Tech Lead — Greenfield Platform Build

Digital Team | Auckland CBD

The Company

This well-regarded New Zealand consultancy has made a genuine commitment to becoming a digital-first business — with technology, data and AI built into how it delivers for clients, not bolted on as an afterthought. At the centre of that shift sits a dedicated Digital Team, and at the centre of the Digital Team sits a brand-new platform being built entirely from the ground up.

The culture here is collaborative and in-person by design. Product, engineering, data and AI all sit together rather than in silos, and the pace reflects that — decisions get made, work ships, and everyone can see the impact of what they're building.

The Opportunity

The Digital Team is looking for a Tech Lead to partner directly with the CTO in defining and delivering the company's new platform. This is a build, not a maintenance job — you're stepping into a greenfield environment on a modern stack (Supabase, Node.js, React, and the Claude API), with real latitude to shape technical direction rather than inherit someone else's architecture.

As the most senior developer on the team, you'll set the engineering quality bar and progressively take on greater ownership of technical decisions as the platform and team mature. You're joining a capable crew that needs more depth and senior firepower to deliver on an ambitious digital roadmap — and the scope of this role is designed to grow as they do.

The Day-to-Day

Expect to split your time between hands-on building and technical leadership. You'll work alongside the CTO on platform architecture and the technical roadmap, making and documenting the decisions that shape how the product comes together. That means designing the data model and security posture in Supabase (RLS, Auth, Edge Functions), owning the CI/CD pipeline through GitHub and Vercel, and integrating the Claude API into product features — prompt design, tool use, streaming and all.

There's a strong people element too. You'll lead code review, mentor developers across the team, and run sprint planning alongside the Product Manager. When needed, you'll step in to facilitate the team's ceremonies — this is a team that treats sprint goals as a shared outcome, not a personal scoreboard, and the Tech Lead sets that tone.

What You'll Need

• 8+ years in software engineering, with 3+ years in a tech lead, principal or staff capacity
• Strong React (hooks, state management), Node.js and TypeScript
• Hands-on Supabase experience — Postgres, RLS, Edge Functions, Auth
• Solid REST/API design fundamentals
• Confident with Git/GitHub workflows and CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Vercel)
• Experience shipping and operating a production SaaS application
• Claude API or broader LLM integration experience (highly regarded)
• Prior experience leading a small engineering team (a bonus)
• Exposure to infrastructure and DevOps practices

The Right Fit

Someone decisive under ambiguity — willing to make a call and own it — who can break down complex problems and drive them through to resolution. You'll bring initiative without going off on tangents, pragmatic judgement about when to move fast and when to slow down for quality, and the ability to explain technical trade-offs clearly to both the CTO and non-technical stakeholders. A genuine mentor's mindset and a team-first attitude matter here as much as the technical depth.

On Offer

A rare greenfield build with modern tooling and AI at its core; a direct working partnership with the CTO; a fast-paced, cross-functional team where you can see your impact daily; and a role deliberately designed to grow in scope as the platform scales. If you want to shape a company's technical future rather than just execute against it, this is that role.

If technical leadership combined with genuine hands-on building sounds like your kind of role, get in touch.

For a confidential conversation please contact Adam Roi on email: adam.r@walkersmith.co.nz

About the company | Mō te kamupene

This organisation is a well-established player delivering large-scale data transformation initiatives across enterprise environments. They are heavily invested in modern cloud technologies and are known for building high-performing, forward-thinking data teams.

What's in it for you: He aha ngā painga mōu

You'll step into a genuinely complex enterprise environment where data is at the core of decision-making, not an afterthought
Work with a modern Azure-based data stack, including Fabric, Databricks and Kafka, on large-scale platforms
You'll be given the autonomy to design solutions properly — with a strong focus on reusability, modularity and long-term thinking
Clear pathway to step into senior and lead-level roles as the platform continues to evolve
Flexible working environment with a team that values output over presenteeism

About the role | Mō te tūranga

You'll play a key role in designing and delivering scalable data solutions within a modern cloud environment, working closely with engineering, analytics and business stakeholders to drive real outcomes.

