Management Level
Director
Job Description & Summary
Kia ora,
Innovate. Build. Reinvent. Make your tech skills count at PwC New Zealand.
At PwC, our purpose is clear: to build trust in society and solve important problems. This is a place to keep growing. You’ll learn from the best, take on meaningful challenges, and make a lasting impact for our clients, our communities, and Aotearoa.
Ngā kōrero mo tēnei tūranga / About the role
We’re hiring a technical Solution Designer to join our Pōneke / Wellington team with strong Ping / ForgeRock experience to design and help deliver modern CIAM and authorization solutions for a large-scale financial services environment.
Your day-to-day may include:
- Designing and helping deliver end-to-end CIAM + authorization solutions using Ping / ForgeRock
- Taking a hands-on role in the design and development of authentication journeys, including login, MFA, step-up, recovery, registration, and profile flows
- Supporting API design, build, integration, and testing across digital and identity services
- Defining authentication and authorization patterns for web, mobile, APIs, and partner channels
- Working on policy-based authorization and access control design using PingAuthorize
- Producing technical solution designs, sequence flows, integration patterns, and implementation-ready artefacts
- Contributing to build, test, deployment, and release activities across environments
- Working closely with architecture, engineering, security, fraud, and platform teams to deliver secure and scalable outcomes
- Supporting CI/CD pipeline integration, deployment automation, and release readiness for identity services
This role is ideal for someone from a banking, insurance, wealth, or superannuation / member platform background who can work across both solution design and hands-on delivery.
Ngā pūkenga ka kawea mai e koe, ka whakawhanakehia rānei i tēnei tūranga / Skills you will bring or develop in this role
- Strong experience in Solution Design / IAM / CIAM, with the ability to work hands-on where needed
- Deep experience with Ping / ForgeRock, ideally including:
- PingOne Advanced Identity Cloud (AIC)
- PingAuthorize
- Strong hands-on experience designing and developing:
- authentication journeys
- MFA and adaptive access flows
- SSO and federation patterns
- API security and integration services
- Experience with API build and testing, including working with REST services, JSON, and integration patterns
- Strong knowledge of:
- OAuth2
- OpenID Connect
- SAML
- JWT
- token and session design
- Experience with policy-based authorization, API/microservices access control, and fine-grained access models
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes, and environment promotion, ideally in cloud or modern engineering environments
- Financial services experience highly preferred, especially across banking, insurance, wealth, or super/member platforms
- Excellent stakeholder engagement, technical documentation, and delivery collaboration skills
- If you don’t meet every requirement, we still want to hear from you - your skills and potential may be a great fit.
Ngā āhuatanga hirahira o te mahi ki PwC / Highlights of working at PwC NZ
- Rewards - Discretionary bonus opportunities; generous referral bonuses; retail discounts & deals
- Growth - Global network; leadership development; A.I. tools and training; formal learning pathways
- Wellbeing - $250 annual wellbeing allowance; Life & income protection; Sonder/EAP/Headspace; 15 days’ paid sick leave; group-rate health insurance (eligibility applies)
- Reputation - PwC is known for shaping tomorrow. Join us and you’ll accelerate your career while helping clients and communities solve their most important problems.
- Flexibility - Flexible working; supportive coaching culture
- Time off - Two paid recognition days off provided each year during our annual summer shutdown period; purchase up to two extra weeks’ annual leave
- Whānau & community - Paid parental leave for all parents with flexible options and financial planning support; inclusive networks; paid volunteering leave
Mō te aha tāu e tatari ana? / What are you waiting for?
Hit Apply now. To learn how you can grow and shine in your career at PwC, visit our careers site at https://www.pwc.co.nz/careers.html.
Grow here. Go further.
Ngā whakautu ki o pātai / Your questions answered:
Motuhake / Independence: Maintaining independence is fundamental to demonstrating that PwC has not been influenced by any relationships or situations that undermine our objectivity. This role requires an independence review process.
Tono tika mai / Please apply directly: We’re not currently partnering with recruitment agencies for this role. If you’d like to be considered, please apply directly - we’d love to hear from you.
Nau mai ngā tono wawe / We encourage early applications: This role may close before the listed date if we identify a suitable candidate.
Atamai hangahanga / A.I. usage: Please note that secure, A.I.-enabled tools may support parts of our recruitment process, but all applications are reviewed and decisions made by our people.
Travel Requirements
Up to 20%
Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?
Yes
Job Posting End Date
June 24, 2026
