Principal Engineer, Environments – Flexible Work & Wellbeing

Bank of New Zealand; Wellington; On-site; NZD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing

Flexible working

Generous leave

Job summary

Bank of New Zealand is seeking a Principal Engineer for a Wellington-based fixed-term engagement through September 2028. You will apply analysis, design, programming, and testing skills to deliver software systems while guiding projects and teams in alignment with enterprise architecture.

Ideal candidates have senior engineering experience in banking, collaboration across architecture and security teams, and a track record of delivering robust, scalable solutions with modern tooling and patterns.

Qualifications

• Experience analysing project and software requirements within complex banking environments.
• Proven ability to guide junior engineers and provide technical leadership.
• Strong emphasis on delivering secure, high-quality software solutions.

Responsibilities

• Conduct analysis of project and software requirements as part of work packages.
• Provide supervision and guidance to designated junior Software Engineers.
• Assist in preparing project proposals and identify design areas with patent potential.
• Undertake integration planning and software build definition tasks.
• Act as technology authority for short- or long-term planning and policy recommendations.

Skills

AWS

Spring Boot

Configuration Management

CI/CD deployment patterns

Design patterns

Security and compliance

Architecture collaboration

Leadership & mentoring

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

OpenShift

Dynatrace

Splunk

Kafka

MQ

Job description

Bank of New Zealand is seeking a Principal Engineer for a Wellington-based fixed-term engagement through September 2028. You will apply analysis, design, programming, and testing skills to deliver software systems while guiding projects and teams in alignment with enterprise architecture.

Ideal candidates have senior engineering experience in banking, collaboration across architecture and security teams, and a track record of delivering robust, scalable solutions with modern tooling and patterns.