You will get the opportunity to build scalable data pipelines using Spark and PySpark in a complex enterprise environment
You will design and develop modular, reusable data solutions that support long-term platform scalability
You will work closely with stakeholders to optimise Power BI semantic models and reporting outputs
You will deploy and manage data pipelines using CI/CD, DevOps and DataOps best practices
You will work across technologies such as Kafka, Databricks and Azure-based data services

Skills & Experience | Ngā pūkenga me te wheako

Strong experience with Apache Spark and PySpark, including understanding of internals
Experience working across Azure, Fabric, Synapse, Databricks or AWS environments
Proven capability designing and building ETL pipelines and data warehouse solutions
Solid experience with Power BI modelling and Microsoft SQL Server
Working knowledge of Kafka and modern data architecture principles

How to apply

Please contact Adam Roi on 027 535 6350 for a confidential discussion.
Adam.r@walkersmith.co.nz

Registered Valuer

Flexible Working

Established Pipeline

Growth Platform

An opportunity has arisen for a Registered Valuer to join a well-established property group operating across property management, body corporate management, and valuation services.

The business is in a strong growth phase, supported by ongoing investment and acquisition activity, and offers a stable, recurring valuation pipeline generated through an established client network.

This role is suited to an experienced valuer looking for autonomy, flexibility, and consistent workflow, without the expectation of sourcing your own pipeline.

The Opportunity

You will work across a range of residential, commercial, and insurance-related valuation work, with a strong focus on Body Corporate insurance valuations.

The position sits alongside a large Body Corporate Management division, which manages a substantial portfolio of multi-unit developments nationally.

Client relationships and workflow are managed by the wider business, allowing the valuer to remain focused on delivery and technical expertise.

This is initially a sole-charge position, with future scope to grow the function over time.

Key Responsibilities

• Insurance valuations for Body Corporate and multi-unit developments
• Residential and commercial valuation work
• Reinstatement and replacement cost assessments
• Delivery of concise, accurate, and timely valuation reports
• Providing technical guidance relating to insurance and valuation requirements
• Maintaining high professional and compliance standards

What’s on Offer

• Established recurring workflow with strong visibility of future work
• Delivery-focused role with no active business development requirement
• Flexible working arrangements, including WFH flexibility
• Supportive shared services environment
• Long-term growth platform with ongoing expansion plans
• Opportunity to help scale the valuation function over time
• Strong earning potential through a fee-share structure

About You

• Registered Valuer in New Zealand with a current APC
• Experience across residential valuations is essential
• Comfortable working autonomously

Applications are also welcomed from suitably qualified valuers relocating from the UK or Australia, including those eligible to transfer qualifications into New Zealand.

The Company
Our client is a well-established, market-leading professional services and technology organisation operating globally, recognised for product innovation and operational excellence. With a strong focus on pioneering new market capabilities, the business continues to invest heavily in its digital platforms, building advanced software products sold both locally and into international markets. This organisation offers the stability and heritage of an established enterprise combined with the agile, forward-thinking environment of a modern technology house.

The Role
We are seeking an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Specialist to join a growing Digital Products function. This is a senior, highly strategic, yet hands-on role where you will act as the central subject-matter expert on applied AI across the digital portfolio. You will be responsible for researching, prototyping and integrating modern AI capabilities into high-performing core software products, while also driving AI-assisted engineering productivity and shaping the company’s wider AI governance and strategy

What You'll Be Doing

• Researching and evaluating emerging AI technologies, including LLMs, machine learning frameworks, sophisticated voice-processing AI services, and developer productivity tools
• Designing, prototyping, and validating AI-enabled features through structured proof-of-concepts to enhance product functionality and automation
• Collaborating closely with cross-functional development, testing, and product teams to integrate robust, secure, and cost-effective AI solutions into the software portfolio
• Introducing and establishing guidelines for AI-assisted coding, debugging, and documentation tools to enhance engineering workflows and measure productivity gains
• Contributing expert advice to leadership to help formulate robust AI strategy, security policies, data privacy compliance, and governance frameworks
• Ensuring all AI implementations meet high-quality development principles, remain easily maintainable, and mitigate any systemic or operational risks

