Technical Lead Platform Engineering

Auckland Council; Auckland; On-site; NZD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Auckland Council invites an experienced Technical Lead to drive the evolution of our enterprise integration capability. This hands-on leadership role blends deep engineering expertise with a passion for scalable, secure, modern integration solutions across large, complex systems.

Working in the Platform Engineering practice, you will mentor engineers, shape technical direction, and collaborate with architecture, product and delivery teams to align solutions with business outcomes.

Qualifications

• 10+ years designing and delivering enterprise integration solutions.
• Demonstrated technical leadership within large and complex environments.
• Strong MuleSoft and API-led connectivity experience.
• Expertise in REST APIs, asynchronous messaging and event-driven integration patterns.
• Experience establishing integration standards, reusable frameworks and governance practices.
• Strong stakeholder engagement with ability to influence technical decisions at all levels.
• Passion for mentoring engineers and fostering engineering excellence.
• Champion Infrastructure as Code, automation and modern DevOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for the MuleSoft platform and API-led integration.
• Design scalable API-led connectivity solutions.
• Establish integration standards and reusable patterns.
• Support API governance and lifecycle management.
• Drive integration platform modernization initiatives.
• Partner with architecture teams and delivery squads.
• Champion DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.
• Lead Infrastructure as Code across Azure environments.
• Improve platform security, observability and resilience.
• Establish reusable cloud platform patterns.
• Guide engineering teams on DevOps best practices.

Skills

Technical leadership

MuleSoft

API-led connectivity

REST APIs

Asynchronous messaging

Event-driven patterns

DevOps practices

Azure environments

CI/CD pipelines

Platform modernization

Mentoring engineers

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Azure API Management

SAP Integration Suite

Confluent Kafka

Kubernetes

Splunk

Azure Monitor

Job description

• Lead the technical design and delivery of enterprise integration solutions.
• Drive integration platform modernisation initiatives and continuous improvement.
• Support the adoption of platform engineering disciplines that enable scalable and reliable service delivery.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to engineers across the Platform Engineering practice.
• Partner with architecture, delivery and product teams to align engineering solutions with business outcomes

Shape the future of Platform Engineering at Auckland Council. Auckland Council is seeking an experienced Technical Lead to drive the evolution of our enterprise integration capability. This is a hands‑on technical leadership role for someone who combines deep engineering expertise with a passion for building scalable, secure and modern integration solutions.

He angitūtanga: The opportunity

Working within our Platform Engineering practice, you'll partner closely with architects, product teams and delivery squads to establish best practices, uplift engineering capability and ensure our integration platforms remain reliable, secure and fit for the future.

You’ll be a principal engineer or technical lead who enjoys solving complex enterprise challenges and influencing technical direction through expertise and collaboration.

You could expect to work on:

• Provide technical leadership for the MuleSoft platform
• Design scalable API-led connectivity solutions
• Establish integration standards and patterns
• Support API governance and lifecycle management
• Drive integration platform modernization initiatives
• Partner with architecture teams and delivery squads
• Champion DevOps engineering practices
• Lead Infrastructure as Code implementation across Azure environments
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines
• Drive platform automation initiatives
• Improve platforms security, observability and resilience
• Establish reusable cloud platform patterns
• Guide engineering teams on DevOps best practices

He kōrero mōu: About you

This role requires significant Platform Engineering experience. You will have experience in similar roles within large complex organisation

We will be looking for specific experience with the key role requirements:

• 10+ years' experience designing and delivering enterprise integration solutions.
• Demonstrated technical leadership experience within large and complex environments.
• Strong experience with MuleSoft and API-led connectivity architectures.
• Expertise in REST APIs, asynchronous messaging and event-driven integration patterns.
• Experience establishing integration standards, reusable frameworks and governance practices.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to influence technical decisions at all levels.
• A passion for mentoring engineers and fostering engineering excellence.
• Champion Infrastructure as Code, automation and modern DevOps practices.
• Ideally, you’ll also have experience with:
• Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions.
• Azure API Management.
• SAP Integration Suite.
• Confluent Kafka and event streaming platforms.
• Kubernetes and container platforms.
• Observability tooling such as Splunk or Azure Monitor.

Ngā āhuatanga kei a mātou: What we offer

Auckland Council is the largest local government council across Oceania, serving over 1.7 million people and contributing towards making Tāmaki Makaurau a world-class city.

We offer a range of employee benefits and proudly support flexible working options where possible.

Help us make a difference to Tāmaki Makaurau.

Applications close:18th October

If you have any support or access requirements, please advise us when submitting your application so we can assist you.

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