AI‑Driven Platform Architect & Technical Strategy Lead

JobSpace; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fortnightly knowledge sharing sessions

Employee Share Purchase Scheme

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Propellerhead is seeking a Technical Strategist in Auckland to lead the design of complex systems and align client platforms with our technical strategy. You will guide architecture choices, collaborate with Product Strategists, and steer an AI‑assisted delivery pipeline.

This senior, client‑facing role requires strong communication with senior stakeholders, hands‑on engineering background, experience with C#, React, Azure, CI/CD, and exposure to AI and verifiable credentials.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience developing multi‑tier and distributed applications.
• Agentic‑first: using AI to prototype, shape solutions and direct an AI‑assisted pipeline.
• Confident communicator and presenter to senior client stakeholders.
• Experience with React UIs and services in C#, plus exposure to TypeScript, Java, Go and Rust.
• Strong ability to bridge technical solutions with business needs.
• Hands‑on Azure design, CI/CD pipelines and operations instrumentation.
• Desirable: experience with Kafka or NATS and enterprise software delivery.
• Interest or experience in digital identity, verifiable credentials, open banking, AI agent authorization, edge/software deployment.

Responsibilities

• Authoring, reviewing and communicating solution architecture with development teams.
• Championing Propellerhead's technical strategy across the portfolio.
• Building trusted relationships with client decision‑makers and explaining designs.
• Serving as the go‑to technical expert for client solutions and prerequisites.
• Developing strategies to ensure quality: speed‑to‑value, security, reliability, performance.
• Facilitating evolution of code base from C# to Rust and AI‑driven tooling.

Skills

8+ years

AI prototyping

Architectural leadership

C# & React

Azure CI/CD

Kafka / NATS

Tools

React

C#

TypeScript

Go

Rust

Azure

Job description

Propellerhead is seeking a Technical Strategist in Auckland to lead the design of complex systems and align client platforms with our technical strategy. You will guide architecture choices, collaborate with Product Strategists, and steer an AI‑assisted delivery pipeline.

This senior, client‑facing role requires strong communication with senior stakeholders, hands‑on engineering background, experience with C#, React, Azure, CI/CD, and exposure to AI and verifiable credentials.