Engineering Practice Leader — Standards & Enablement

JobSpace; Auckland; On-site; NZD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Generous leave

Wellbeing support

Job summary

BNZ is seeking an Engineering Practice Lead to set direction for engineering practices across the bank. This role focuses on defining and championing best practice, ensuring teams have the standards, frameworks and guidance needed to build high-quality software at scale.

The role operates through influence and enablement rather than authority, partnering with leaders to support clear career progression and uplift practice maturity across Technology.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve engineering practice standards across coding, software design and the SDLC.
• Create and maintain reference practices, patterns and guidance that provide teams with a consistent foundation for how we engineer at BNZ.
• 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.

Job description

BNZ is seeking an Engineering Practice Lead to set direction for engineering practices across the bank. This role focuses on defining and championing best practice, ensuring teams have the standards, frameworks and guidance needed to build high-quality software at scale.

The role operates through influence and enablement rather than authority, partnering with leaders to support clear career progression and uplift practice maturity across Technology.