Engineering Practice Lead

Jora New Zealand will close on 9th September 2026. Thank you for being with us, we are cheering you on as you continue your career journey. 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. This is an enterprise-wide engineering practice leadership role focussed on setting direction for engineering practices at BNZ. As Engineering Practice Lead, you will be the custodian of engineering excellence across BNZ. Rather than owning delivery outcomes or technology platforms, your focus will be on defining and championing best practice, ensuring our teams have the standards, frameworks and guidance needed to build high-quality, resilient and sustainable software at scale. The role operates primarily through influence, enablement and evidence, rather than positional authority. Responsibilities in this role include: Define and evolve engineering practice standards across coding, software design and the SDLC, ensuring they are clear, practical and adoptable. Create and maintain reference practices, patterns and guidance that provide teams with a consistent foundation for how we engineer at BNZ. Act as the custodian of the engineer role, clarifying expectations across engineering levels and specialisations. Partner with people leaders to support clear engineering career progression paths that are grounded in real engineering practice. Coach and support engineering leaders and teams to uplift practice maturity through hands-on enablement and targeted interventions. Measure and report on engineering practice health and adoption across Technology, using evidence to guide where improvement effort delivers the most value. Connect engineering practice to governance and assurance outcomes, reducing systemic risk through consistent, well understood expectations. Partner with Engineering Product, Architecture and Security teams to ensure standards are reflected in tooling, delivery processes and control frameworks. A key outcome of this role is improving clarity and confidence in how engineering careers operate at BNZ. You will contribute to: Clear articulation of engineering expectations across roles and levels, aligned to BNZ's standards and ways of working. Consistent signals to engineers about how they grow their craft, influence and impact over time. Guidance that helps leaders have meaningful conversations about capability development, strengths and growth areas. Alignment between engineering standards, training investments and career progression so learning translates into better outcomes. A balanced view of engineering excellence that values quality, resilience, collaboration and sustainable delivery alongside speed. Success in this role looks like clear, measurable adoption of engineering practices across Technology that enable teams to move forward faster. Teams are using common standards and patterns, delivery expectations are more consistent, and engineering role clarity supports stronger capability development. Governance and assurance signals improve as practice maturity improves, and engineers have greater confidence in how they grow and develop at BNZ. What skills & experience would be beneficial? Strong technical credibility across modern software engineering practices, including coding standards, software design and SDLC disciplines. Experience defining or evolving engineering standards or role frameworks in a large, complex or regulated environment. A pragmatic, adoption led mindset with the ability to see patterns across teams, knowing when to standardise and when to provide flexibility. Proven ability to influence behaviour and support change without relying on formal authority. A strong coaching orientation and the ability to build trusted relationships with engineers and engineering leaders. Systems thinking and comfort working across multiple technology stacks, domains and delivery contexts. Closing Date: 01 September 2026 Applications will be reviewed regularly across the advertising period, but we do reserve the right to close applications early. #J-18808-Ljbffr