Engineering Practice Lead

Worker Type:

Permanent

Here at BNZ, it's about more than just banking. We work together in an agile, energising environment to create innovative solutions through 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. There is the opportunity for growth, learning and career development. No two days are the same.

Ko mātou tēnei | This is Us  

Meet the Engineering Excellence team — a newly forming team within BNZ Technology with a clear purpose: to lift the quality, consistency and confidence of engineering across BNZ Technology.  We are building a team that brings together strong technical craft, pragmatic governance and a real focus on enabling others — and we have an exciting opportunity for an Engineering Practice Lead to help shape how engineering practices evolve at BNZ, including how we responsibly use emerging tools and practices such as AI-assisted engineering.  

 

Mō te Tūranga / About the role 

We sat down with the Engineering Excellence Enablement Manager (who you’ll report to), and they let us know the following about the role.  

This is an enterprise-wide engineering practice leadership role focussed on setting direction for engineering practices at BNZ.  As Engineering Practice Lead, you will be the custodian of engineering excellence across BNZ. Rather than owning delivery outcomes or technology platforms, your focus will be on defining and championing best practice, ensuring our teams have the standards, frameworks and guidance needed to build high-quality, resilient and sustainable software at scale.

You'll work closely with our Engineering and AI product teams, championing their roadmaps and helping steer investment towards the opportunities that will deliver the most value for our engineers. This includes shaping how quality is built into delivery, and how teams responsibly use AI-assisted engineering to lift quality and productivity. 

 

The role operates primarily through influence, enablement and evidence, rather than positional authority.  

We are open for consideration of applicants either Auckland or Wellington based.

 

What are some of the responsibilities in this role? 

• Define and evolve engineering practice standards across coding, software design, testing and the SDLC, ensuring they are clear, practical and adoptable. 

• Create and maintain reference practices, patterns and guidance that provide teams with a consistent foundation for how we engineer at BNZ. 

• Champion quality engineering practices such as test automation, quality gates and CI/CD quality controls, helping teams build quality in earlier in delivery. 

• Act as the custodian of the engineer role, clarifying expectations across engineering levels and specialisations. 

• Partner with people leaders to support clear engineering career progression paths that are grounded in real engineering practice. 

• Coach and support engineering leaders and teams to uplift practice maturity through hands‑on enablement and targeted interventions. 

• Measure and report on engineering practice health and adoption across Technology, using evidence to guide where improvement effort delivers the most value. 

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: 29 November 2026

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