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Technical Lead

Location: Auckland
Discipline: Engineering
Job Type: Permanent
Date Posted: 16/06/2022
Reference: BH-328
Upper Echelon has an opportunity to play a key role in delivering the best technical design solutions as the role of Tech Lead.

The role

Working with stakeholders such as the product owners, engineers and business owners, you’ll play a defining role in designing and building the best tech solutions for the client and their customers alike.

Understand the business goals and requirements and any technical challenges they are facing. Review current architecture and technology to recommend improvements and capability for the future while reducing technical debt.

Support and develop engineers as a mentor, not a manager. 
 
The person 

We want to hear from you if you have the following:

  • Awareness and understanding of agile architecture frameworks, documentation, processes, concepts, modelling and best practices.
  • Experince in a technical leadership role
  • A strong software engineering background 
  • Business acumen and great soft skills
  • Continuous integration, continuous deployment (CI/CD)
  • Modern application architecture skills
  • Understand networks, databases
  • Cloud experience (Client is Multi Cloud - mostly Azure)

You will be successful in this role if you have a strong, hands on, technical backgrounud and experience of leading people.

Your passion and drive to learn is more important to us than what tech stack you have worked on. 

Your soft skills and the ability to communicate clearly and engage with stakeholders is paramounnt.

The Company 

The client is a major New Zealand Bank, big enough, but more agile than the Aussies. Progressive, with a high performing team and embracing new ways of working. Based in Taranaki, this role can be fully remote and based anywhere in New Zealand

You can apply knowing our client already has infrastructure and flexible work practice in place. Interviews will be done via video conference, and we are well set up for remote on-boarding. For the successful candidate our client has everything in place to make sure you feel a part of this great team from day one. You’ll be meeting with the team in person just as soon as that is practical. They are a tight knit, friendly team.

How to apply

Applications close on the 14th July or before if a successful candidate is chosen. Apply now by hitting the APPLY button or contact Kizzy Sullivan on 021 090 13848 or Richard Alexander on 021 222 2082 with any questions.

Please only apply for this role if you are already in New Zealand and have the legal right to work.