At Fidelity Life, we take pride in our role in New Zealand's Growth Story, safeguarding the way of life for New Zealanders for over 50 years. Our success contributes directly to the growth of New Zealand, through our shareholders, customers, and people, making us a unique player in the market. As a trusted and dedicated contributor to protecting New Zealanders, we invite you to join our team and make a meaningful impact.
Job Description
Role Overview:
As a Data and AI Engineering lead, you will lead, scale, and mature high-performing Data & AI engineering team that design, build, and operationalise reliable, secure, and scalable data pipelines and AI solutions. You will set the architecture and engineering patterns, frameworks, roadmaps and ways of working to deliver sustainable solutions that support Fidelity Life’s Winning Aspiration and strategy.
The role ensures alignment between business strategy, data architecture, and engineering execution, while fostering a culture of accountability, AI enabled innovations, and continuous improvement.
You will provide data architecture and engineering leadership across BAU and change delivery, guiding Fidelity Life toward a modern cloud-based target-state architecture.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead, mentor and develop a diverse team of data engineers and data platforms specialists. Drive workforce planning, hiring and performance management for the team members
Define the architectural strategy and roadmap for the data and analytics domain with business stakeholders, partners, and technology leaders
Partner with the Technology Leaders and leadership team to define AI engineering practices and standards, in use across all domains
Make Data Platform decisions that enable other domains (digital, policy and claims administration, finance and actuarial, reporting, pricing, underwriting), by partnering with the relevant Technology leaders
Lead quarterly change delivery, aligning stakeholders to deliver efficiently and effectively
Design the platform roadmap for optimal cost outcomes, champion simplification and optimisation
Build relationships across the business to align delivery to strategic goals
Desired Skills and Experience
Qualifications:
Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, information systems, data management, or a related field.
10-15 years proven experience in data engineering, data architecture, data platforms, or related roles, with a strong emphasis on modern cloud data architectures and streaming platforms.
Relevant Data Engineering or Architect certifications such as Microsoft/AWS/Google certified data engineer or architect are a plus.
Experience and Skills
Experience in delivering innovative data and AI solutions to business that improve employee and customer experience and helps senior leadership in effective decision making
Extensive experience with event-driven architectures and domain-driven design to create loosely coupled, scalable data solutions
Proven delivery of data roadmaps that enable whole-of-business transformation
Hands-on experience with event streaming and messaging platforms
Hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric, Lakehouse medallion architecture and Spark; strong SQL and Python skills
Advanced experience in designing and engineering generative and agentic AI solutions is a plus
Advanced skills applying an AI-first engineering approach (e.g., GitHub Copilot)
Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure
Proven leader with an ability to manage risk and lead significant organisational change
Excellent communication, coaching and listening skills across all organisational levels
Collaborative and adaptable; able to manage multiple workstreams with strong organisation and time management
Strong commercial acumen and stakeholder management (internal and external)
Why Join Us?
If you are ready to take on a rewarding role where you can make a positive impact, apply now to join our team at Fidelity Life. Together, we can continue to protect and enhance the lives of New Zealanders.
Apply Now:
If you are ready to take on this exciting challenge and meet the qualifications above, we want to hear from you! Please apply now and we will be in touch soon.
Fidelity Life is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Recruitment agencies: Please be aware that we have established partnerships with a small number of preferred suppliers and will not engage with unsolicited communication from agencies outside of this pool
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