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Are you passionate about driving change through highly motivated, technically skilled teams? Do you have Kafka experience and a strong understanding of enterprise integration and data movement platforms? We are looking for an experienced leader of leaders to join our Technology Platforms domain as Engineering Platform Manager – Data Movement.

Mō te Tūranga | About the Role

We sat down with our Head of Tech - Platforms, and they let us know the following about the role.

What are 5 day to day tasks the person in this role will complete?

• Set and communicate the data movement platform strategy, principles and roadmap (aligned to target state).
• Lead delivery and run the core capabilities: event streaming, integration platforms, cloud database integration and file transfer.
• Define and track outcomes (availability, resilience, security posture, performance, cost-to-serve and engineer experience).
• Lead incident/problem/change outcomes and lift operational maturity through strong service management; meeting ITIL measures, CHF and SLAs.
• Partner with Architecture, Security, Risk and engineering teams to drive adoption of standards and improve platform usability.

What projects / mahi (work) will the candidate be working on now and into the next year?

You’ll lead the next evolution of BNZ’s data movement capability—strengthening event streaming and integration platforms, improving self-service and adoption, and aligning to target-state architecture. A key focus will be modernisation and operational maturity (resilience, observability, security controls and cost optimisation) delivered through a prioritised platform roadmap.

What is the most exciting thing about this opportunity?

You’ll lead a mission-critical platform that underpins how data moves across BNZ, with the mandate to set direction, influence standards and drive tangible improvements. Your impact will show up in better reliability, safer delivery through clear integration patterns, and a simpler, faster experience for engineering teams.

What is the most challenging thing about this opportunity?

Balancing speed, resilience, security and cost in a regulated environment—while aligning multiple stakeholders and driving operational maturity. You’ll need to make pragmatic trade-offs, lead through ambiguity, and keep service reliability front and centre.

What will success look like for the candidate in this role?

Success looks like a clear platform strategy being executed through a credible roadmap, with strong stakeholder feedback and measurable improvement in availability, resilience and operational risk. You’ll lift adoption through better standards and self-service, and run the platform with disciplined service management, governance and cost optimisation.

What attributes will this person display in order to be successful in this role?

We require a strategic, product-minded leader who can turn vision into outcomes and roadmaps. You will:

• Communicate clearly and influences across Technology and the business;
• Lead calmly through incidents; and makes pragmatic, secure and scalable decisions; meeting ITIL measures, CHF and SLAs.
• Bring strong people leadership (leading leaders and technical teams)
• Bring a disciplined approach to risk, governance and vendor/value management.

What specific tech skills would be beneficial?

Strong experience with enterprise integration and data movement platforms—particularly event streaming (e.g., Kafka), integration platforms/patterns, and file transfer services—plus a good understanding of cloud data services and integration approaches.

You’ll also need strong operational practices (incident/problem/change), reliability and observability, and the ability to partner with Architecture and Security on standards, controls and secure-by-design outcomes.

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This is an exciting opportunity to join us! We're bold thinkers who are taking brave steps to create a company that people want to work for, and customers want to bank with. If you're ready to join a fun organisation where we are proud of our culture and how we are helping New Zealander's to 'Find their way', then show your interest by submitting your application - we can't wait to read it.

Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi, engari he toa takitini" - Success is not the work of an individual, but the work of many.”

Applications will be reviewed regularly across the advertising period, but we do reserve the right to close applications early.