System Owner

Discover a career with purpose at MBIE

Discover a career with purpose at MBIE
- Manage the end-to-end system lifecycle, working across and representing the views of the Digital, Data & Insights (DDI)
- Work in a complex and dynamic ICT environment, with an exciting, fast-paced pipeline of work
- Permanent, full-time position based in Wellington
- Salary range: $129,612 - $157,667 p.a. plus kiwisaver

**Tēnei tūranga - About the Role**:
The System Owner is responsible for all technical governance of the assigned systems, including: its underlying platforms, strategy, operation, integrations, maintenance, and enhancement; working closely with the Business Product Owner role who works in the business, and plays a vital role in the success and services delivery through product delivery lifecycle.

This is a key role, managing the end-to-end system lifecycle, working across - and representing the views of - the Digital, Data & Insights (DDI), and alignment to the customer.

Why work for us?

At the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE), we are a future-focused organisation working to grow a healthy, high-performing New Zealand economy. Our diverse range of functions and international reach means real career pathways within MBIE. We underpin this with development and training, and a culture that enables our people to work to their natural best.

Ngā pukenga me ngā wheako e hiahiatia ana - Skills and Experience Required:

- Proven experience of end-to-end system operation, maintenance, enhancement, and support across the system lifecycle
- Ability to understand and articulate technical complexity in a form easily understood by technical and non-technical audiences
- Proven ability to make decisions of authority to preserve or restore system operation, and support enhancement/maintenance activities, provide technical backlog prioritization calls, including asking the right questions and make decisions quickly where required balancing risk, cost and impact considerations
- Ability to interpret strategic and business plans to ensure that future opportunities are aligned
- Proven experience working with senior leadership teams and providing high level strategic and operational advice
- Technical design thinking skills and understanding of business process
- The ability to deliver successful outcomes in a demanding, dynamic environment
- A solution-oriented and collaborative focus on outcomes
- Experience in process standardisation, process improvement, change analysis and feasibility studies
- A demonstrated ability to work effectively and artfully distil complexity in a rapidly changing, and sometimes conflicted, environment
- Strong communication skills with the ability to understand, discuss, influence and resolve complex issues with different levels of stakeholders

Pre-requisites
- The ability to gain and maintain a national security clearance as required
- A tertiary qualification, relevant IT certification or equivalent experience
- You must have the legal right to live and work in New Zealand

**Ētahi kōrero mō MBIE - About MBIE**:
MBIE's goal is to create a resilient and high-performing economy that delivers real and ongoing quality of life for all New Zealanders.

We do this by working with others to create an environment that supports businesses to be more productive and internationally competitive, enables all New Zealanders to participate in the economy through improved job opportunities and by working to ensure quality housing is more affordable.

People are at the heart of our mahi, our way of working is guided by our values which shape our behaviours.
- Mahi Tahi - Better Together
- Māia - Bold and brave
- Pae Kahurangi - Build our Future
- Pono Me Te Tika - Own It

Our aspirations are echoed in our Māori identity - Hīkina Whakatutuki - which broadly means ‘lifting to make successful'.

MBIE recognises the partnership founded under Te Tiriti o Waitangi between Māori and the Crown and is committed to giving effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi. We will do this through enduring, meaningful and effective partnerships with iwi, Māori, other Māori groups/organisations and the Crown, as this is critical to enable economic and social development, both for Māori and for wider Aotearoa New Zealand. We are committed to continuing to partner with iwi in order to find new sustainable solutions to address long standing systemic and cross-cutting issues facing Māori and wider Aotearoa New Zealand and we are also committed to identifying opportunities for iwi to lead and creating an enabling environment for iwi to leverage these opportunities.

E mōhio ana a Hīkina Whakatutuki i puea ake te kōtuinga I waenganui i a ngāi Māori me te Karauna i Te Tiriti o Waitangi, ā, kei te whai ia ki te whakaū ake i Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Mā te whai kiko o ngā kōtuinga ahungaroa o ngāi wi, o ngāi Māori, me ētahi atu rōpū Māori ki te Karauna, katutuki tēnei. He āhuatanga nui tēnei e āhe