Head of Applications
Hybrid (Auckland)Permanent Full-TimePosted 1mo ago
About the role
Senior leadership role responsible for shaping the applications strategy, modernising digital capabilities, and ensuring secure, reliable, and scalable technology solutions that enable business performance and operational excellence.
Responsibilities
- Lead the enterprise application portfolio, ensuring solutions are secure, reliable, compliant, and effectively managed throughout their lifecycle.
- Develop and execute the applications strategy and roadmap, aligning investments, modernisation initiatives, and lifecycle decisions with business objectives and enterprise architecture.
- Drive service excellence and operational resilience through governance, service ownership, risk management, support, change, and continuity practices.
- Lead application modernisation and rationalisation programmes that reduce complexity, increase productivity, and deliver measurable business value.
- Build trusted relationships with business leaders, technology stakeholders, and strategic vendors to deliver effective business and technology outcomes.
- Establish clear accountability for application performance, service quality, and user experience across the portfolio.
- Lead and develop high-performing teams, creating opportunities for growth, capability uplift, and future readiness.
- Identify and embed enhancements that improve operational effectiveness and the delivery of technology services.
Qualifications
- Proven experience leading enterprise application portfolios, product management, or technology service functions.
- Strong background in applications strategy, digital transformation, and technology modernisation.
- Experience managing complex technology environments and leading large-scale application ecosystems.
- Demonstrated success in driving operational excellence, governance, service management, and risk management practices.
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to influence and partner with senior executives.
- Experience leading and developing high-performing technology teams.
- Strong commercial acumen and vendor management experience.
- Excellent communication, leadership, and decision-making skills.
- Experience within a complex corporate, professional services, financial services, or enterprise environment.
- Knowledge of enterprise architecture principles and application lifecycle management.
- Experience delivering technology transformation, cloud adoption, or application rationalisation programmes.
- Understanding of IT governance, security, compliance, and business continuity frameworks.
- Experience with Microsoft 365 and ServiceNow platforms is highly desirable.
Skills
Required:Enterprise application portfolio managementApplications strategy and roadmappingDigital transformation and modernisationGovernance, risk and service managementStakeholder managementLeadership and people developmentVendor management
Nice to have:Enterprise architectureMicrosoft 365 / ServiceNow
Benefits
- Access to the firm’s annual incentive scheme
- Opportunities for local and international secondments
- Hybrid working across a mix of office, client and home hubs
- The ability to work from overseas and extend time connecting with friends and family outside New Zealand
- Flexible leave options, including the ability to purchase additional annual leave
- 18 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents
- Paid professional association membership of your choice
- Digital accreditations through our partnership with Microsoft, LinkedIn Learning
- Special offers and discounts on insurances, banking services, and lifestyle goods and services
- Inclusion, Diversity and Equity affinity networks participation
- Green Team activities and environmental initiatives
- Social club participation for events
- Paid time off for volunteering
- Wellbeing benefits including flu vaccinations, subsidised sporting events, confidential counselling, wellbeing leave, and wellbeing resources
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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