Senior Integration Engineer

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is the country's largest employer, delivering universal public healthcare to 5 million New Zealanders.

We provide essential hospital, specialist, and community health services across 80+ locations — from large urban centres to rural towns and remote communities. Our goal is to improve health outcomes for all New Zealanders by delivering equitable, accessible and innovative care.

About the Role

The Senior Integration Engineer is a pivotal technical leader responsible for designing, delivering, and supporting high-quality integration solutions across a complex and rapidly evolving enterprise environment. Operating at a senior level of technical expertise, this role leads the end-to-end development of modern, reusable integration services and APIs, while providing guidance, coaching, and thought leadership to uplift capability across engineering teams. Working closely with architects, product teams, and operational stakeholders, the Senior Integration Engineer ensures integration solutions are robust, secure, scalable, and aligned to strategic objectives. Operating within a critical 24 / 7 services landscape that supports communities across New Zealand, this role plays a key part in enabling Te Whatu Ora's mission by building resilient, future-focused digital capability. The position drives technical excellence, fosters a culture of quality, automation, and continuous improvement, and contributes directly to the delivery of high-quality software that underpins the health system's long-term sustainability and performance.

About the Team

The Senior Integration Engineer joins a highly collaborative and forward-focused Integration Engineering team that operates at the heart of Te Whatu Ora's digital ecosystem. The team partners closely with architects, developers, product owners, operational specialists, and stakeholders across Data and Digital to deliver integration solutions that support critical health services nationwide. Working within a complex 24 / 7 technology environment, the team is committed to building scalable, secure, and modern integration capabilities that enable seamless connectivity across essential systems. With a shared focus on quality, automation, reusability, and continuous improvement, the team fosters a culture of innovation, knowledge sharing, and collective problem-solving, ensuring the digital foundations of New Zealand's health system remain resilient, responsive, and future-ready.

About you

You are an experienced integration engineer who thrives in complex, fast-paced environments and brings a deep understanding of modern integration practices, technologies, and patterns. With a solid background in designing, developing, and supporting high-quality integration solutions, you combine strong technical expertise with excellent problem-solving skills and a collaborative mindset. You communicate clearly, build strong relationships, and are comfortable influencing and guiding others to deliver robust, scalable, and secure outcomes. You embrace continuous improvement, demonstrate sound judgement in ambiguous situations, and are committed to delivering solutions that support equitable, culturally safe, and future-focused health services for all communities in Aotearoa.

• 5 to 7 years' experience in integration engineering, delivering complex solutions using REST, SOAP, messaging, and event-driven patterns.
• Skilled with integration and cloud platforms (e.g., MuleSoft, Apache Camel, Azure / AWS), plus CI / CD, DevOps, Git, and automated testing.
• Strong troubleshooting and analysis ability, translating business needs into high-quality, scalable integration outcomes.
• Understanding of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Pae Ora, with a commitment to equity and culturally safe practice.

Working for Health New Zealand

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is ‘the weaving of wellness'. We're dedicated to ensuring excellent healthcare for the people of Aotearoa / New Zealand. The Equity Work Programme at Health NZ focuses on helping everyone in the health system think about equity when they do their work. It also promotes the cultural change needed for the whole system to reach equity in health outcomes.

Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Health New Zealand are committed to being good employers and honouring our equal employment opportunity obligations.

Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion

How to Apply

To view the position description and / or apply for the role please click “apply now.” All applications must be submitted through our online careers' portal before 11 : 59pm on Thursday 4th of December. If you have any questions about the role, please contact Roshni George at .

Whilst Health New Zealand is undergoing change, affected employees will be given preference and priority for this position.

Job details

Job Reference :

Job Reference : HNZ /

Location :

New Zealand - All Locations - Work from where you are

Job type :

Job type : Permanent Full time

Expertise :

Non-clinical - Information Technology - Information Technology

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