Enterprise Integration Services Team Lead

Enterprise Integration Services Team Lead

Kia ora. We're Foodies. You know New World, PAK'nSAVE and Four Square right? That's us! With 300+ stores and over 24,000 Foodies across Te Ika-a-Maui, our North Island Co-op has the privilege of helping New Zealanders get more out of life. Locally owned, we reflect the communities we serve, and we celebrate our people - our taonga, every day for being uniquely them. Our Support Centre is 1,000+ people strong, which includes 300+ IT employees, who all play a vital role in ensuring the cogs of our Co-op stay turning and our systems stay 'byte'-sized and 'bug'-free.

About the Role

As the Enterprise Integration Services Team Lead, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering the integration backbone that powers our enterprise systems. This position blends hands-on technical leadership with strategic oversight, ensuring our integration platforms are robust, scalable, and aligned with our enterprise architecture vision. You'll lead a high-performing team, champion best-in-class engineering practices, and drive continuous improvement to support our business and technology goals. This is a role for a leader who thrives at the intersection of technology and people - someone who can inspire engineering excellence while delivering seamless integration solutions across complex enterprise landscapes. You'll be at the forefront of building the integration fabric that connects mission-critical systems across our enterprise. This is your opportunity to lead a talented team of integrations specialists, work with cutting-edge technologies, and influence the future of integration architecture in a dynamic, customer-focused organisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and Mentor: Provide line management, career development, and engagement for a team of integration specialists, fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration.
• Deliver Integration Excellence: Oversee the design, build, and deployment of enterprise integration services using technologies such as SAP PI/BTP Integration Suite, Apache Kafka, SAP Event Mesh, Google Apigee, SAP API Management, Java/ Node.js on AWS, and CI/CD with GitHub Actions.
• Champion Best Practices: Drive improvements in software development standards, CI/CD automation, testing frameworks, and DevOps maturity.
• Ensure Operational Reliability: Own platform performance metrics and operational support, ensuring high availability and rapid incident resolution.
• Collaborate and Influence: Partner with Enterprise Architects and cross-functional teams to define integration strategies, promote reference architectures, and deliver simplified connectivity solutions.

If you're passionate about technology leadership, operational excellence, and delivering solutions that make a real impact, we'd love to have you on board.

What We Offer

We're committed to providing awesome experiences for our people, including offering a range of benefits:

• Free carparking - we've got over 1,000 carparks including 36 free EV plugs
• Southern cross health insurance
• Onsite café with subsidised meals and mini mart
• 5% discount at our retail stores
• Flexible working options, a day off on your birthday, long service leave
• Inhouse learning and development programmes and courses, flu vaccinations, and social network groups (we call them Tribes).

About You

You're a seasoned technology leader with a passion for integration and engineering excellence. You combine hands-on technical expertise with proven leadership skills, enabling you to guide teams and deliver complex enterprise solutions with confidence. You thrive in dynamic environments, balancing strategic vision with operational reliability.

What We're Looking For

- Proven Leadership: Experience leading software engineering teams with direct line management responsibilities, including mentoring and career development.

- Integration Expertise: Strong background in enterprise integration technologies and modern software development practices.

- Technical Depth: Preferred experience with:

• SAP ERP: RAP, SAP CDS, SAP OData APIs
• Integration Platforms: SAP BTP Integration Suite (Cloud Integration, API Management), Google Apigee
• Microservices: Java (primary), Node.js (beneficial) on AWS
• Databases: Postgres on AWS RDS; MongoDB SaaS (advantageous)
• Event & Streaming: Kafka (AWS MSK highly advantageous), SAP Advanced Event Mesh/Solace Event Mesh
• CI/CD: GitHub and GitHub Actions
• Cloud Infrastructure: AWS and SAP BTP

- Operational Excellence: Demonstrated ability to manage operational support for production platforms, ensuring reliability and performance.

- Stakeholder Engagement: Excellent communication and relationship-building skills across technical and business teams.

- Continuous Improvement: Experience driving metrics-based improvements and fostering a culture of innovation.

Experience awesome. Achieve awesome. Be awesomely you.

We're proud to have a focus on Diversity & Inclusion here at Foodies and welcome courageous behaviour, encourage togetherness, inspire our people to be their best selves in our Foodies whānau. We encourage you to apply with all your awesomeness and welcome your diverse background, including any disability, additional health and mental health needs, and/or neurodiversity. If you require accessibility support to ensure you can fairly access our recruitment process, please reach out to Recruitment.Foodstuffs@foodstuffs.co.nz . Accessibility support could include, interview location, sign language interpreter, assistive technology.