Analytics Engineer (Remote)

Tiakina te anamata, mā te tūhono i ngā tāngata me ngā wāhi o te inamata. Taking care of tomorrow: connecting people and place today.

Mercury is a bold future-focused organisation, providing energy and telecommunications to more Kiwi than anyone else, leading the way with renewable energy and working toward a sustainable future. At the heart is our purpose which pushes us to do all we can to create a better future for our people, our communities, and Aotearoa New Zealand.

Our Opportunity:

Based in Hamilton, this is a key role in our organisation for someone with a strong data product mindset who can bring a balance across two functions:

• The Analyst – the curiosity to understand the underlying business processes and to explore the associated data ensuring pipelines and models meet the business need.
• The Engineer – a product mindset bringing high quality engineering practices to all aspects of data processing for the data solutions we build and maintain.

In this role, you’ll be part of the cross functional ‘Generation and Trading’ squad working on one of Mercury’s core data platforms which provides data used by our Trading and Wholesale Markets teams for trading, reporting and analytical modelling. This platform is also used by multiple stakeholders across Generation and Finance to perform their own analytics and reporting functions.

Mercury has many projects in the pipeline expanding our renewable energy portfolio across hydro, geothermal wind as well as looking at other exciting opportunities to optimise how energy is produced and consumed across out portfolio of products, which all result in additional data requirements.

We’re looking for someone with a curious mindset as you’ll also be instrumental in updating our current platform, introducing new technology and practices to ensure that we make high quality data available to stakeholders across the business.

We’re looking for someone with a curious mindset that bring together our data in the best way to serve the needs of a diverse group of stakeholders.

Mercury operates in a hybrid flexible working environment where you can combine working from home with working from our sites and offices to collaborate with stakeholders (approximately three days office/site based).

We are looking for:

• Tertiary or similar qualification in a Data and Analytics, Software Engineering and/or Technology discipline.
• 4+ years of experience in a commercial environment with at least 3 of those years in a Data and Analytics role.
• Experience operating in an Analyst function (or role) – For example Business Analyst, Insights Analyst, Commercial Analyst.
• Knowledge of the Energy Industry (Retail and/or Generation) would be advantageous.
• Strong Data Modelling experience and foundational understanding (3NF, Data-Vault, Dimensional).
• Strength in the SQL and T-SQL with experience or exposure in Python or DBT being advantageous.

Mercury offers (full benefits are listed on our Career Page):

• Additional 5 days leave per annum (MyDays)
• $400 one off tax-free payment towards setting up your home office
• A diverse workplace where your unique abilities and talents will be recognised and encouraged
• Annual salary reviews with excellent parental leave policy, with the option to purchase additional leave
• The opportunities, career paths and facilities associated with working for one of New Zealand’s largest multi-utility providers
• Flexible working policy – The autonomy and trust to work flexibly from our purpose-built premises and from home, recognising the value of this flexibility in the modern world
• Discounted health insurance and free life and income insurance
• Excellent well-being programme including up to $100 annual check ups and confidential assistance programme
• Gender affirmation leave and supportive bereavement leave to be taken when you lose anyone close to you, including your pet

Mercury is a learning organisation that is committed to providing you with opportunities to grow and develop that will benefit you now and in the future. Part of your role includes building your skillset and mindset through a variety of ways. We believe this creates an energised, innovative and agile work environment where you will feel valued.

At Mercury, we believe that having a team of individuals with different backgrounds, experience and capability working together makes us stronger and better as an organisation. We know that some candidates may only apply for a role if they meet all of the criteria. If you want to join our team, we encourage you to apply for any role that matches your skills, capabilities and interests, even if you aren’t sure if you meet all of the criteria.

Please click ‘apply’ to submit your application. If you require accessibility or assistance support from us during the application and selection process, please reach out to recruitment@mercury.co.nz. Please do not apply via this email address.

A full position description is available below. Applications close Monday, 11th November at 5:00pm. Please note that Mercury retains the right to bring a particularly strong candidate through to interview more quickly.