Principal Engineer: Cloud, AI & Platform Leadership

New Zealand Transport Agency; Wellington; Presencial; NZD 150.000 - 190.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Flexible working arrangements

Five weeks annual leave

Income Protection and Critical Illness

Professional development

Collaborative and inclusive culture

Descripción de la vacante

NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) seeks a Principal Engineer to lead the Engineering Chapter, guiding technical direction across Azure-based platforms and enterprise systems. You will shape design decisions, mentor engineers, and drive modern engineering practices, safeguarding reliability and scalability for public transport digital services.

You will influence platform roadmaps, collaborate with Product Owners and delivery teams, and champion a culture of continuous learning and innovation across

Formación

• Proven track record of leading engineering teams at scale.
• Deep expertise in cloud architectures, security and reliability.
• Strong understanding of SRE practices and platform engineering.
• Experience with Azure public cloud and modernDevOps tooling.
• Willingness to mentor and grow engineering capability across teams.

Responsabilidades

• Provide hands-on technical leadership across complex, high impact engineering challenges.
• Drive platform reliability across cloud environments.
• Significantly influence internal developer platforms and developer experience.
• Lead evolution of AI augmented engineering and scalable delivery of systems.
• Champion Agile, DevOps and continuous improvement practices.
• Influence technology roadmaps and engineering direction.
• Mentor engineers and strengthen technical capability.
• Collaborate across teams to deliver secure, scalable services.

Conocimientos

Senior technical leadership

Cloud expertise

Site Reliability Engineering

Platform engineering

Agile DevOps

Herramientas

Azure cloud

AI platforms

Descripción del empleo

NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) seeks a Principal Engineer to lead the Engineering Chapter, guiding technical direction across Azure-based platforms and enterprise systems. You will shape design decisions, mentor engineers, and drive modern engineering practices, safeguarding reliability and scalability for public transport digital services.

You will influence platform roadmaps, collaborate with Product Owners and delivery teams, and champion a culture of continuous learning and innovation across