Platform Delivery Lead

About the role:

As Platform Delivery Lead, you will provide delivery leadership across the Digital Platforms function, ensuring platform initiatives are effectively planned, prioritised, and delivered to achieve both business outcomes and long-term platform sustainability.

You will operate at the intersection of strategy, platform roadmap, and delivery execution, coordinating work across Platform Engineering, Cloud, DevSecOps, and supporting capabilities including networking, automation, and observability.

This role is responsible for managing delivery flow, dependencies, and risks across multiple initiatives, while providing clear delivery assurance to stakeholders. You will play a key role in shaping delivery practices, improving predictability, and enabling the consistent, high-quality delivery of platform capabilities.

Key responsibilities: 

Strategic Delivery Leadership

• Provide delivery leadership to ensure Digital Platform initiatives align with organisational and Member strategies and deliver measurable business outcomes
• Partner with business, architecture, and technology leaders to shape delivery plans, sequencing, and priorities
• Align delivery with the Digital Platforms roadmap, ensuring work supports long-term platform evolution
• Balance demand, capacity, risk, and platform sustainability across competing priorities

Delivery Execution & Assurance

• Own end-to-end delivery of Digital Platform initiatives, from initiation through to deployment and transition into operational support
• Establish and manage delivery plans, milestones, and outcomes across multiple concurrent initiatives
• Proactively manage delivery risks, dependencies, and trade-offs across platform domains
• Provide clear, consistent reporting and delivery assurance to stakeholders
• Act as an escalation point for delivery challenges and resolve cross-team blockers
• Actively remove impediments to ensure delivery momentum and outcomes

Cross-Platform Coordination

• Coordinate delivery across Platform Engineering, Cloud, DevSecOps, and supporting capabilities
• Ensure cohesive and integrated delivery across networking, automation, observability, and platform services
• Enable strong alignment between technical teams and business stakeholders

Planning, Governance & Continuous Improvement

• Contribute to enterprise planning processes (e.g. Quarterly Planning), ensuring platform initiatives, dependencies, and capacity are accurately represented
• Drive continuous improvement in delivery practices, tools, and ways of working
• Improve delivery predictability, transparency, and overall execution maturity across Digital Platforms

People & Ways of Working

• Support capability development through coaching, guidance, and clear delivery expectations
• Foster a collaborative, outcome-focused culture across platform and delivery teams
• Promote strong engagement between technical teams and stakeholders

About you:

You are a confident and experienced delivery leader, comfortable operating in complex, matrixed environments. You bring structure, clarity, and accountability to delivery, while maintaining strong engagement across both technical teams and senior stakeholders.

You are equally comfortable discussing delivery plans at a senior level as you are engaging with engineers on platform delivery risks and dependencies.

You will bring:

• Demonstrated experience leading delivery of complex digital or platform initiatives in large or enterprise environments
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate progress, risks, dependencies, and trade-offs
• Experience working across modern Digital Platform environments, including:

• • Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • DevSecOps practices
  • Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines
  • Enterprise networking and platform automation

• Practical experience with Platform Engineering concepts and cloud-based delivery
• Proven ability to coordinate delivery across multiple teams and manage dependencies, risks, and competing priorities
• Experience working within structured planning and governance processes

How to apply:

Ready to take on the challenge? Click “apply” now! Applications will close 24 May 2026 and will only be accepted via our careers site.

If you have any questions about the role, or experience any issues submitting your application, please email careers@foodstuffs-si.co.nz

Join us in feeding the South Island.

About us:

We’re a team of 14,000 who make sure South Islanders have access to the groceries and essentials they need. Proudly 100% Kiwi-owned and operated, our co-operative has more than 180 PAK’nSAVE, New World, Four Square and On the Spot stores feeding the South Island.

We value being at the heart of our communities, like we’ve always been, to make the South Island a better place – for today and for many generations to come. From sunny Golden Bay all the way to Stewart Island, there’s a Foodstuffs store serving you and your whānau.

Our success is down to our people who bring their skills, experience, passion, and expertise to make Foodies an amazing and rewarding place to work. Our co-op has a wide variety of roles to offer, and endless opportunities for development.

Our values:

At Foodies, together we drive success to be our best and care for our whānau. We recognise that it takes a collective effort to achieve success, and we thrive on fostering a culture of collaboration to drive innovation and embracing challenges as a united team. We are committed to supporting our people, and to positively impact the lives of South Islanders every day.

Why join us?

• Our approach to flexible working is based on trusting and empowering our people to manage their time and deliver results while balancing the needs of their personal lives.
• We’re committed to equitable outcomes, and we offer additional paid parental leave, free period products and financial health checks to name a few.
• We support your wellbeing with Southern Cross health insurance for you and your family after a qualifying period, discounts at local gyms, access to online wellbeing tools, and a prayer and privacy room onsite.
• We offer continuous learning and professional growth, as well as access to our extensive online training library and endless opportunities.
• We’re proud of our supportive team environment, and our positive and friendly culture that’s made fun by Furry Friend Fridays and monthly social events!
• We are committed to an inclusive workplace where everyone thrives, every day and we celebrate our diversity as strength.
• Our Papanui based office has free carparking, an in-house café.