Skills and Experience We're Looking For

• A relevant tertiary qualification in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, or a deeply related technical discipline.
• Proven commercial experience working with modern AI tools, LLM APIs, machine learning frameworks, sophisticated voice processing services, and integrating AI capabilities into complex software systems
  
• A strong, practical background in software development engineering, with a solid understanding of modern software practices within agile development environments
• Demonstrated experience evaluating, introducing, and training engineering teams on AI-assisted developer productivity tools
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with a track record of identifying high-value, practical applications for emerging technologies
• Advanced communication and influencing skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical AI concepts clearly to executive, product, and non-technical stakeholders

This position is open across multiple locations including Christchurch, Wellington or Auckland. If you are looking to take ownership of an enterprise-scale AI roadmap and drive real product innovation, please apply now. 

Commercial Broker



• High performance environment
• Fantastic career opportunities
• Strong mentoring

The Company

This is a Kiwi-owned financial services business that has built strong momentum in the market through relationships, execution and a highly commercial approach to lending.

Working across commercial property transactions, the business partners with investors, developers and business owners to deliver tailored funding solutions. With a strong deal pipeline, established referral channels and an entrepreneurial environment, this is an opportunity to step into a business that is continuing to scale and evolve.

The Role

Working closely with senior leaders, you’ll support and manage commercial property lending transactions from initial enquiry through to settlement.

This is a relationship-driven role suited to someone who enjoys commercial conversations, structuring deals and working across multiple stakeholders. You’ll gain exposure to a broad range of transactions including investment, development, refinance and acquisition funding.

Key responsibilities include:

• Managing commercial lending transactions end-to-end
• Working with clients to understand funding requirements and investment goals
• Assisting with deal structuring and lender submissions
• Building relationships with banks, non-bank lenders and referral partners
• Coordinating external stakeholders across transactions
• Supporting pipeline growth through relationship management and networking
• Maintaining a high level of service throughout the transaction process

About You

You could currently be in a commercial banking, business banking or property finance environment and looking for something more entrepreneurial, relationship-led and commercially rewarding.

You’ll likely bring:

• 1–3 years’ experience within banking or commercial finance
• Exposure to commercial lending, property lending or business banking clients
• Strong communication and relationship management skills
• A commercial mindset and genuine interest in property and finance
• Confidence working in a fast-paced environment
• High levels of initiative, energy and professionalism

Most importantly, you’ll be someone who enjoys building relationships, thrives in a performance driven environment and is motivated by long-term career growth.

What’s on Offer

• Strong mentorship from experienced commercial finance professionals
• Broad exposure to commercial property transactions
• A high-performance but supportive environment
• Genuine long-term career growth opportunities
• Competitive salary plus incentive structure

To Apply

Please get in touch with Sarah Bailey at Walker Smith sarah@walkersmith.co.nz or call 022 126 0074.

Audit Partner / Director

• Additional partnership opportunities
• Christchurch
• Big firm ability with smaller firm agility

Grant Thornton New Zealand is on an exciting growth trajectory and is looking for experienced and highly proactive audit partners to contribute to this growth in its Christchurch offices.

Grant Thornton delivers all the services you would expect from a global accounting and advisory firm, but this is where the similarities stop. Here at home and across its global network, Grant Thornton is famous for being down to earth and personable. Clients enjoy a more personalised service, delivered by people who have a passion for their work and a genuine desire to make a real difference. This passion creates a unique environment within the professional services industry, one where both clients and their people feel genuinely supported, can be themselves, and can thrive and grow. The only things treated like a number at Grant Thornton New Zealand are … the numbers.

