Principal Engineer (Environments)

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Maximum Term/Fixed Term (Fixed Term)

Here at BNZ, it's about more than just banking. We work together in an agile, energising environment to create innovative solutions though our promise "If you can imagine a better future, let's find a way."

We support wellbeing, flexible working and have a generous leave offering. No two days are the same.

The Principal Engineer (Environments) is accountable for ensuring the right environments are available at the right time, with the right data and releases, to enable successful programme delivery, testing, migration and deployment. They act as the integration point between delivery streams, testing, migration, deployment teams and technology suppliers, while governing release management and environment readiness across the programme.

This is a Wellington based fixed-term opportunity through to September 2028.

Mō te Tūranga | About the Role

We sat down with the People Leader (who you would report to)  and they told us the following about the role:

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

• Environment Strategy & Planning - Own the end-to-end environment ecosystem required by the programme, including non-production and production readiness. Define what environments are needed, when they are needed, and ensure they support delivery milestones, testing, migration, training and deployment activities.
• Release Management Leadership - Establish and govern the programme's release management capability, including release processes, roles and responsibilities, quality gates, and coordination of code and data releases across environments.
• Cross-Stream Coordination - Work across delivery streams to understand upcoming requirements, manage dependencies, align releases with programme plans, and ensure environments are available when required.
• Technology & Supplier Management - Coordinate with BNZ teams, delivery partners and platform suppliers to plan, provision, maintain and evolve environments, including new environment builds and environment migrations where required. 
• Testing, Migration & Go-Live Enablement - Partner with Testing, Migration, Readiness and Deployment leads to provide fit-for-purpose environments, support test data loads and dress rehearsals, address environment-related defects and blockers, and ensure environments meet functional and non-functional testing requirements.

What is the team culture and environment like?
This team operates in a collaborative and supportive environment where knowledge sharing, technical excellence, and continuous improvement are highly valued. Team members work closely together to solve complex problems, contribute ideas, and support each other's professional growth. There is a strong focus on quality, innovation, and delivering outcomes in line with established engineering standards.

What projects / work will the candidate be working on now and into the next year?
The successful candidate will contribute to the design, development, testing, and integration of software solutions for the CLR project.

Having worked on a similar project in a banking environment will be advantageous.

What technical skills are required for this role?

• AWS, Spring Boot, Configuration Management, Design patterns, CICD deployment patterns, Terraform, Ansible, Openshift, Dynatrace, Splunk, MQ, Kafka
• Work with other Principal Engineers, Platform Leads and developers to ensure solutions are cohesive and solve our customers problems.
• Proactively collaborate with security teams to ensure solutions adhere to organisational security policies and compliance requirements.
• Work closely with architecture teams to align strategies with overall enterprise architecture.
• Foster strong relationships with key stakeholders to advocate for and support the pillars across Engineering domain.
• Communicate technical concepts and solutions effectively to non-technical stakeholders and junior team members.
• Ability to develop software designs coding and testing according to specific work packages and project needs, in accordance with designated company standards of methodology, style and quality.
• Originating, using and promoting the creation and maintenance of company coding and design standards.
• Performing technical tasks, including unit test functions, as required, to support the internal quality and control arrangements as defined by company policy and project requirements.

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

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively within a team environment and collaborate with a range of stakeholders.
• Initiative and a proactive approach to identifying improvements and technical solutions.
• Leadership capability, including mentoring and guiding less experienced engineers.
• Commitment to maintaining high standards of quality, design, and software engineering practice.

Nau Mai ki te Pēke o Aotearoa | Come to the Bank of New Zealand

PLEASE NOTE: Advertising for this position closes Monday 31 August at 11pm.

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.”

Closing Date: 31 August 2026

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