Ko wai mātou | About us 

Our purpose is to put our energy where it matters, to decarbonise the New Zealand energy sector and promote #changematters.   

We are committed to delivering market leading performance to shareholders and value to our customers. We will add value to the resources that we are stewards of, in turn ensuring the sustainability of our business.  We work closely with iwi, our neighbours, contractors and our local communities to develop projects that deliver wider benefits beyond the obvious. 

The digital capability at Contact is in a state of growth, both from a Customer perspective (how do we make our customers fall in love with use with products and services that make their life easy) and technical aspect. We have an ambitious roadmap and are not afraid to push the boundaries and change the way people think about power companies. Delivering this transformation will require Contact to strengthen its digital, customer and data capabilities, adopt new ways of working and shape its culture for greater agility, innovation and customer obsession.

What you’ll do

As a Technical Lead you will have a passion for coaching the development team, designing and sizing solutions for projects, setting up and maintaining the Digital DevOps pipeline, creating best practice, as well as rolling up your sleeves and writing clean, well-factored, and maintainable code.

• You will work with cutting edge technologies and you will have the opportunity to further your career in the cloud space (AWS).
• We are looking for someone with 15 plus years of experience, having had software development as their primary role during this period.

Experience with:

• 8+ years of AWS development and systems admin (EC2, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, RDS, etc)
• 5+ years of CI/CD pipeline build and maintenance (Sysops) including Git versioning (specifically Gitlab and Gitflow)
• Designing, documenting, presenting, and implementing solutions
• Experience managing incidents and resolution
• 8+ years of API development (preferably Serverless/Node.JS) including Unit testing
• 5+ years of Mobile development (iOS/Android/React Native) desirable
• 5+ years working with C level stakeholders
• As well as all the technical know-how, you will be a team player with good communication skills and be able to interact with and translate technical speak for business users.
• Ability to achieve outcomes by influencing Architects and Leadership

The following will be regarded as advantages:

• Any experience with, NoSQL and Relational databases, Typescript, experience in developing and integrating with third party APIs, working with C#, Sitecore; experience working in a scrum environment

 How you’ll be successful

• Contribute to the Architectural Roadmap for Contact
• Recommend new technologies to accelerate Contact’s Digital transformation
• Coaching other developers solve complex problems and rolling up your sleeves when needed
• Creating development plans for junior developers
• Passion for writing well factored code that is easy to read and test
• You understand how your code helps drive the overall business
• You have a strong business acumen and get that we build to deliver business value

How to get involved?  

At Contact we are extremely fortunate to actively promote a new ways of working programme, essentially this means that the life/work balance actively present and working remotely is the norm.

If working for a progressive company is for you, apply now. Thanks and looking forward to the korero.  

Contact Energy is committed to being an inclusive employer. We want people to be themselves, after all, they can't be anyone else!

Please note, only candidates with the right to live and work in New Zealand will be considered for this role.