Salesforce Technical Lead

Ko wai mātou – About us     

Kia ora.  We’re Foodies.  You know New World, PAK’nSAVE and Four Square right? That’s us!   

With 300+ stores and over 27,000 Foodies across Te Ika-a-Maui, our North Island Co-op has the privilege of helping New Zealanders get more out of life.  Locally owned, we reflect the communities we serve, and we celebrate our people - our taonga, every day for being uniquely them.    

 Our Support Centre is 1,000+ people strong, which includes 300+ IT employees, who all play a vital role in ensuring the cogs of our Co-op stay turning and our systems stay ‘byte’-sized and ‘bug’-free.”.    

Te Tūranga – About the role     

At Foodstuffs North Island (FSNI), we’re looking for a Technical Lead to provide technical leadership within our Salesforce squad, helping deliver robust solutions that support our stores, teams, and customers across New Zealand. You'll be actively involved in designing, building, supporting, and improving the platforms your squad owns.  Ready to make an impact? Let’s build something amazing together!  

What you’ll do  

• Lead technical design and engineering decisions across Salesforce platforms and integrations 

• Stay hands-on with development, automation, CI/CD, DevSecOps, monitoring, and operational excellence 

• Mentor and grow team members through design reviews, collaboration, and technical coaching 

• Drive platform stability, resilience, security, and scalability 

• Lead technical investigations, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives 

Ngā painga - What we offer     

We’re committed to providing awesome experiences for our people, including offering a range of benefits  

• Free carparking, we’ve got over 1,000 carparks including 36 EV plugs  

• Onsite café with subsidised meals, mini mart, 5% discount at our retail stores  

• Flexible working options, a day off on your birthday  

• Inhouse learning and development courses, flu vaccinations, and social network groups (we call them Tribes)  

He kōrero mōu - About you       

• Strong hands-on Salesforce platform experience 

• Proven experience leading technical design and delivery within Agile teams 

• Deep understanding of integration patterns, platform architecture, and enterprise systems 

• Expertise in CI/CD, automation, testing, DevSecOps, monitoring, and release management 

• Experience supporting critical business systems in complex environments 

• Strong problem-solving, incident management, and stakeholder engagement skills 

• A passion for mentoring others and lifting technical capability across teams 

Why Join Foodies? 

Experience awesome. Achieve awesome. Be awesomely you.  

We’re proud to have a focus on Diversity & Inclusion here at Foodies and welcome courageous behaviour, encourage togetherness, inspire our people to be their best selves in our Foodies whānau.  

 We encourage you to apply with all your awesomeness and welcome your diverse background, including any disability, additional health and mental health needs, and/or neurodiversity.  

If you're a Salesforce Technical leader who enjoys balancing strategy with hands-on engineering and wants to make a meaningful impact, we'd love to hear from you. 

 If you require accessibility support to ensure you can fairly access our recruitment process, please reach out to  [email protected].  Accessibility support could include, interview location, sign language interpreter, assistive technology.  

 Don’t ‘cart’ around – apply now!