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  • Principal Engineer

    3 days ago


    Auckland, New Zealand Stellar Recruitment Full-time NZD 180,000 - NZD 260,000 Contract

    The Role Stellar Recruitment is partnered with a well-established environmental and engineering consultancy with a strong reputation across New Zealand's water infrastructure sector. We are seeking a Principal Engineer to join the Auckland team and play a key role in leading the delivery of complex water, wastewater and stormwater projects. In this role, you...


  • Auckland, New Zealand Downer Full-time NZD 180,000 - NZD 240,000 Contract

    Join Downer as our Senior Principal Engineer and play a leading role in delivering safe, efficient, and buildable design solutions across Aotearoa and beyond! At Downer we plan, create and sustain. Downer is the leading provider of integrated services in Australia and New Zealand. Through trusted relationships and world leading insight we work closely with...

  • Principal Engineer

    4 days ago


    Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand NES Fircroft Full-time NZD 140,000 - NZD 200,000 Contract

    Principal Engineer - Relocation role to New ZealandLocation: Christchurch preferred | Auckland / WellingtonSector: Power Transmission & Distribution | HV Substations | Electrical InfrastructureOur client is an established New Zealand engineering and electrical infrastructure organization providing specialist design, engineering, construction, testing and...

  • Principal Engineer

    19 hours ago


    Westpac on Takutai Square, New Zealand Westpac Full-time

    Mō te tūranga | About the roleWe’re seeking a visionary Principal Engineer to lead the evolution of our enterprise-wide strategic platform. This is a senior technical and leadership role, responsible for shaping architecture, driving engineering excellence, and ensuring robust security across Microsoft Power Platform, Dynamics 365 (D365), and Azure with...

  • Principal Engineer

    5 days ago


    Westpac on Takutai Square, New Zealand Westpac Full-time

    Mō te tūranga | About the Role The Principal Engineer - Cards is a senior enterprise technical leader responsible for shaping technology strategy, target architecture and engineering direction across the Cards domain.The role combines deep technical expertise, strategic thinking and practical delivery experience to ensure technology decisions support...

  • Principal Engineer

    2 days ago


    Auckland, New Zealand Westpac New Zealand Limited Remote Full-time NZD 180,000 - NZD 240,000 Contract

    Principal Engineer - D365 & AI# Careers## Principal Engineer - D365 & AIApply: Westpac on Takutai Square: Full time: Posted Today: End Date: November 23, 2026 (22 days left to apply): JR106501**Mō te tūranga | About the role** We’re seeking a visionary **Principal Engineer** to lead the evolution of our enterprise-wide strategic platform. This...


  • Lyttelton, Canterbury, New Zealand Lyttelton Port Company Full-time NZD 89,000 - NZD 99,000 Contract

    When opportunity arises, we must be ready to strike before it passes.About the RoleWe’re looking for an experienced Principal Engineering Technician to join our Engineering and Projects team at Lyttelton Port Company (LPC). This is an opportunity to apply your civil engineering, surveying and technical expertise to infrastructure that keeps our port...

  • Principal Engineer

    3 days ago


    New Zealand Westpac New Zealand Full-time

    Mō te tūranga | About the role We’re seeking a visionary Principal Engineer to lead the evolution of our enterprise-wide strategic platform. This is a senior technical and leadership role, responsible for shaping architecture, driving engineering excellence, and ensuring robust security across Microsoft Power Platform, Dynamics 365 (D365), and Azure...


  • Auckland, New Zealand Cognex Corporation Full-time NZD 100,000 - NZD 130,000 Contract

    We’re looking for a Principal Software Engineer who wants to stay deeply hands‐on while stepping into a light technical leadership role. You’ll work on a production platform that powers large‐scale logistics operations around the world, solving real problems at meaningful scale. This role blends senior individual‐contributor work with leading a...


  • Auckland, New Zealand Harrison Grierson Full-time NZD 140,000 - NZD 190,000 Contract

    About Harrison Grierson Harrison Grierson is one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s leading urban development engineering and design consultancies. We pride ourselves on our values, our outlook on people, and the future of our communities. We're driven to create environments that work in harmony with people, and to help people live in harmony with their...


  • Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand Xe.com Full-time NZD 150,000 - NZD 190,000 Contract

    Description About Xe Xe is a cross-border payments platform. We help SMEs and consumers in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand collect, convert, hold, and send money across markets. Each year, over 300 million people use Xe for currency information and over 350,000 use us to send money overseas. Today, we're rebuilding the platform layer behind...


  • Wellington, New Zealand Transpower New Zealand Limited Full-time NZD 150,000 - NZD 210,000 Contract

    Senior technical leadership role within a high-performing engineering team Design, develop and evolve mission-critical applications and integrations Wellington based, hybrid working, excellent employee benefitsHelp power New Zealand's energy futureAbout the teamOur Application Services team develops, enhances and supports the critical applications and...


  • Wellington, New Zealand Transpower New Zealand Limited (TPNZ) Full-time NZD 180,000 - NZD 280,000 Contract

    Senior technical leadership role within a high-performing engineering teamDesign, develop and evolve mission-critical applications and integrationsWellington based, hybrid working, excellent employee benefitsHelp power New Zealand's energy futureAt Transpower, we own and operate New Zealand's National Grid, connecting areas of generation with homes,...


  • Palmerston North, Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand Massey University - Te Kunenga Ki Pūrehuroa Full-time NZD 150,000 Contract

    Principal Systems Engineer – Enterprise Services Shape the future of enterprise platforms at Massey University - join our Enterprise Services team. Be at the heart of secure, reliable and well-governed digital services that support teaching, research and operations. Lead standards, mentor engineers and help Massey's enterprise services evolve for the...


  • Auckland, New Zealand Jacobs Full-time NZD 180,000 - NZD 240,000 Contract

    Principal Protection Engineer, open to local talent or international candidates looking to relocate and help shape the future of energy in New Zealand At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission‑critical outcomes, operational advancement,...


  • Wellington, New Zealand Jacobs Full-time NZD 120,000 - NZD 180,000 Contract

    Principal Protection Engineer, open to local talent or international candidates looking to relocate and help shape the future of energy in New Zealand At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission‑critical outcomes, operational advancement,...


  • Whangarei, Northland, New Zealand Egis Full-time NZD 120,000 - NZD 160,000 Contract

    About UsEgis is a leading global organisation in architecture, consulting, construction engineering, operations and mobility services. We partner with clients to design, deliver and operate smarter infrastructure and places that respond to the world’s evolving needs.With more than 23,000 employees worldwide, we combine global capability with strong local...


  • Whangarei, Northland, New Zealand Egis Group Full-time NZD 120,000 - NZD 180,000 Contract

    Business Line: Energy and Sustainable CitiesType of contract: Permanent contractService Line: BuildingsRegion: Asia PacificJob Family: Technical EngineeringCompany DescriptionEgis is a leading global organisation in architecture, consulting, construction engineering, operations and mobility services. We partner with clients to design, deliver and operate...


  • Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand Jacobs Full-time NZD 150,000 - NZD 190,000 Contract

    Principal Protection Engineer, open to local talent or international candidates looking to relocate and help shape the future of energy in New Zealand At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission‑critical outcomes, operational advancement,...


  • Auckland, New Zealand Arvion Services Full-time NZD 120,000 - NZD 170,000 Contract

    Job Overview: We are looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer with 5+ years of production software development experience to build and improve user-facing applications. You will work with modern frontend technologies, contribute to architecture and technical decisions, conduct code reviews, and mentor other developers. What Will You Do: Build and maintain...