encourage our people to bring their whole selves to work.
We celebrate all ages, genders, sexual orientations, races, religions, anything that helps to make our people special. We are proud holders of the Rainbow Tick which is an important symbol for us.
What will you be doing?
Your main purpose is to contribute to the success of Tower by delivering the Data Platform capabilities and services, as well as improving our existing platforms and engineering practices.
Setting you up for success
You will be successful in the role by owning the solutions and building them in a secure, reliable, and scalable manner.
Your mandate:
- Develop end to end data pipelines using technologies such as Talend, DBT and Azure
- Perform duties as a Snowflake Administrator. This includes role, schema and database creation as well as MFA security and AAD
- Translate functional requirements into technical specifications
- An understanding of data architecture, data models, data migration, integration, analysis, and visualisation
- Exposure to ETL/ELT and Governance tools
- Strong hands-on experience delivering database solutions using advanced SQL, TSQL, Python etc
- Knowledge of Cloud Data Warehousing technologies such as Snowflake and Azure
What you'll need
- At least 4 years' experience in the Data Engineering/modelling space.
- An understanding of the general insurance or financial services market would be beneficial
- Data Consulting or professional services experience is an advantage
- Proven experience work with Snowflake Administration and Development tools - SnowSQL, Snowflake
- Have a 'customer first mind-set' and a bias for getting things done with an exceptional problem-solving skill
- Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively within a team
- Ability to develop new data pipelines using Talend, DBT or equivalent tool
- High attention to detail and with the ability to analyse data using tools like Power BI or Tableau.
- Self-confidence and professional manner when working with key stakeholders as you understand and interpret requirements.
We pride ourselves on encouraging everyone to bring their whole selves to work, and we embrace diverse opinions, experience and backgrounds. Making sure we are doing what's right.
Our commitment is to create an inclusive workplace where our people come first, we feel valued, safe and respected. If you feel comfortable doing so, please let us know early in the process if there are any diversity needs, we can meet or make reasonable adjustments to enable you to shine. If you would like to note which pronouns you use at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.
What Tower will bring to the table
In addition to a competitive salary, we offer benefits to celebrate and look after our Tower employees.
Highlights include:
- Our people come first as we offer 16 weeks of paid leave for the primary carer and 4 weeks of paid leave partner`s leave.
- A paid day off on your birthday, as well as two extra annual leave days every year and the option to buy an additional eight days of leave. So up to six weeks off!
- Annual Performance Review where you get to showcase your progression.
- Wellness leave instead of sick leave so you can proactively look after your health and wellbeing.
- Career growth - we promote internal capability; we also have programmes that recognise star performers.
- Flexible workplace opportunities at our beautiful 6 Green Star Fanshawe St office packed with modern technologies, stand-up desks, open space and coffee machines in two large modern kitchens with cafe-inspired dining areas.
- Discounts on Tower insurance products of up to 50%.
- Free Life Insurance of up to four times your annual base salary.
- Paid parental leave top up for 16 weeks.
- Retail deals and discounts with Les Mills, JB Hi-Fi, PB Tech, The Coffee Club, Warehouse Stationery and more.
Apply now
Please note: We're eager to get the right person on board as soon as possible. We don't have set closing dates, so we'll start reviewing applications as they come in. Don't wait—apply now to make sure you're considered promptly.
