Principal Engineer

3 weeks ago


Auckland, New Zealand Southern Cross Health Society Full time

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Engineering - Software (Information & Communication Technology)
Full time
We're a not-for-profit organisation on a mission to transform ourselves and empower New Zealanders to live their healthiest lives.
With almost a million members in our care, we are New Zealand's leading health insurer.
We have an unstoppable focus, delivering outstanding experiences to our members in their time of need. This is an exciting time to be part of our journey and in return for your extraordinary talent, we'll provide a high performing values-based team environment where people are at our heart.
About the role
As a Principal Engineer - Product Engineering, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the technical landscape and capabilities of the platform team and wider organisation. You will lead in identifying, and championing technologies and approaches, ensuring they are leveraged to drive innovation, quality, and efficiency.
This role demands a balance between strategic foresight, solution design and hands-on expertise, with a focus on driving operational excellence and building collaborative technical teams.
You will support high performance and technical excellence across a team of engineers to deliver end-to-end technology capabilities that are utilised by Value Stream and Centre of Excellence (CoE) teams to create greater member value and customer outcomes.
About You:
This role requires someone with experience leading designing, requirements gathering, prioritisation, hands-on implementation, testing, operating and supporting applications and products in a mix vendor and in-house applications across multiple environments is essential.

Experienced in driving product visions, prioritizing effectively, and delivering value just in time.
Skilled in fostering technical team growth with a mindset of continuous improvement.
Expertise in Product Engineering, Agile principles, and flexible, adaptive working approaches.
Proven ability to collaborate across internal teams and vendors to align on objectives.
Strong experience mentoring engineers, promoting collaboration, and driving innovation.
Proficient in integrating SaaS/PaaS/off-the-shelf applications and designing complex architectures.
Expertise in microservices, event-driven systems, micro-frontend architectures, and UI libraries.
Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab) and hybrid cloud/on-premises environments.
Exceptional analytical and troubleshooting skills for large-scale technical challenges.
Strong communicator, adept at explaining technical concepts to diverse audiences.

Join a proud diverse team, that's always there, always real, always true. If you thrive in a caring, honest and open culture, we think you'll love working with us.
We know that it is our team's culture and wellbeing that will drive us forward. That's why we prioritise not only professional development opportunities but opportunities to thrive personally, too. We offer exceptional work/life balance and our employees are encouraged to – and rewarded for – living well.

Southern Cross employee benefits include:
five days of wellbeing leave per year
health insurance for you and your immediate whanau
life insurance cover and discounts on pet and travel insurance
extra parental leave benefits and financial wellbeing support
participate in our wellbeing programme.

That's not all. Need more time to volunteer or support your whanau? You'll have the opportunity to purchase flexi leave. Each year, you will also get to take part in a volunteer day, to contribute to a cause or community with your team.
Our commitment to LGBTQIA+ and minority communities is reflected in our culture, and we run a regular Diversity and Inclusion Forum to help ensure this continues to flourish.
If you share our commitment and passion, then apply now
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