As an audit partner at Grant Thornton, you will join a rapidly growing practice and inherit a portfolio of high-calibre clients that tell a unique NZ business story, as well as an international one. You will ensure the highest quality audit services are delivered to them while playing an active role in contributing to the firm’s growth.

As a senior member of the firm, you will also be a role model and a people leader, managing a thriving audit team and embodying the firm’s culture and behaviours of: ‘be brave’, ‘trusted to deliver’, ‘we not me’, ‘go beyond’, and ‘have fun and keep it real’. Culture is what sets Grant Thornton apart, and you will quickly become an integral part of the fabric of the firm and its success story.

Naturally, you will also be expected to maintain your technical currency to ensure the highest quality audit advice is delivered to your clients at all times.

Key responsibilities:

• Maintaining and managing a portfolio of existing clients, delivering exceptional high quality audit services and ensuring high levels of client satisfaction
• Taking ownership for the creation and delivery of growth across your portfolio as well as supporting the firm in its wider business development activities
• Ensuring the ongoing development of professional knowledge within the firm by keeping up to date with best practice and sharing expertise, including advising on technical issues, actively involved in technical training, and day to day coaching of team members
• Leading and providing direction to the team, to ensure the effective delivery of strategic initiatives whilst identifying areas for development in team members and working to implement appropriate solutions
• Participating in setting annual budgets and establishing work plans for your team and divisional productivity, working in conjunction with the audit service line Leader to monitor performance against targets, and reporting on progress on a monthly basis
• Managing business risk through delivery of high quality work and compliance with all professional and ethical standards.

About You

You are CA qualified or similar overseas qualification. You’re currently a partner in another organisation, or are looking to return to audit, or perhaps you are an experienced audit director; either way you are an experienced, highly motivated audit professional with a track record for uncompromising quality and a knack for business development. You enjoy working with clients and managing teams and seeking a firm that matches your values and aspirations - a place where people come first and satisfaction comes from a job well done.

If this sounds like you, then Grant Thornton is waiting for your application.

To Apply

To find out more about this opportunity, or to apply please contact Sarah Bailey (Christchurch) at Walker Smith sarah@walkersmith.co.nz or call 022 126 0074.

The Company

Our client is a well-established New Zealand technology organisation delivering high-tier web and mobile platforms across a fast-paced enterprise landscape. The internal culture revolves around collaboration, technical professionalism, and a genuine commitment to supporting engineering success. Operating within an iterative, agile framework, the team takes pride in building software that is secure, simple, fit for purpose, and highly reliable.

The Role

We are seeking an Intermediate DevOps Engineer for a 6 month rolling contract based in Christchurch. This role sits at the intersection of system design, automation and continuous delivery, where you will take ownership of designing, enhancing, and maintaining complex CI/CD solutions. This is a collaborative engineering role embedded within active development streams. You will be responsible for supporting development teams, implementing resilient infrastructure as code and driving modern automated pipelines, whilst showing a proactive approach to continuous learning and technology exploration.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Designing, documenting, and scaling robust CI/CD solutions to enhance deployment velocity and quality gates.
• Managing cloud environments, containerised applications, and production deployments while leveraging modern observability tools for real-time diagnostics and issue resolution.
• Partnering with cross-functional teams (developers, testers, architects) to break down complex architectural problems into manageable tasking.
• Supporting the full software development lifecycle, including clean configuration management, routine code reviews, and maintaining legacy systems where required.
• Constantly leveraging cutting-edge AI utilities to accelerate and optimise standard DevOps workflows from planning through to execution.

Skills and Experience We’re Looking For

• 3+ years of professional software development experience, with at least 1+ years operating at an intermediate level within agile team structures.
• Minimum 2 years of commercial experience across cloud platforms alongside solid proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation, Terraform) and Docker.
• Minimum 2 years of commercial experience with dynamic scripting or backend programming languages (such as Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, or C#) and advanced Git branching/merging proficiency.
• Practical experience architecting and maintaining deployment automation pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar) alongside integrated automated testing frameworks.
• Solid understanding of fundamental networking concepts and experience tracking system health via modern logging tools (e.g., DataDog, Sentry).

