Worker Type:
Permanent
Here at BNZ, it's about more than just banking. We work together in an agile, energising environment to create innovative solutions through our promise "If you can imagine a better future, let's find a way."
We support wellbeing, flexible working and have a generous leave offering. There is the opportunity for growth, learning and career development. No two days are the same.
We have several opportunities for inspiring technology leaders to join our Technology team as Head of Technology. The roles are as follows:
- Head of Technology – Lending Domain
- Head of Technology – Payments
- Head of Techology – Cards and Merchants.
Your role is to provide leadership and direction to your technology domain, ensuring alignment with our strategic goals and regulatory compliance. Your accountability lies in achieving business objectives, fostering high-performing teams, expertly managing resources, and ensuring systems confidentiality, integrity and availability.
Mō te Role | About the Role
We sat down with our GM - Product & Services, and they let us know the following about the role.
What are some of the day to day tasks the person in this role will complete?
- Develop and implement a comprehensive domain technology roadmap that aligns with BNZ’s strategic ambition and technology strategy. Define clear milestones and key performance indicators to track progress.
- Build and lead a high-performing leadership team and domain. Foster a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement. Encourage the adoption of best practices in product, engineering, and agile methodologies.
- Build and maintain effective relationships with stakeholders, ensuring senior leaders and other colleagues are kept informed on the domain technology roadmap and progress.
- Foster collaboration and alignment between technology domains and other business units. Ensure technology solutions support and enhance BNZ's strategic goals.
- Manage the domain budget / cost centre effectively and optimize resource allocation to maximize the impact of technology initiatives.
What is exciting about this opportunity?
You’ll be leading a motivated and cross functional team of technologists that support mission critical functions and deliver change at scale to BNZ customers. These roles are rare and allows you to lead across its breadth of accountabilities such as people leadership, strategic direction, financial management, operational excellence and delivery management. If you find the thought of leading teams that run key functions and deliver meaningful change at scale to New Zealanders exciting, then these are the roles for you.
What is the most challenging thing about this opportunity?
The most challenging aspect is the experience and skillset needed to balance the breadth of the role. You will need to inspire and lead large teams, have financial mastery of your budgets, understand your subject matter to support the strategic direction, ensure we foster a security focused culture, and adhere to our security policies.
What attributes will this person display in order to be successful in this role?
To thrive in this role you'll bring:
- Strategic Thinking: Ability to create and execute tech strategies aligned with business goals.
- Communication & Collaboration: Skilled at collaborating and communicating across business and technology teams.
- Problem Solver & Adaptability: Proficient in tackling tech challenges and driving change through organisations.
What specific skills would be beneficial?
- Tech Savvy: Deep knowledge of relevant technologies and industry trends.
- Inspiring Leadership: Strong leadership skills to motivate teams and achieve goals.
- Financial Smarts: Strong grasp of financial principles, including budgeting, forecasting and cost management.
- Security Awareness: strong understanding of cybersecurity principles & ability to integrate security considerations into technology decisions and team culture.
Nau Mai ki te Pēke o Aotearoa | Come to the Bank of New Zealand
Please note applications close 11:55pm, Monday 4 August 2025. We will be reviewing applications as they are received therefore may close advertising early.
This is an exciting opportunity to join us! We're bold thinkers who are taking brave steps to create a company that people want to work for, and customers want to bank with. If you're ready to join a fun organisation where we are proud of our culture and how we are helping New Zealander's to 'Find their way', then show your interest by submitting your application - we can't wait to read it.
Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi, engari he toa takitini" - Success is not the work of an individual, but the work of many.”
Closing Date: 04 August 2025
Applications will be reviewed regularly across the advertising period, but we do reserve the right to close applications early.
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