New Zealand Police is working with the community to make New Zealanders be safe and feel safe. With over 13,000 staff, we provide policing services 24 hours a day, every day. We operate by land, sea and air, manage over 860,000 emergency calls a year and are always actively preventing crime and crashes.
We're working towards specific goals and targets that highlight our intent to work collaboratively with iwi and communities, other government sectors and business partners to deliver `Our Business' and achieve long-term change.
Technical Product owner - Core Platforms
Drive modernisation and shape the future in this exciting role. Make your mark today!
- Based at Royal NZ Police College or Police National Head Quarters Wellington
- Police Employee/ Constabulary
- Permanent- Full Time
- JR 5116288
E tu ki te kei o te waka, kia pakia koe e nga ngaru o te wa.
Stand at the stern of the canoe and feel the spray of the future biting at your face
Mo te tunga | About the role
The purpose of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) group is to work in partnership with the rest of the organisation to provide digital technology and communications solutions that support excellence in policing and service delivery and enable Police's strategic ambitions.
New Zealand Police is a forward-thinking organisation committed to leveraging technology to enhance community safety and frontline effectiveness. With a primary hub in Wellington, our ICT group is at the heart of this progressive journey, operating under a modern product delivery model that empowers cross-functional teams to deliver value continuously and iteratively.
As the Technical Product Owner of Core Platforms, you will lead the development and evolution of foundational infrastructure services, with a focus on virtualisation, containerisation, and hybrid cloud technologies. This role is ideal for a virtualisation specialist who thrives in a collaborative, agile environment and is passionate about driving innovation at scale.
Opportunities like this do not come along often. This unique and key role in our Platforms Group will allow you to: -
- Work in a product-centric delivery model that emphasises ownership, agility, and continuous improvement. As a TPO, you'll shape the roadmap, prioritise work, and ensure alignment with strategic goals.
- Join a team with a progressive technology vision that is actively modernising the organisation's infrastructure stack, embracing automation, DevOps, and cloud-native practices.
- Deliver impact at scale directly supporting and improving reliability of mission-critical systems that enable policing across Aotearoa.
- Enjoy a collaborative, inclusive culture with strong support for innovation and continuous improvement.
In this role you will provide the vision for our core infrastructure platforms, with a focus on: -
- Virtualisation platforms (VMware)
- Container orchestration (OpenShift)
- Hybrid cloud infrastructure (Azure and AWS)
- Automation, DevOps enablement and platform tooling
- Service Reliability Engineering
We seek a strong people leader who can provide technical leadership to engineering teams and foster an agile team culture. You will bring strong relationship skills to collaborate widely with stakeholders, vendors, architects, and other product owners to deliver value from our platforms. You will champion a modern approach to the delivery of reliable mission critical products and a data driven approach guide improvements and future development.
If you are someone who has proven ability to mentor, drive new technology and infuse new ways of working then this role is for you.
Our Technical Product Owner roles carry the same position description across our products, and we are seeking to build a team that is flexible by design. This role will lead a team of direct reports and works closely with other Product Managers, Owners and our Architecture team to drive the adoption of practices at Police.
He aha taau e kawe mai | What you'll bring
While we are looking for skills, knowledge and experience relevant to the role, we also place high importance on your state of mind, the alignment of your values with ours, your ability to contribute to and build high performing teams, and the way that you lead yourself or others.
To be successful an applicant would need to demonstrate:
- Proven ability and product knowledge to be able to provide technical leadership.
- Strong leadership and interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate widely and effectively.
- Strong planning and organisation skills, including an understanding of agile and product practices.
- Ability to build and maintain strong relationships with people at all levels of an organisation.
- Proven analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills in a technical discipline.
- Ability to prioritise and manage multiple tasks and deadlines in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
Whakaritenga motuhake | Special requirements
- This role is based in the Wellington area. Some travel may be required.
This role is set at Leader/Manager level, this means your key purpose is "to lead tactics for Our Business and enable people to deliver them".
To view the position description for this role please copy and paste this link into a new browser:
https://www.police.govt.nz/sites/default/files/pd/06-2025/technical_product_owner.pdf
Mo tatou | About us
New Zealand Police is the lead agency responsible for preventing crime and enhancing community safety. It works in partnership with individuals, communities, businesses, and other public sector agencies towards the vision of making New Zealand the safest country. Police is the government's largest front-line response agency with around 15,000 staff in large and small communities all over New Zealand and in liaison and policing development roles overseas.
Your development is highly valued at NZ Police. Our employees enjoy significant investment in their development not only at an individual level, but also at the team and community practice level. We work hard to match you with work that will both play to your strengths and challenge you in new ways.
The work you'll be engaged in is real, tangible work that directly benefits our frontline and communities. Taken all together, this means we can offer you career path opportunities to progress in your chosen profession and become a more well-rounded, experienced leader, with opportunities across the range of work we support.
To view more detailed information about our recruitment process along with further details about requirements please click below link:
Applicant Information Pack (External)
Tono inaianei | Apply now
If this position sounds like you, click apply now and submit a tailored CV. You will be required to submit an application form. Before confirmation of hire, pre-employment checks will be undertaken which include reference, drug and alcohol testing and police vetting prior to any written offer being made.
For further information on the application process, please copy and paste this URL: https://www.police.govt.nz/careers
All applications must be submitted online and will not be accepted directly via email. All applicants must have the right to work in New Zealand.
If you are an internal applicant, you must apply internally through the police system. You must provide an alternative contact email address and state your future commitments should you be successful in the next stage of the recruitment process.
Please note: Deadline for applications is 5:00 pm on Tuesday 1st July 2025. Applications may be reviewed prior to the closing date as well as contact made with candidates.
Interviews are tentatively scheduled for July 2025
If you have any questions about this vacancy, please contact [email protected]
