Software Engineer (AI First Delivery)

Vista Group Auckland, New Zealand
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As an intermediate level Software Engineer, focusing on AI first delivery, you’ll help build the technical foundations for the next phase of Vista’s AI programme. Working as part of the data engineering team, you’ll design and implement the pipelines, services, integrations, and platform capabilities needed to connect data across Vista’s systems and support practical AI-enabled workflows. You’ll use AI-first engineering practices to build secure, scalable, and reusable production systems, with a strong focus on clear problem definition, effective AI orchestration, and reliable delivery. This role is expected to be approximately 20% analysis and design, and 80% implementation. Help us build the secure and scalable data platform that will support Vista’s AI capabilities, improve operational decision-making, and create better outcomes for our customers and teams.

What you'll do  • Design, build, and operate reliable data ingestion pipelines across APIs, events, databases, files, and third-party platforms • Build services, integrations, and reusable tooling using Python, TypeScript, and the patterns established by Vista’s data engineering team • Use AI-first engineering practices to orchestrate the design, development, testing, documentation, and operation of production systems • Create secure and observable interfaces that allow copilots, agents, automation, and decision-support workflows to consume trusted data • Help build unified views of Vista’s customer and business operations • Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, auditability, failure handling, and data quality controls across services and pipelines • Apply strong security, privacy, access control, data ownership, and responsible AI practices throughout the solution lifecycle • Manage multiple workstreams in parallel while remaining self-directed and accountable for delivery • Help improve Vista’s data engineering architecture, development practices, and reusable platform patterns