Security Architecture Leader: Delivery & Operations

Iag Insurance; New Zealand; On-site; NZD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Boosted KiwiSaver with 4.5% employer

life insurance as standard

20 days annual leave + 5 days MyLeave

Up to 50% off personal insurance

Annual $500 health & wellbeing payment

14 Weeks paid parental leave

Access to LinkedIn Learning, IAGAcadem

Job summary

IAG is seeking a Security Architecture Operations & Delivery Manager in Auckland to lead a team of Security Architects and shape cyber security strategy across the organisation. This permanent, full-time role reports to senior technology leaders and focuses on workforce planning, governance, and delivering secure architecture outcomes.

You will partner with delivery leads and stakeholders, drive continuous improvement, and build capability for current and future priorities, while promoting

Qualifications

• Experience leading technical, cyber security, technology, or professional services teams in complex organisational environments.
• Strong people leadership skills with a passion for developing capability, fostering engagement, and building high-performing teams.
• Experience leading workforce strategy, demand and capacity planning, and operational management within a complex technology, cyber security, or professional services environment.
• Demonstrated ability to build strategic partnerships with senior stakeholders, influencing decisions and aligning workforce and capability plans to business priorities.
• Understanding of cyber security, technology, architecture, or other highly regulated environments.
• Strong communication, problem-solving, and decision-making skills with the ability to balance competing priorities.
• Experience driving governance, risk management, continuous improvement, and service performance outcomes.
• Experience developing long-term capability, workforce, or succession plans that support future organisational and delivery objectives.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of Security Architects, creating an inclusive, high-performing environment that supports growth, engagement, and long-term capability.
• Oversee the operational performance of the Security Architecture function, ensuring effective planning, prioritisation, workload management, governance forums, reporting, and service delivery.
• Partner with delivery leads and senior stakeholders to develop strategic workforce plans, ensuring the Security Architecture function has the capability and capacity required to support current and future business priorities.
• Establish strategic partnerships across technology and business teams, acting as a trusted advisor to help stakeholders embed security architecture thinking into planning, investment, and delivery decisions.
• Drive governance, risk management, and continuous improvement initiatives that strengthen operational excellence and service effectiveness.
• Champion culture, mentoring, and community-building programs that support collaboration, professional development, and knowledge sharing.
• Contribute to technology and portfolio planning by providing strategic insights on workforce capability, emerging cyber security priorities, operating model considerations, and future demand.
• Drive the long-term evolution of the Security Architecture operating model, identifying opportunities to strengthen capability, improve stakeholder experience, and enhance the value delivered to the organisation.

Skills

Leadership

Cyber security

People management

Workforce strategy

Stakeholder mgmt

Regulated environments

Communication

Governance & risk

Continuous improvement

Job description

IAG is seeking a Security Architecture Operations & Delivery Manager in Auckland to lead a team of Security Architects and shape cyber security strategy across the organisation. This permanent, full-time role reports to senior technology leaders and focuses on workforce planning, governance, and delivering secure architecture outcomes.

You will partner with delivery leads and stakeholders, drive continuous improvement, and build capability for current and future priorities, while promoting