Platform Manager (Packaging & Deployment) - Digital Operations

• Work from your local Health NZ office – stay connected to your community while delivering nationwide digital health change.
• Hybrid working opportunity
• Permanent, Full-time

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is the country's largest employer, delivering universal public healthcare to 5 million New Zealanders. 

We provide essential hospital, specialist, and community health services across 80+ locations - from large urban centres to rural towns and remote communities. 

Our goal is to improve health outcomes for all New Zealanders by delivering equitable, accessible and innovative care. 

About the Role 

Step into a key leadership role as a Platform Manager (Packaging & Deployment) within Digital Operations, where you will provide strategic and technical oversight across the end-to-end packaging and deployment lifecycle. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring deployment platforms and services are reliable, secure, and optimised, enabling consistent and efficient delivery of applications across complex environments. You will shape and drive strategies that strengthen automation, standardisation, and integration, ensuring seamless releases aligned with organisational standards and the broader digital strategy.

You will lead initiatives that enhance deployment pipelines, uplift release management practices, and support continuous delivery across national, regional, and local teams. With a strong focus on operational excellence, you'll maintain high service quality, minimise risk, and drive cost-effective solutions while enabling faster, more reliable delivery of digital services. Working closely with engineers, service owners, and senior stakeholders, you will ensure packaging and deployment capabilities evolve to meet changing business needs and support critical healthcare outcomes.

This role calls for a forward-thinking leader who can foster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and collaboration. You'll champion modern deployment practices, empower teams to adopt smarter and more efficient ways of working, and ensure alignment with key initiatives to simplify processes and transform service delivery. Your leadership will be instrumental in building resilient, scalable deployment capabilities that underpin a high-performing, future-focused digital environment.

About the Team/Service/ Location 

You'll be part of a nationally connected Digital Operations function, supporting enterprise-scale platforms that enable the secure and efficient packaging and deployment of critical digital services across Health New Zealand. The team operates across regional and local environments, working collaboratively to deliver consistent, standardised deployment practices that support high-quality healthcare outcomes. With a strong focus on automation, reliability, and continuous improvement, the service plays a key role in ensuring applications are delivered seamlessly and at scale.

Within this environment, you'll join a diverse and inclusive team that values innovation, knowledge sharing, and continuous learning. The culture encourages collaboration across technical and business teams, while supporting the development of modern deployment capabilities and agile ways of working. Based in Aotearoa New Zealand, this role offers the opportunity to contribute to meaningful national initiatives while working in a supportive environment that prioritises people, performance, and long-term impact.

About you

You are an experienced and forward-thinking technology leader with deep expertise in packaging and deployment practices across complex enterprise environments. You bring a strong track record of leading high-performing teams and delivering reliable, secure, and scalable deployment solutions that enable seamless service delivery. With a strategic mindset and hands-on understanding of modern deployment pipelines, automation, and release management, you are confident balancing innovation with risk to ensure systems integrity and operational stability.

You are highly collaborative and outcome-driven, with the ability to influence stakeholders, align technical solutions to business needs, and drive continuous improvement. Your leadership style reflects accountability, integrity, and a commitment to developing people and fostering inclusive, high-performing teams. You understand the importance of cultural competency in Aotearoa New Zealand and are committed to applying Te Tiriti o Waitangi principles in a meaningful way, while contributing to a safe, supportive, and values-driven environment.

You will have:

• Extensive experience (10+ years) in ICT, with at least 5 years in senior technical leadership roles focused on platforms, packaging, or deployment
• Proven expertise in software packaging, deployment pipelines, release management, and automation across complex, enterprise-scale environments
• Demonstrated ability to design and implement deployment strategies that improve reliability, scalability, and speed of delivery
• Strong understanding of balancing innovation with risk, ensuring secure, compliant, and stable deployment practices
• Experience optimising service performance and cost-efficiency of critical systems and platform services
• Relevant tertiary qualification in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business or equivalent experience
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and leadership skills, with the ability to influence across technical teams, business units, and external partners

Working for Health New Zealand

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is dedicated to ensuring excellent healthcare for the people of New Zealand. We embrace a workforce that is diverse and inclusive so that we are better positioned to understand and service our community. We welcome applications from our diverse Māori, Pacific, disabled, and rainbow communities.    

How to Apply 

To apply please click “apply now.”  All applications must be submitted through our online careers' portal by 11:59 pm on 28 May. If you have any questions about the role, please contact Roshni George at roshni.george@tewhatuora.govt.nz 

Whilst Health New Zealand is undergoing change, affected employees will be given preference and priority for this position.