Digital Domain Change Lead

New Zealand Transport Agency; Wellington; On-site; NZD 134,000 - 163,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working arrangements

Five weeks annual leave

Life, income protection & critical Ill

Career development opportunities

Job summary

New Zealand Transport Agency is seeking an experienced Digital Domain Change Lead to provide strategic change leadership across Te Aukaha | Digital, translating delivery excellence goals into practical ways of working. You will work with senior leaders to connect activity, resolve cross-boundary issues and embed the new operating model across Security and Digital.

The role emphasizes enduring leadership within Te Aukaha | Digital, with a focus on building capability and sustainability beyond

Qualifications

• Extensive change leadership experience in complex organisations.
• Experience with operating model change and process improvement.
• Strategic, whole-system thinking with senior stakeholder credibility.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic change leadership across Te Aukaha | Digital.
• Translate the operating model into sustainable ways of working.
• Support leaders to resolve cross-boundary issues and strengthen connections.

Skills

Change leadership

Strategic thinking

Stakeholder engagement

Agile/Lean approaches

Digital environment familiarity

Job description

Lead how people, teams and ways of working come together across Digital Partner with senior Digital leaders to embed and strengthen ways of working and build lasting capability. Enduring leadership role with an immediate focus on Digital’s evolving operating model and Security transition. Permanent, full-time position. Wellington preferred (but Auckland may be considered).

The opportunity

We’re looking for an experienced Digital Domain Change Lead to provide strategic change leadership across Te Aukaha | Digital helping our people and leaders translate our delivery excellence goal into practical, sustainable ways of working. This is a senior, influential role working alongside Digital leadership teams to connect activity across Digital, identify where priorities, people and ways of working are connected or colliding, and help leaders resolve issues that cut across organisational boundaries. You’ll provide strategic advice, challenge and support to leaders, build change capability, and help translate the operating model into clear and sustainable ways of working. Your initial focus will be the transition following the restructure of Security. You will work across Security, Digital and the wider organisation to clarify how the new structure will operate, including roles, decision‑making, working relationships, processes and capability needs. More broadly, you’ll play an important role in integrating and embedding Digital’s operating model, looking across the delivery system to identify gaps and risks, conflicting priorities and dependencies while strengthening connections across Te Aukaha and the organisation which will improve how people work together. Importantly, this isn’t a traditional project‑based change management role. It’s an enduring leadership role embedded in Te Aukaha | Digital. You’ll stay close to what is happening in the business, and move between strategic advice and hands‑on problem solving to make sure new structures and ways of working are working in practice.

You’ll find out more about the role here: Position Description. Appointment salary is between $133,632 to $163,328 commensurate with skills and experience.

About you

You’ll be a seasoned change professional who operates comfortably at a strategic level and can build credibility quickly with senior leaders. You’ll bring executive presence, sound judgement and the confidence to challenge constructively, while building trusted relationships. Credible experience within a Digital environment is essential. You’ll understand the context Digital leaders and teams operate within and be able to confidently navigate conversations about operating models, ways of working and the complexity of a large organisation. Ideally, you’ll bring: extensive change leadership experience within complex organisations in a digital context, with a strong track record of delivering and embedding sustainable change experience supporting operating model change, organisational restructures, resets of ways of working or significant process improvement strong strategic and whole‑of‑system thinking, with the ability to see connections and impacts across multiple areas credibility and confidence working closely with senior leaders and leadership teams strong influencing, facilitation, coaching and stakeholder engagement capability experience strengthening organisational and leader‑led change capability the ability to work comfortably with ambiguity while picking up complex problems and working out what is getting in the way sound analysis, judgement, political acumen and risk management capability experience with Agile and/or Change Lean approaches. You will demonstrate knowledge of, or a willingness to gain an understanding of Te Ao Māori and promote tikanga and Te Reo Māori. You will also have knowledge of, or a willingness to gain an appreciation of Te Tiriti o Waitangi as it applies in the public sector.

About us

Te Aukaha | Digital strengthens NZTA through supporting our people and delivering future‑focused solutions. We enable digital change, provide quality data, information and security services, and create flexible and collaborative workspaces. The Digital Performance team strengthens Te Aukaha | Digital by providing operational and strategic leadership, ensuring our digital foundation is well managed and our stakeholders are seamlessly connected.

What you will get in return

This is an opportunity to step into an influential Digital change leadership role where you can work closely with senior leaders, shape how change is approached across a complex environment, and help build capability that lasts beyond individual initiatives.

• A competitive salary and benefits package
• Flexible working arrangements (role dependent)
• Five weeks annual leave
• Free Life, Income Protection and Critical Illness Insurances for permanent employees
• Career development opportunities across a large and complex organisation

Find out more about our benefits here.

Applications close: 23 November 2026

To be considered for this position you must have a legal right to live and work in New Zealand.

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We encourage early applications as we may withdraw the advertising at any time.

About us

At Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency, it all starts with our people. The organisation's performance and success depends on the people who choose to make this a great place to work and make a difference for Aotearoa. Waka Kotahi has a strong future focus, understanding that new technologies and changing customer expectations mean the transport system we know today will not be the one we deliver in ten years time. Waka Kotahi is an equal opportunity employer (EOE). We recognise the importance of diversity and inclusion and are committed to providing a working environment that embraces these values.