Engineering Practice Lead — Elevate Quality & AI

BNZ; Auckland; Hybride; NZD 180 000 - 240 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Flexible working

Generous leave

Wellbeing support

Résumé du poste

BNZ is seeking an Engineering Practice Lead to shape and govern engineering standards, patterns, and governance across BNZ Technology. You will uplift quality and productivity by guiding how we engineer software at scale, including responsible use of AI-assisted tools.

You will lead enablement, coaching, and career progression, defining reference practices and partnering with engineering leaders to drive value for BNZ customers.

Qualifications

• Strong technical credibility across modern software engineering practices, including coding standards, software design, quality engineering and SDLC disciplines.
• Experience defining or evolving engineering standards or role frameworks in a large, complex or regulated environment.
• A pragmatic, adoption led mindset with the ability to see patterns across teams, knowing when to standardise and when to provide flexibility.
• Proven ability to influence behaviour and support change without relying on formal authority.
• A strong coaching orientation and the ability to build trusted relationships with engineers and engineering leaders.

Responsabilités

• Define and evolve engineering practice standards across coding, software design, testing and the SDLC, ensuring they are clear, practical and adoptable.
• Create and maintain reference practices, patterns and guidance that provide teams with a consistent foundation for how we engineer at BNZ.
• Champion quality engineering practices such as test automation, quality gates and CI/CD quality controls, helping teams build quality in earlier in delivery.
• Act as the custodian of the engineer role, clarifying expectations across engineering levels and specialisations.
• Partner with people leaders to support clear engineering career progression paths that are grounded in real engineering practice.
• Coach and support engineering leaders and teams to uplift practice maturity through hands-on enablement and targeted interventions.
• Measure and report on engineering practice health and adoption across Technology, using evidence to guide where improvement effort delivers the most value.
• Connect engineering practice to governance and assurance outcomes, reducing systemic risk through consistent, well understood expectations.
• Partner with Engineering Product, Architecture and Security teams to ensure standards are reflected in tooling, delivery processes and control frameworks.
• Work closely with Engineering and AI product teams to champion their roadmaps and help steer them towards the highest value opportunities for engineers.
• Guide the responsible adoption of AI-assisted engineering tools, turning emerging practices into practical guidance for teams.

Connaissances

Coding standards

Software design

Quality engineering

SDLC

Adoption leadership

Coaching

Systems thinking

Outils

AI tooling

Description du poste

BNZ is seeking an Engineering Practice Lead to shape and govern engineering standards, patterns, and governance across BNZ Technology. You will uplift quality and productivity by guiding how we engineer software at scale, including responsible use of AI-assisted tools.

You will lead enablement, coaching, and career progression, defining reference practices and partnering with engineering leaders to drive value for BNZ customers.