This contract role is based in Christchurch and requires candidates to be in New Zealand and able to work from Christchurch. If you possess a strong technical software qualification, a passion for modern automation tools, and thrive in an open, team-oriented environment, please apply now.

Executive Assistant (Part-Time)



Join a fast-paced established environment where you'll coordinate priorities, streamline communication, and help ensure projects stay on track.



• Flexible part-time role, initially 25–30 hours per week
• Varied position combining project coordination and executive support
• Ideally based in Queenstown, or sounding areas
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The Opportunity

Our client is looking for a highly organised Project Coordinator / Executive Assistant to provide support across a range of business initiatives and projects.

Working closely with a director in the business, you'll play a key role in coordinating activities, managing priorities, and ensuring actions continue progressing.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage calendars, meetings and scheduling requirements
• Coordinate actions, deadlines and follow-ups across multiple projects
• Act as a central point of communication between internal and external stakeholders
• Maintain organised records, documentation and correspondence
• Monitor priorities and ensure key tasks remain on track
• Support information flow and communication across various workstreams
• Maintain simple tracking and reporting systems

About You

• Highly organised with strong attention to detail
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Proactive and comfortable managing competing priorities
• Commercially aware with sound judgement
• Confident using Excel, digital calendars, document management systems and AI tools
• Able to work independently and take ownership of outcomes
• Previous experience in project coordination, executive support, administration or a similar role
• Additional hours may become available over time

This role will suit someone who enjoys creating order, keeping people connected, and ensuring priorities continue moving forward in a fast-paced environment.

To Apply

Please email Sarah Bailey at Walker Smith sarah@walkersmith.co.nz or call 022 126 0074.

The Company
Information Leadership is a specialist consultancy working with organisations facing complex information challenges, the kind that don't have obvious answers and can't be solved by technology alone. They help customers improve how they manage, protect, structure, find and use information, through practical solutions spanning Information Management, Microsoft 365, SharePoint, governance and information protection. This is a business that stays close to the work: their consultants remain hands-on through delivery, not just advisory from a distance.

The Role
They're seeking a Senior Consultant to strengthen delivery capability within their growing consulting team. This is a customer-facing, hands-on role where you'll lead workstreams, build trust with stakeholders, and stay involved from discovery through to implementation. It's also a genuine succession opportunity, the right person will have a clear pathway toward Principal Consultant within approximately 12 to 18 months.

What You'll Be Doing

• Leading workstreams and facilitating customer workshops, bringing structure to ambiguous and complex information challenges
• Working hands-on in Microsoft 365 and SharePoint, including information structures, metadata, content types, Purview and collaboration spaces, to shape practical, usable solutions
• Building and maintaining trusted relationships with senior leaders, project sponsors, and technical and operational stakeholders
• Contributing to requirements gathering, solution design, and configuration, staying engaged through to delivery and adoption
• Providing quality assurance and support to junior consultants, while developing your own capability toward a future people-leadership role
• Learning and applying Information Leadership's proprietary frameworks, methodologies and tools, and contributing your own insights back into the team's collective know-how

Skills and Experience We're Looking For

• Strong working experience with Microsoft 365 and SharePoint, with enough platform confidence to work hands-on in configuration and delivery
• Demonstrated experience contributing to the delivery of projects or workstreams involving business users, systems and change, from either a consulting or in-house environment
• Confident stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to facilitate workshops, ask good questions, and help customers make decisions in the face of competing views
• Strong professional judgement and ownership, with the ability to operate through ambiguity without close supervision
• A genuine learning mindset, comfortable adapting to new tools, frameworks and ways of working rather than relying solely on prior methods
• Consulting experience is helpful but not essential; candidates from information governance, digital workplace, infrastructure delivery or transformation backgrounds are equally encouraged to apply

If you're looking to take ownership of meaningful information and Microsoft 365 projects, work closely with customers, and grow toward a Principal Consultant role, please apply now.