Technical Lead Platform Engineering

Auckland Council; New Zealand; Hybrid; NZD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working options

Employee benefits

Job summary

Auckland Council is seeking an experienced Technical Lead to drive the evolution of our enterprise integration capability within the Platform Engineering practice. This hands-on leadership role combines deep engineering expertise with a focus on scalable, secure, modern integration solutions.

Working with architects, product teams and delivery squads, you will establish best practices, uplift engineering capability and ensure our integration platforms remain reliable and future‑proof.

Qualifications

• 10+ years' experience designing and delivering enterprise integration solutions.
• Proven technical leadership in large, complex environments.
• Deep MuleSoft and API-led connectivity expertise.
• Strong experience with REST APIs and event-driven integration patterns.
• Experience establishing integration standards, reusable frameworks and governance.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and mentoring abilities.
• Champion Infrastructure as Code, automation and modern DevOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead and design enterprise integration solutions for scale and reliability.
• Drive integration platform modernization and platform engineering best practices.
• Provide guidance to engineers and partner with architecture, product and delivery teams.
• Lead governance, standards and lifecycle management for APIs and integrations.
• Oversee CI/CD pipelines and IaC implementations across Azure environments.
• Ensure security, observability and resilience of integration platforms.
• Mentor engineers and foster engineering excellence across teams.

Skills

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Stakeholder engagement

DevOps mindset

Platform engineering

Tools

MuleSoft

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Azure API Management

SAP Integration Suite

Confluent Kafka

Kubernetes

Splunk

Azure Monitor

Job description

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• 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.

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
• Lead Infrastructure as Code implementation across Azure environments
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines
• Improve platforms security, observability and resilience
• Guide engineering teams on DevOps best practices

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.

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.

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