Small and medium sized business telecommunications specialists focused on West Auckland. We offer you and your business a face to face relationship focused on understanding your business needs and…
Small and medium sized business telecommunications specialists focused on West Auckland. We offer you and your business a face to face relationship focused on understanding your business needs and…
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General information
Location
Auckland
Expertise
Consulting, Data Analytics
Job Level
Experienced, Management
Employment Type
Permanent full-time
Close Date
10-Apr-2026
Ref #
63776
Description & Requirements
Spark NZ
As New Zealand's largest telecommunications and digital services company, Spark's purpose is to help all of New Zealand win big in a digital world. We provide mobile, broadband, and digital services to millions of New Zealanders and thousands of New Zealand businesses.
We operate in an exciting and constantly evolving industry, where the pace of change brings new and unique challenges every day, so we operate using Agile ways of working to allow us to meet the fast-changing needs of our customers. Agile replaces the traditional hierarchical organisational structure to produce a transparent, collaborative environment with highly productive teams who are empowered to deliver better outcomes for our customers, communities, and all of New Zealand.
About Us:
At Qrious, we transform today to redefine tomorrow. As part of Spark, New Zealand’s largest digital transformation partner, we help organisations across Aotearoa unlock the power of data and AI to navigate change and shape their future.
We offer a fulfilling and balanced career, where you’ll work with some of New Zealand’s leading organisations in an innovative, collaborative environment.
About the Role
We’re on the lookout for a passionate and skilled AI Senior Consultant to join our growing Data & AI team at Qrious.
As an AI Senior Consultant, you will:
Work with customers and internal teams to shape, design, and deliver practical AI solutions that create measurable business value.
Combine strong consulting skills with hands-on technical delivery, supporting presales activities, solution design, and project execution across the full AI lifecycle.
Key responsibilities
Your experience
You bring strong practical experience across AI cloud platforms and modern data and AI architectures, with the ability to apply that experience in real customer environments.
You are effective at engaging with customers, understanding their needs, and translating business problems into clear technical approaches and outcomes.
You enjoy working hands-on with delivery teams to design, build, test, and operationalise AI solutions.
You build credibility quickly through strong communication, sound judgement, and a collaborative consulting style.
You work well across multidisciplinary teams, bringing together sales, advisory, and technical stakeholders to deliver successful outcomes.
Qualifications and Skills
Strong experience designing and implementing AI and data solutions on leading cloud platforms, including data engineering, AI/ML pipelines, and scalable architectures.
Proven practical experience with AI technologies, including Generative AI systems, ML frameworks, model deployment, and operationalisation.
Experience contributing to the architecture, design, and implementation of production-grade AI systems and solutions.
Ability to engage confidently with senior stakeholders, translating complex technical concepts into clear business outcomes.
Strong client-facing communication, consulting, and relationship-building skills.
A track record of contributing to successful client engagements and delivering impactful outcomes.
'Soft' Skills
Passion for delighting customers
WHY CHOOSE US:
Diversity and Inclusion: Te Kanorau me te Whakawhāiti mai
At Spark, we are constantly looking for ways to build a more inclusive culture. Our vision is for diversity and inclusion to be "how things are done at Spark", embedded into our day-to-day activities, standards, and business practices. We want you to feel totally comfortable bringing your whole self to work regardless of your gender, ethnicity, orientation, age, or ability.
Sustainability: Toitū
Sustainability is a key focus for us. We are dedicated to supporting Aotearoa New Zealand's recovery and economic transformation. The principle of equity is at the very heart of our approach, and we remain committed to working in partnership to make a positive contribution to digital equity in line with our focus on Diversity and Inclusion.
Benefits: Awhina
Our people matter and we make sure we look after them. As a valued employee of Spark, we've got our people covered with a range of leading benefits including:
Due to the nature and urgency of this role, we are only considering applicants that are based in New Zealand with permanent residency, citizenship, or a valid work visa (with at least 18 months remaining).
Client Delivery and Solution Design: Work with customers, advisory teams, and delivery teams to define requirements, shape solution approaches, and deliver high-quality AI and data outcomes aligned to business needs.
Technical Pre-Sales Support: Support sales and advisory engagements by contributing to workshops, demonstrations, prototypes, estimates, and proposals that show technical feasibility and business value.
Technical Expertise: Apply hands-on experience with leading AI cloud platforms such as Snowflake AI Cloud, Databricks, and Microsoft Azure Foundry to design and implement robust, scalable solutions tailored to customer requirements.
Trusted Technical Advice: Provide practical guidance to customers and internal stakeholders on AI use cases, architecture options, delivery approaches, and adoption considerations.
Customer Engagement: Engage confidently with customer stakeholders across business and technical teams, helping them understand how AI solutions can address real organisational challenges and opportunities.
Collaboration Across Teams: Work closely with sales, advisory, engineering, and project delivery teams to co-create solutions and ensure successful execution.
Design and Innovation: Bring strong design thinking and problem-solving skills to shape innovative, future-ready solutions across a range of industries and use cases.
Stakeholder Management: Build and maintain strong working relationships with customer stakeholders, contributing to trust, delivery confidence, and long-term account growth.
Problem-Solving: Take a proactive, solutions-oriented approach to resolving delivery and technical challenges with persistence, sound judgement, and pragmatism.
Commercial Awareness: Contribute to commercially sound delivery by balancing quality, scope, effort, and client value throughout engagements.
Internal Capability Uplift: Contribute to the growth of Spark | Qrious AI capability by sharing knowledge, improving delivery assets, and supporting the adoption of AI into consulting and delivery practices.
You are motivated by customer success and take pride in delivering high-quality, practical solutions that create tangible value.
You are comfortable with ambiguity, take initiative, and continuously look for ways to improve delivery, capability, and client impact.
Self-empowered and motivated to make it happen
Pragmatic and consultative approach
Collaborative team player
Ability to hold difficult conversations constructively, providing clear, positive, and empathetic feedback
High integrity and professional background
Ability to guide others through the solution delivery process
Deliver on what you promise with hands-on involvement
Confident and capable decision-maker with strong prioritisation skills
Innovative problem solver
Agile mindset - ability to pivot, be nimble, and adapt quickly
Proven effective communication, relationship building, and stakeholder management skills
Displays sound commercial awareness
Lead by example - a role model for the Spark | Qrious values
Wellbeing - Comprehensive medical insurance, life and income protection. Access to wellbeing coaches, EAP and in-house Specialist Clinical support through our leading Mahi Tahi Wellness programme.
Hybrid ways of working - for most teams at Spark this means being in the office for 4 days a week, and 1 day being flexible.
Leave - in addition to four weeks annual leave, we offer purchased leave, enhanced parental leave support and study leave.
Spark Credit – we provide permanent employees with $120 monthly Spark credit to use on any of our amazing products.
Spark Share scheme – periodically we offer the opportunity to buy into our share scheme.
Career development – access to an internal marketplace that connects employees with experiential, on the job learning across Spark.
