About this role
<p style="margin:6.0pt 0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#212121"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><strong><u>Technical Lead Platform Engineering</u></strong></span></p> <p style="margin:6.0pt 0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#212121"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><strong><u> </u></strong></span></p> <ul style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 6.0pt 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Lead the technical design and delivery of enterprise integration solutions.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 6.0pt 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Drive integration platform modernisation initiatives and continuous improvement. </span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 6.0pt 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Support the adoption of platform engineering disciplines that enable scalable and reliable service delivery. </span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 6.0pt 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Provide guidance and mentorship to engineers across the Platform Engineering practice.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 6.0pt 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Partner with architecture, delivery and product teams to align engineering solutions with business outcomes</span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:6.0pt 0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#212121"> </p> <p style="background-color:white;margin:0.0cm;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#212121"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-weight:normal">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.</span></strong></span></p> <p style="background-color:white;margin:0.0cm;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#212121"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-weight:normal"> </span></strong></span></p> <p style="background-color:white;margin:0.0cm;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#212121"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-weight:normal"> </span></strong></span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">He angitūtanga: The opportunity</span></strong></span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif"> </span></strong></span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">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.</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">You'll be a principal engineer or technical lead who enjoys solving complex enterprise challenges and influencing technical direction through expertise and collaboration.</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">You could expect to work on:</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"> </p> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Provide technical leadership for the MuleSoft platform</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Design scalable API-led connectivity solutions</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Establish integration standards and patterns</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Support API governance and lifecycle management</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Drive integration platform modernization initiatives</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Partner with architecture teams and delivery squads</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Champion DevOps engineering practices</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Lead Infrastructure as Code implementation across Azure environments</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Drive platform automation initiatives</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Improve platforms security, observability and resilience</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Establish reusable cloud platform patterns</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Guide engineering teams on DevOps best practices</span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">He kōrero mōu: About you</span></strong></span></p> <p style="background-color:white;margin:0.0cm;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#212121"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">This role requires significant Platform Engineering experience. You will have experience in similar roles within large complex organisation </span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif"> </span></strong></span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-weight:normal">We will be looking for specific experience with the key role requirements:</span></strong></span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-weight:normal"> </span></strong></span></p> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">10+ years' experience designing and delivering enterprise integration solutions.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Demonstrated technical leadership experience within large and complex environments.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Strong experience with MuleSoft and API-led connectivity architectures.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Expertise in REST APIs, asynchronous messaging and event-driven integration patterns.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Experience establishing integration standards, reusable frameworks and governance practices.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to influence technical decisions at all levels.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">A passion for mentoring engineers and fostering engineering excellence.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Champion Infrastructure as Code, automation and modern DevOps practices.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Ideally, you'll also have experience with:</span> <ul style="list-style-type:circle;margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Azure API Management.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">SAP Integration Suite.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Confluent Kafka and event streaming platforms.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Kubernetes and container platforms.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Observability tooling such as Splunk or Azure Monitor. </span></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><br>We still encourage you to apply if you have some but not all these requirements.</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif"> </span></strong></span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif"> </span></strong></span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Ngā āhuatanga kei a mātou: What we offer</span></strong></span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a name="_Hlk505079113"></a><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">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.</span></span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">We offer a range of employee benefits and proudly support flexible working options where possible. </span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><br></span><strong><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Help us make a difference to Tāmaki Makaurau.</span></strong><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#212121"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><strong> </strong></span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#212121"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><strong> </strong></span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#212121"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><strong>Me Tono Ināianei!</strong><strong>: Apply Now!</strong></span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Applications close: 7 August</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">If you have any support or access requirements, please advise us when submitting your application so we can assist you.</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">This role is a Band I </span></p>