Platform Engineering Lead
Platform Engineering Lead
Permanent Full Time
Taranaki/Wellington/Auckland locations considered
About the role
We’re looking for a Platform Engineering Lead to take end to end ownership of a critical set of platforms and services that underpin how we deliver great experiences for our customers.
This is a hands-on leadership role where you’ll balance technical direction, operational excellence, and people leadership. You’ll guide a team to build, run and continuously improve secure, resilient and high performing platforms, ensuring they enable innovation, reduce risk, and scale with customer needs.
You’ll play a key role in connecting engineering, architecture, and business teams, helping translate strategy into practical delivery.
What you’ll be doing
- Provide technical ownership across a portfolio of platforms/services
- Lead the design, implementation, and ongoing support of reliable and scalable solutions
- Ensure platforms are robust, secure, and aligned to enterprise standards
- Drive reliability, availability, and performance across platforms
- Champion proactive risk management, incident response, and continuous improvement
- Embed best practices in monitoring, automation, and lifecycle management
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning while mentoring and growing a high performing team
- Provide clear, pragmatic advice on platform capabilities and trade offs
To succeed in this role, you’ll bring
- 7+ years’ experience in a Technology or Platform Lead role
- Platform operations and support
- Resilience and reliability engineering
- Continuous improvement initiatives
- 2+ years in a people leadership role, with a track record of mentoring and growing capability
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, you can influence, simplify complexity, and build trust
- A practical, problem solving mindset with a focus on outcomes, not just outputs
Why join us?
You’ll be joining a team that’s committed to making banking better for people, communities, and Aotearoa.
People First: we invest in our teams and their growth
Keeping it Simple: cutting through complexity to focus on what matters
One Team: working together to deliver the best outcomes
Innovation with integrity: improving how we operate while managing risk well
If you are ready to get stuck in as part of a collaborative team where you’re supported to be your best self…. Apply Now!
Applications close Sunday 21st June, and all applications will be reviewed as they come in
Applications for this role will take you to the advertisers site.
