Senior Director of Engineering at Gentrack

Gentrack; Auckland; On-site; NZD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Annual discretionary bonus

Private medical insurance

Employee assistance programme

Life assurance policy

Wellness subsidy

Enhanced parental leave

Hybrid working arrangements

Office environment

Job summary

Gentrack is seeking a Senior Director of Engineering to provide executive leadership across its Southern Hemisphere hubs, including New Zealand and Melbourne. The role emphasizes AI-first engineering, people development, and high autonomy with strategic alignment to the global technology vision.

You will mentor engineering leaders, drive AI-augmented workflows, and partner with Product, Delivery, and Architecture to optimize the Product Development Lifecycle while maintaining strong regional

Qualifications

• 12 to 15 years of technology experience in enterprise software.
• At least 5+ years in senior executive engineering leadership (Director/Senior Director).
• Proven ability to lead AI-enabled engineering and developer enablement.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management across timezones.

Responsibilities

• Provide executive leadership across NZ and Melbourne hubs.
• Maintain alignment with global CTO and architecture.
• Champion AI-augmented development workflows.
• Mentor engineering managers and technical leaders.
• Drive engineering velocity and productivity through modern tooling.

Skills

Leadership

AI in software

Developer enablement

Cross-regional coordination

Job description

Apply for Senior Director of Engineering at Gentrack in Auckland City, N, NZ. This Full time on site position offers great opportunities for career growth.

Description Overview of the Role: We are seeking an inspiring, collaborative, and people-first Senior Director of Engineering to provide executive leadership across our major Southern Hemisphere hubs in New Zealand and Melbourne. Reporting directly to the Chief Technology Officer, you will serve as a high-visibility leadership voice proxy in the region, bridging the timezone gap with healthy autonomy and strategic alignment. This role requires a leader who thrives in a "high-autonomy, high-alignment" framework with a mandate to amplify the global technology vision, ensuring we operate as a unified, cohesive engineering ecosystem rather than a fragmented, two-headed operation. Crucially, you will lead our Southern engineering community into an AI-first future, empowering and upskilling the next generation of AI-powered engineering teams. While you must possess the technical depth to hold natural credibility with elite engineering talent, your primary passion lies in championing people, pioneering AI-augmented development workflows, and building an environment where high-performing teams thrive.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Regional Leadership & CTO Proxy
  • Serve as the executive technology voice and presence in the Southern Hemisphere, ensuring teams feel connected, inspired, and aligned with global goals.
  • Act as a strategic partner to the CTO, operating with a high degree of autonomy to run regional operations while maintaining lockstep global alignment.
  • Maintain an exceptionally close, collaborative relationship with Northern Hemisphere leadership to ensure seamless cross-border technical community alignment.
  • Effectively synthesise and broadcast global business context down to delivery teams, translating high-level strategy into local operational focus.
• Empowering AI-Powered Engineering Teams & Culture
  • Champion a vibrant, high-performance culture rooted in psychological safety, continuous learning, accountability, and the Gentrack core values.
  • Lead the cultural and technical shift toward AI-assisted software engineering, empowering developers to leverage generative AI and automation safely and effectively.
  • Actively mentor, coach, and grow engineering managers, directors, and technical leaders across the New Zealand and Melbourne hubs.
  • Drive initiatives focused on engineer engagement, modern upskilling, and making Gentrack the premier destination for regional tech talent.
• Delivery Optimisation, Productivity & Tooling
  • Evaluate, refine, and champion modern engineering processes and operational frameworks to significantly improve engineering velocity and throughput.
  • Partner with Product, Delivery, and Architecture organisations to optimise the Product Development Lifecycle (PDLC), eliminating delivery bottlenecks.
  • Integrate AI-augmented developer tooling into our daily workflows, actively measuring productivity improvements and removing administrative friction from the delivery pipeline.
  • Infuse a product-minded execution model within engineering teams, shifting focus away from bespoke delivery toward reusable, scalable capabilities.
• Technical Credibility & Execution Alignment
  • Maintain a strong, pragmatic understanding of modern cloud architectures, distributed systems, and SaaS delivery paradigms to maintain deep architectural credibility.
  • Partner closely with the Chief Architect and Principal Engineers to implement automated architectural guardrails that keep AI-generated code secure, robust, and in check across our codebases.
  • Support regional go-to-market (GTM) and customer success teams as a senior technical leader in high-profile local client engagements and strategic partner discussions.

What We’re Looking For

12 to 15 years of technology experience, with at least 5+ years operating in a senior executive engineering leadership capacity (Director / Senior Director) within an enterprise SaaS or cloud-native software business.

• An awesome, inspiring, and infectious leader who genuinely loves building world‑class team dynamics, modern processes, and cutting‑edge engineering cultures.
• A low‑ego, highly collaborative executive who aims to amplify collective leadership rather than carve out an isolated silo or introduce a competing agenda.
• A forward-thinking technology leader with a passion for developer enablement and practical experience fostering AI-powered engineering workflows.
• A technical mind who values pragmatic delivery, business impact, and commercial clarity over theoretical perfection.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with a proven ability to maintain strong, highly operational relationships asynchronously across global timezones.

What We Can Offer You

• Competitive salary
• Annual discretionary bonus
• Private medical insurance
• Employee assistant programme
• Life assurance policy
• One-off wellness subsidy
• Enhanced parental leave
• Hybrid working arrangements
• Great office environment (including a tennis court)
• A wide variety of learning and development programmes and opportunities

About Gentrack

Who We Are Gentrack partners with leading energy and water utilities around the world to deliver innovative technology that helps them navigate an increasingly complex and rapidly changing industry. Working with some of the world's largest utilities and challenger brands, we're helping our customers build a more sustainable future by driving innovation, delivering exceptional customer experiences, harnessing the power of AI, and creating lasting business value.

Our Values and Culture Gentrackers are one team of smart thinkers and dedicated doers, working drive efficiency in two of the planet’s most essential resources: energy and water. As AI reshapes the way our industry works, we're embedding it into how we innovate, collaborate and solve problems, empowering our people to work smarter and create even greater value for our customers. Everything we do is guided by three core values: respect for the planet, respect for our customers, and respect for each other. We're a diverse, global team that collaborates across borders, shares knowledge, embraces new ideas, and continually raises the bar. It's an exciting time to join Gentrack, with a clear growth strategy, world-class leadership, and a culture that combines technology, AI and talented people to shape the future of utilities.

To discover more about Gentrack and how we’re transforming energy and water utilities with innovative solutions, please visit our website and Eurostaffs.