Manager IT Infrastructure and Platforms

Opportunity to lead and grow motivated and successful teams, further establishing Agile ways of working to elevate the influence and engagement of our IT across Toitū Te Whenua
- Be a leader of leaders for our Infrastructure and Platforms teams and key vendors
- Guide strategy and implementation across our multi cloud (both public and private) infrastructure platforms and desktop fleet.

Kōrero mō te tūranga - About the role
The Manager IT Infrastructure and Platforms reports to the Chief Information Officer and leads a small team of leaders who support Toitū Te Whenua staff to manage, keep safe, and use our Information Technology assets.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone to shape our Infrastructure and Platforms functions for future delivery, while providing direction and leadership across a high performing and engaged group of technical squads.
Be an advocate for our technology functions and practices to ensure that we meet our business needs and legislative requirements. Through your leadership you will provide direction to support overall organisational strategy. Ideally you will have experience in delivering in an Agile IT operating environment, to enable continuous delivery.
You will need to have exceptional communication and stakeholder relationships skills to enable you to manage, promote and influence across the business to ensure that we provide our technology to a consistently high standard.
This position works closely with the Manager IT Operations Assurance to ensure our IT services are delivering to our customer's needs, and squads are meeting targets.

He pūkenga tou - Skills & Experience
- Experience in IT Leadership operating in central or local New Zealand government and setting IT up for continued future success
- Strong leadership skills so you can continue to foster a cohesive and engaged team of leaders who strive to perform to the highest standards and provide exceptional service and advice to stakeholders across LINZ
- Possess strong technical capability and significant experience in Technical IT operating environments
- Ideally experience of operating in an Agile IT organisation to use the methodology to continuously deliver
- Strong influencing and stakeholder management skills working across all levels of a government organisation
- The ability to identify and prioritise issues and help guide technical squads to develop and deliver fit-for-purpose solutions
- Excellent oral and written communications skills

The annual salary range for this position is $134,989 - 182,633 and we offer flexible working conditions.

Ngā mea e tukuna ana e tātau
- What we offer our employees
- Interesting work which impacts Aotearoa as we care for whenua, moana and arawai
- Eye & ear care reimbursements
- Annual Flu Vaccinations
- Reduced Health Insurance Premiums
- Diverse groups and networks
- A minimum of four weeks and three days annual leave

As an organisation Toitū Te Whenua embraces diversity, encourages work life balance and we have a flexible approach to the way we work which means you will quickly feel connected and valued. Toitū Te Whenua is one of the most engaged organisations in the public sector and people always say what a great place Toitū Te Whenua is to work.

Te Tākinatanga - Our Story
At Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand, our key role is to ensure New Zealanders have accurate information about where people and places are, that people have confidence in their property rights and that Crown property is well managed for future generations.
From the best way to develop farmland, build a new suburb, manage a high-country farm or navigate on land or at sea, our work and location information help people make better decisions and create economic, social, environmental and cultural value for New Zealand.

Tono mai - How to Apply

Toitū Te Whenua is currently undertaking a change programme, known as Organising Ourselves, which is focused on strengthening our connections, our agility and the way we engage and work with our customers and partners. Note that we will be making changes to our ways of working and how we think about and describe our roles as part of this programme.