Lead Platform Engineer

Time Type: Full time

Worker Type: Employee
- Drive strategic delivery excellence
- Lead high-performing teams
- Shape the future of transformation at QBE

**The**opportunity**:

- As Head of Delivery at QBE, you’ll step into a newly created role with the freedom to shape how we deliver change across our NZPAC business.
- This is your opportunity to make a real impact — not just on projects, but on people, capability, and the future of delivery at QBE.
- L ead a high-performing team, influence strategic direction, and work across exciting transformation programs — all while embedding best practices and building a delivery culture that lasts.
- Enjoy a role where your leadership will be valued, your ideas will shape the future, and your work will leave a lasting impact

**Your new role**:
Reporting to the GM of Technology & Delivery in NZ you will have a dotted line to the GM of GM, Strategy and Operational Governance in Australia, giving you both NZ and Global exposure. In this role you will:

- Lead and manage a team of Business Analysts, Scrum Masters and Project Managers.
- Oversee the NZPAC Release Train and ensure timely, high-quality delivery of transformation initiatives.
- Own and evolve the NZPAC Delivery Framework, aligning it with AUSPAC standards and governance.
- Chair the NZPAC Steering Committee and provide regular reporting on transformation progress.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to identify opportunities, risks, remove delivery roadblocks, and ensure business outcomes are achieved.
- Manage vendor relationships, including contract negotiation and performance monitoring.
- Lead and d rive continuous improvement in delivery practices, resource planning, and capability uplift.
- Role model QBE’s values and foster a high-performance, inclusive, and engaged team culture.
- Happy to talk flexible working.

Please note: The recruitment process includes a phone screen with our Talent Acquisition team, two interviews (face-to-face or via Teams), and background checks.

**About you**:
You’re a strategic and people-focused leader who thrives in a fast-moving environment where adaptability is key, and can demonstrate the following:

- You know how flex and respond quickly to market shifts, always keeping the bigger picture in mind and positioning the business for success.
- A proven track record of leading large-scale transformation programs and complex, multi-stream portfolios.
- You’ve built and led high-performing teams, chaired steering committees, and embedded governance structures that drive accountability and transparency.
- C onfident communicator who inspires trust and brings clarity to complexity.
- You understand business needs, empower your team to deliver smart solutions, and give stakeholders confidence in where you’re heading.
- While you value technical expertise, your strength lies in enabling others to shine — creating the conditions for delivery excellence and long-term capability uplift.

**About**QBE**:
We can never really predict what’s around the corner, b ut at QBE we’re asking the right questions to enable a more resilient future - helping those around us build strength and embrace change to their advantage.

We’re an international insurer that’s building momentum towards realising our vision of becoming the most consistent and innovative risk partner.

And our people will be at the centre of our success. We’re proud to work together, and encourage each other enable resilience for our customers, our environment, our economies and our communities.

With more than more than 1 3 ,000 people working across 27 countries, we’re big enough to make a real impact, but small enough to provide a friendly workplace, where people are down-to-earth, passionate and kind.

We believe this is our moment - what if it was yours too?

Your career at QBE — l et’s make it happen

**Benefits**

We offer a range of benefits to help provide holistic support for your work life, whatever your circumstances. As a QBE employee you will have access to and benefit from:

- ‘Hybrid Working’ - a mix of working from home and in the office to enhance your work/life balance
- Our ‘Thriving at our Best’ wellbeing program, including free holistic wellbeing coaching, nutritional, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice
- 1 8 weeks’ gender-equal flexible leave for all new parents, including paid super
- The ability to maximise retirement savings through voluntary super contributions and company matching
- Income protection insurance & reimbursed Death and Total Permanent Disability insurance premiums
- Discounts on insurance products, car hire, hotels, goods and services including benefits through our various sports and arts sponsorship partners

**Re**wards &**Recogni**tion**

We value our employee’s experience with us and are proud to have been recognised for the following awards:

- 2021 LinkedIn Top Employer & HRD Employer of Choice
- 2020 Best Workplace Diversity & Inclusion and Excel