Senior Solutions Engineer - Infrastructure & Data Leadership

Mott MacDonald; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working options

Employee-owned business

Career development

Job summary

Mott MacDonald is seeking a Principal Solutions Engineer to provide technical leadership across projects in the Asia Pacific region, with a primary focus on New Zealand. You will lead the design and delivery of digital solutions that transform infrastructure design, build and operation, working with clients and project teams to deliver practical, value-driven outcomes.

The role blends hands-on delivery with client engagement and project leadership, shaping reusable patterns and standards to

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience across the software delivery lifecycle.
• Strong Python capability.
• Experience leading projects or technical delivery work.
• Confidence planning and managing resources across competing priorities.
• Strong client engagement and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of digital solutions across client and internal projects.
• Work with clients and project teams to understand requirements, define problems and shape practical solution approaches.
• Translate business and project needs into clear technical designs, delivery plans and implementation tasks.
• Prepare and review delivery estimates, including scope, effort, assumptions, risks and delivery approach.
• Develop and configure solutions on Moata using Python, TypeScript and related cloud-based tools.
• Provide technical leadership across the software delivery lifecycle, including design, development, testing, deployment and support.
• Review solution quality, manage technical risk and make sure solutions are maintainable, secure and fit for purpose.
• Support and mentor data, analytics and software delivery team members.
• Coordinate delivery input across geographies, disciplines and project teams.
• Contribute to reusable patterns, standards and ways of working that improve delivery quality and efficiency.

Skills

Python

Technical leadership

Software delivery lifecycle

Client engagement

Tools

Moata platform

TypeScript

Job description

Mott MacDonald is seeking a Principal Solutions Engineer to provide technical leadership across projects in the Asia Pacific region, with a primary focus on New Zealand. You will lead the design and delivery of digital solutions that transform infrastructure design, build and operation, working with clients and project teams to deliver practical, value-driven outcomes.

The role blends hands-on delivery with client engagement and project leadership, shaping reusable patterns and standards to