Lead Platform Engineer (Team Lead)

Overview

Work for a top-notch brand in the business insurance space across 26 countries with 11000 employees worldwide

Part of expansion plan; New permanent role created

Leadership; Development Team handling

Open environment and a small and well-knit team.

Drive & Lead Platform strategy and enterprise engineering standards

Flexible & hybrid (3days a week from office; Tuesdays & Thursdays anchor days)

Auckland CBD based

Salary : 170k NZD + 15% bonus (negotiable for a good fit, open to talk)

Responsibilities

Leading and managing a team of software engineers to design and develop software solutions for the organisation (approximately anywhere between 15 to 18 developers which includes Senior devs and contractors) reporting to the Head of Platform.

Establish clear accountabilities for direct reports and build a strong culture of individual accountability and performance to ensure delivery of business goals.

Provide technical direction, leadership and coaching to direct reports.

Promote excellence through the attraction, continual development, and retention of high quality workforce with the knowledge, skills, and behaviours to deliver excellent outcomes and improved customer outcomes.

Own the roadmap and backlog for platform enhancements, in collaboration with the Head of Platforms, architects, and business stakeholders.

Responsible for the reliability, performance, security, compliance and scalability of assigned core technology platforms and ensure all audit actions are managed.

Work closely with Product Owners, Solution Architects, Testing and Infrastructure teams to deliver outcomes.

Act as a key point of contact for stakeholders relying on assigned platform services.

Qualifications

Experience as a Technical Lead / Team Lead / Software Development Manager / Lead platform / Chapter Lead / Practice Lead / Engineering manager / Principal Engineer .

A Team lead who can think and bring ideas and best practices on the table along with proven examples of their capability to uplift their team members.

(non negotiable)

Tech Stack : C# .

NET & AZURE (non negotiable).

Orchestrated AZURE cloud migrations and established Azure DevOps CI / CD pipe (non negotiable)

Azure Cloud hosting experience, CICD setting up best practices, Azure DevSecOps, Improving DEPLOYMNET frequency and operational efficiency (important)

Showcasing examples for driving and leading PLATFORM STARTEGY and ENTERPRISE ENGINEERING STANDARDS.

Proven experience managing the lifecycle of enterprise platforms or applications.

Proven experience in technical decision making and stakeholder engagement

Should be based in Auckland or be able to relocate to Auckland (3days from office – Tuesdays & Thursdays mandatory).

Insurance, Banking, Financial Domain (preferred but not mandatory).

Why this role?

Benefits

You will be a part of a growing organisation.

Flexible work environment with work from home options

Competitive salary & bonus

Other perks : 5% matching super, 50% discounts of home and content insurance, Life Insurance, Trauma & Income protection, Discounted Health Insurance

Collaborative, open work culture due to which a lot of our contractors like to keep coming back

If the role sounds interesting to you, apply today!

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Pls note : A valid NZ work visa is a pre-requisite for all our positions as of now.

In case any client is willing to sponsor an outstation international candidate, we would mention that separately.

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Job Information

Job Reference : JO-

Salary : NZ$ - NZ$ per annum + 15% bonus + other benefits

Salary per : annum

Job Start Date : 22 / 09 / 2025

Job Industries : Technology

Job Locations : Auckland

Job Types : Permanent

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Pls note : A valid NZ work visa is a pre-requisite for all our positions as of now.

In case any client is willing to sponsor an outstation international candidate, we would mention that separately.

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