Auckland Technical Strategist — AI‑Driven Architect

Propellerhead Limited; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Competitive salary

Employee Share Purchase Scheme

Job summary

Propellerhead is seeking an experienced Technical Strategist to lead the design of resilient software systems and guide AI-assisted delivery pipelines. The role collaborates with Product Strategists to shape technical specifications and platform direction for client products, while aligning client platforms with Propellerhead's technical strategy.

You will bring an architectural mindset, hands-on engineering background and comfort with AI-enabled prototyping to rapidly validate ideas, champion

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience with the development of multi-tier and distributed applications.
• Agentic-first: very comfortable using AI to rapidly prototype, shape solutions, and direct an AI-assisted delivery pipeline across requirements, testing and code generation.
• A confident, credible communicator and presenter in front of senior client stakeholders.
• Our current technologies include React user interfaces, with services written in C#, so previous experience with both is essential. However we also have Typescript, Java, Go and Rust services, so you will need to show confidence in working with a variety of programming languages.
• Strong communication skills must be demonstrable, with tangible examples of your skills to bridge technical solutions with business needs and present these concepts to a variety of internal and customer stakeholders.
• Hands-on experience with designing solutions on Azure is essential, including active participation in building CI/CD pipelines and instrumenting for operations, is required.
• Experience with streaming and messaging platforms, such as Kafka or NATS, is highly desirable.
• Proven experience in leading the design of complex software applications, preferably for corporate enterprise, where solutions comprise existing services alongside custom development.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. You will represent Propellerhead in front of stakeholders, so a professional, confident presence and the ability to communicate and influence with clarity are essential.
• We are particularly looking for technical leaders with experience or demonstrable interest in any of the following: digital identity, verifiable credentials, open banking, AI agent authorization, edge or device-based software deployment.

Responsibilities

• Authoring, reviewing and communicating solution architecture and specifications in collaboration with the Development teams and our core Engineering team.
• Championing the technical strategy of Propellerhead as our key business differentiator, and aligning design and implementation of the solutions in your portfolio in line with that technical vision.
• Building trusted relationships with key client decision-makers. You will be responsible for ensuring our teams understand technical requirements and for clearly explaining our solution design to client technologists.
• You will be the go-to technical person for our client’s solutions, including facilitating any technical pre-requisites for delivery or addressing improvements from operational feedback.
• Developing strategies to ensure quality measures such as speed-to-value, security, reliability, maintainability, performance and functional fit for purpose.
• Specifically, you will be facilitating the evolution of our code base from C# to Rust and the ecosystem of tools, practices and services that implies, with AI central to how we handle requirements, testing and code generation.

Skills

AI-driven prototyping

Architectural design

React

C#

Typescript

Java

Go

Rust

Azure

CI/CD

Kafka

NATS

Communication

Tools

Kafka

NATS

Azure DevOps

Job description

Propellerhead is seeking an experienced Technical Strategist to lead the design of resilient software systems and guide AI-assisted delivery pipelines. The role collaborates with Product Strategists to shape technical specifications and platform direction for client products, while aligning client platforms with Propellerhead's technical strategy.

You will bring an architectural mindset, hands-on engineering background and comfort with AI-enabled prototyping to rapidly validate ideas, champion