Platform Delivery Lead in Christchurch

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:

• Lead the delivery of Digital Platform initiatives, ensuring work is planned, sequenced, and executed to deliver agreed business and platform outcomes.
• Shape delivery plans and priorities in partnership with business, architecture, and technology leaders, balancing demand, capacity, risk, and long‑term sustainability.
• Manage end‑to‑end delivery across multiple concurrent initiatives, maintaining momentum from initiation through deployment and transition to operations.
• Identify and actively manage delivery risks, dependencies, and constraints, resolving issues and removing cross‑team impediments.
• Coordinate delivery across Platform Engineering, Cloud, DevSecOps, and enabling services to ensure cohesive, integrated outcomes.
• Provide clear delivery visibility and assurance through accurate planning, progress reporting, and escalation where required.
• Continuously improve delivery practices, tools, and ways of working to strengthen predictability, transparency, and execution maturity.

About you:

You are a confident delivery leader with experience operating in complex, matrixed environments. You bring structure and accountability to delivery and are comfortable engaging with both senior stakeholders and technical teams to manage risks, dependencies, and outcomes. Ideally, you’ll also bring:

• Demonstrated experience leading the delivery of complex digital or platform initiatives in large or enterprise environments.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to clearly convey progress, risks, dependencies, and trade‑offs.
• Experience working across modern digital platform environments, including cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), DevSecOps practices, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, enterprise networking, and platform automation.
• Practical exposure to Platform Engineering concepts and cloud‑based delivery.
• Proven ability to coordinate delivery across multiple teams while managing competing priorities, dependencies, and risks.
• Experience operating within structured planning, governance, or portfolio management 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.

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.

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.