Technology DevOps Lead - Integration - Auckland - 64746 - Spark

General information

Location

Auckland

Expertise

Software Development, Technology

Job Level

Experienced

Employment Type

Permanent full-time

Close Date

30-Aug-2026

Ref #

64746

Description & Requirements

Spark NZ

As New Zealand's largest telecommunications and digital services company, Spark's purpose is to help all of New Zealand win big in a digital world. We provide mobile, broadband, and digital services to millions of New Zealanders and thousands of New Zealand businesses.

We operate in an exciting and constantly evolving industry, where the pace of change brings new and unique challenges every day, so we operate using Agile ways of working to allow us to meet the fast-changing needs of our customers. Agile replaces the traditional hierarchical organisational structure to produce a transparent, collaborative environment with highly productive teams who are empowered to deliver better outcomes for our customers, communities, and all of New Zealand.

About the Role:

As a Tech Lead – Integration, you will provide hands‑on technical leadership within Spark’s Integration Chapter, reporting to the Chapter Lead – Integration. You will lead the design, build, and delivery of high‑quality integration solutions while guiding engineers in squads to adopt modern, secure, and scalable integration practices.

You will act as the technical authority for API‑led and event‑driven integrations, ensuring solutions meet Spark’s engineering standards, non‑functional requirements, and platform direction. You will also champion AI‑assisted engineering practices to improve developer productivity, quality, and reliability.

Day to day you will be involved in:

Technical Leadership & Solution Delivery

Lead the design and implementation of integration solutions using API‑led and event‑driven patterns.

Provide technical direction to engineers within squads, ensuring alignment to chapter standards and enterprise architecture.

Act as the design authority for integrations, reviewing designs, code, and NFRs (performance, security, resilience, observability).

Drive contract‑first development (OpenAPI/AsyncAPI), versioning, and reusability across integration assets.

Troubleshoot complex integration issues and lead root‑cause analysis for production incidents.

Engineering Excellence & AI‑Enabled Practices

Embed AI‑assisted development practices such as code generation, intelligent testing, automated reviews, and quality checks.

Partner Management: Lead offshore partners; define success metrics, capability uplift, and delivery quality.

Collaboration & Mentoring

Mentor and coach engineers, supporting their technical growth and uplift in modern integration practices.

Collaborate closely with Product Owners, Architects, Platform teams, and SRE/Operations.

Support the Chapter Lead by providing technical input into capability uplift, platform improvements, and delivery challenges.

Work effectively with onshore/offshore partner engineers, providing clear technical guidance and quality oversight.

What experience you'll bring?

Leading integration, middleware, or platform teams in large enterprise environments.

Integration Patterns: API-led (REST/OpenAPI), event-driven (Kafka/pub-sub), ESB/legacy modernisation.

Integration Frameworks: Apache Camel for routing, mediation, and integration patterns.

Microservices: Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, contract-first development.

Cloud & Containers: Microsoft Azure, OpenShift (OCP), AKS, CI/CD pipelines.

Security & Observability: OAuth2, mTLS, secrets management, logging, tracing

Managing onshore/offshore partners at scale.

Influencing across internal teams and partner boundaries.

WHY CHOOSE US:

Diversity and Inclusion: Te Kanorau me te Whakawhāiti mai

At Spark, we are constantly looking for ways to build a more inclusive culture.  Our vision is for diversity and inclusion to be "how things are done at Spark", embedded into our day-to-day activities, standards, and business practices.  We want you to feel totally comfortable bringing your whole self to work regardless of your gender, ethnicity, orientation, age, or ability.

Sustainability: Toitū

Sustainability is a key focus for us.  We are dedicated to supporting Aotearoa New Zealand's recovery and economic transformation.  The principle of equity is at the very heart of our approach, and we remain committed to working in partnership to make a positive contribution to digital equity in line with our focus on Diversity and Inclusion.

Benefits: Awhina

Our people matter and we make sure we look after them. As a valued employee of Spark, we've got our people covered with a range of leading benefits including:

Wellbeing - Comprehensive medical insurance, life and income protection.  Access to wellbeing coaches, EAP and in-house Specialist Clinical support through our leading Mahi Tahi Wellness programme.

Hybrid ways of working - for most teams at Spark this means being in the office for 4 days a week, and 1 day being flexible.

Leave - in addition to four weeks annual leave, we offer purchased leave, enhanced parental leave support and study leave.

Spark Credit – we provide permanent employees with $120 monthly Spark credit to use on any of our amazing products.

Spark Share scheme – periodically we offer the opportunity to buy into our share scheme.

Career development – access to an internal marketplace that connects employees with experiential, on the job learning across Spark.

Due to the nature and urgency of this role, we are only considering applicants that are based in New Zealand with permanent residency, citizenship, or a valid work visa (with at least 18 months remaining).

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