Principal Systems Engineer - Enterprise Platform Lead

Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency

Wellington

On-site

NZD 120,000 - 160,000

Full time

44 hours ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Five weeks leave

Income Protection

Critical Illness Insurance

Professional development

Collaborative culture

Job summary

Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer to provide technical leadership across enterprise platforms, shaping secure, scalable, and reliable solutions for NZTA's digital services. You’ll operate across cloud and on-prem environments, influence technical direction, and mentor the engineering team.

Working with Platform Leads, Product Owners and delivery teams, you will guide technical decision-making, contribute to technology roadmaps, support service integrity, and

Qualifications

Proven experience in senior technical leadership roles.
Strong infrastructure, systems engineering, and cloud expertise.
Excellent stakeholder engagement and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

Lead the design and delivery of enterprise technology solutions.
Drive platform reliability across cloud and on-prem environments.
Provide leadership during complex incidents and critical outages.
Mentor engineers and strengthen technical capability.

Skills

Senior technical leadership

Cloud technologies

Agile / DevOps

Stakeholder engagement

Mentoring engineers

Job description

Working with Platform Leads, Product Owners and delivery teams, you will guide technical decision-making, contribute to technology roadmaps, support service integrity, and

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