Technical Lead

Meridian Energy is expanding its technical leadership team in Wellington, offering a hybrid role that brings hands-on influence to cross-functional squads. As New Zealand’s largest renewable electricity producer, Meridian and its Powershop brand power more than 400,000 homes, businesses and farms across the country, with Meridian drawing energy from wind, water and sun. The Technical Lead role sits at the intersection of architecture, delivery and operations, ideal for someone who loves shaping secure, scalable solutions and guiding teams to strong outcomes. In this position, you’ll work across business units to steer solution design, support quality delivery, and contribute your hands-on expertise to end-to-end initiatives. You’ll provide technical direction to squads, help assess integrations and vendor solutions, respond to incidents, and ensure platforms are well supported on a daily basis. The company relies on your ability to translate complex problems into practical, well-architected outcomes and to maintain a steady hand when priorities shift.

Steering the technical helm across squads

Your day-to-day will blend hands-on engineering with mentorship and collaboration. You’ll lead technical discussions within cross-functional teams, shaping how new capabilities are built and how existing systems are extended. You’ll oversee the creation and integration of solutions that are secure and scalable, while supporting smooth handovers to operations and ensuring ongoing platform health. Building strong relationships with stakeholders and contributing to communities of practice are part of the rhythm, as is guiding incident response and maintaining existing platforms to keep the energy system reliable.

What you’ll need to lead the way

Here’s what Meridian is looking for, with must-have capabilities and a couple of extras that would help you stand out.

• Experience applying cloud-based architectures, DevOps practices, automation and security-aware design

• A background in enterprise-scale solution architecture for corporate systems

• Designing and maintaining business logic automations

• Evaluating vendor-provided solutions and their fit for the organisation

• Assessing options for scalability, testability and maintainability

• Approaching tough technical problems with practical, actionable outcomes

• Collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams

• Translating technical concepts for diverse audiences

• Championing continuous improvement, knowledge sharing and capability uplift

• Keeping documentation up to date with modern practices

• Thriving in a fast-paced, collaborative environment

• Experience supporting enterprise systems and integrations (e.g. Oracle, Maximo, Azure, MS365, DataBricks, SQL Server) would be a plus

Pay, benefits and practical details

The role comes with an attractive and competitive salary package that is reviewed annually, plus a performance incentive and partner discounts. The team also benefits from Southern Cross Healthcare’s wellbeing coverage and a funded Wellbeing One program for eligible employees. Enhanced leave provisions include three company-paid days over the holiday period, enhanced parental leave and the option to buy up to 12 additional leave days. Other protections and perks include life, trauma and income protection insurance, enhanced KiwiSaver contributions, access to the Meridian employee share scheme, and ample learning and development opportunities. There are also wellbeing programs and discounts on Meridian power, with a one-off $400 payment to support home office setup if needed. The role is based in Wellington with hybrid work options to support balance and flexibility.

Advice for applicants

Start your resume with a short profile that foregrounds cloud, DevOps, automation and secure design, plus enterprise solution architecture experience. This helps the hiring team see that you’re prepared to lead technically across squads and to influence architecture decisions early in the process. When you talk about your experience, give concrete examples that prove you can meet the must-have capabilities: lead design for scalable and secure solutions, review vendor offerings, automate business logic, collaborate across functions, and document architectures clearly. If you’ve worked on enterprise integrations or complex systems, pull those stories forward with measurable outcomes and the specific technologies involved. For interviews, prepare to recount a complex technical challenge you solved end-to-end, including how you ensured scalability, maintainability and testability, how you coordinated with cross-functional teams, and how you handled incident response. Bring a few concise stories that show your approach to continuous improvement and knowledge sharing. Finally, consider asking a targeted question that shows you’re thinking about real-world impact, such as how the teams measure success for a Technical Lead, how vendor solution reviews are integrated into delivery, or what current platforms and integrations are in play (for example Oracle, Maximo, Azure, MS365, DataBricks, SQL Server).

How to apply

To view the full Position Description, please click here: here. Meridian encourages applicants from all backgrounds and recognizes potential alongside formal qualifications. Advertising closes on 20 October 2026 (subject to change). If you have questions, you can reach [email protected].