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:

• 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 longterm sustainability.
• Manage endtoend 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 crossteam 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 youll 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 tradeoffs.
• 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 cloudbased 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.

Dont Meet Every Requirement

We encourage you to apply anyway. We are looking for individuals with diverse experiences and are keen to hear from those who believe they have the drive and potential to succeed in this role.

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

Join us in feeding the South Island.

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.
• Were 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.
• Were proud of our supportive team environment and our positive and friendly culture thats 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:

Were a team of 14000 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 PAKnSAVE New World Four Square and On the Spot stores feeding the South Island.

We value being at the heart of our communities like weve 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 theres 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.