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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.

Komātoutēnei| This is Us

At BNZ,we’recommitted to building trusted, high‑quality data that supports our customers, regulators, andstakeholdersto make confident decisions. Our teamplays a critical role in enabling this—working closely withprogramdelivery teams to manage data risk, ensure continuity, and unlock value across the data lifecycle.

We’relooking for a Data Lifecycle Engineer to join our team and help provide early visibility of data impacts across change, delivery, and platform evolution.

MōteTūranga| About the Role

As a Data Lifecycle Engineer,you’llsit at the intersection of delivery, data management, and risk. Your role is to proactivelyidentify, assess, and coordinate data impacts across releases, initiatives, and system changes — ensuring downstream reporting, regulatory, and business data needs are protected.

You’llact 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 afull-timefixed 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 ofData – Core Banking(Whoyou’llreport to), and they let us know the following about the role. 

Whataretheday to daytasks the person in this role will complete?

• Performing release by release data impact analysis across initiatives by reviewing changes to source systems, data models,attributesand integrations.

• Identifyingimpacts to downstream reports, regulatory submissions,Critical DataElements (CDEs)and data products

• Engaging with upstream and downstream process owners to confirm data requirements, acceptancecriteriaanddependencies

• 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 byidentifyingdata dependencies and ensuring reporting and regulatory continuity.

• The primary data contact for delivery teams – coordinating across governance, risk,complianceand 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 dataexperts and engineersat all levels of experience who regularly share their recent projects,learningsand tipsand tricks.

What projects / work will the candidate be working on now and into the next year?

The successful candidate will be working on bothshort and long termdata projects in the core banking subject area (e.g. Lending, Products and Transactions), working directly withvarious parts of the businesstoidentifyend to end data impactsand enabledata solutions.

What is the most exciting thing about this opportunity?

This role sits right where strategy meets delivery. As a Data Lifecycle Engineer,you’llhave 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’llwork closely with delivery teams to surface data impacts early, reduce surprises at release time, and help the organisation make confident decisions during change.It’sa 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 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 forunderstandingendtoend data lifecyclefrom design and ingestion through to remediation and decommissioning, along with:

• Solid experienceworking with data in complex environments, applying practices such as data quality, lineage,metadataand Critical Data Elements in aday-to-day delivery.

• Strong ability to analyse how changes to systems, datamodelsandintegrationimpact downstream data consumers.

• Experience clearly documenting data impacts, mitigations, residual risks by working with a wide range of technical and business stakeholders.

Nau Mai kitePēkeo Aotearoa | Come to the Bank of New Zealand

PleaseNote:Applications for this vacancy close on Thursday 4 June2026. 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: 04 June 2026

A pplications will be reviewed regularly across the advertising period, but we do reserve the right to close applications early.