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Platform Engineering Lead
Listed 8 days Ago
TSB
Financial Services
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
