Senior Integration Specialist
📍 New Plymouth, Wellington or Palmerston North
🕐 Permanent - Full-time
We’re looking for a Senior Integration Specialist to join our Data, Digital and Technology team. This role is all about designing and delivering integration solutions that help our business work smarter, faster and more connected. You’ll work closely with other technical and business specialists to understand what’s needed – then help bring the solution to life.
Whether you’re hands-on building integrations yourself or guiding external vendors through delivery, you’ll play a key role in how we connect systems, data, and people across Powerco. You’ll also have the opportunity to mentor others and influence how we grow our integration capability over time.
What we offer you
- Positive and supportive team culture and the opportunity to thrive in a genuinely caring and fun environment
- Loads of flexibility – we embrace hybrid working!
- All the usual stuff, but way better- 4% KiwiSaver, ability to buy extra leave, paid volunteer days, free fruit in the office, amazing Parental Leave entitlements, free life and medical insurance – Wow!!!
- As much growth and development as you can take! We are one of the top workplaces to grow your career (2023 LinkedIn Top Companies List for Aotearoa).
About the role
This is a senior, hands-on technical role where you'll design and build integrations while providing technical leadership across the team. You'll work across the full delivery lifecycle, from discovery and solution design through to delivery and operational handover. You'll be a trusted integration expert for architects, stakeholders and delivery teams, helping shape solutions that are scalable, secure and built to last.
You'll also play an important role in growing Powerco's integration capability. From mentoring other Integration Specialists and establishing standards, to influencing vendor-delivered solutions and improving engineering practices, you'll help shape how integration is delivered across the organisation.
Key areas of responsibility include:
Own integration delivery end-to-end
- Engage from early discovery through to solution design, hands-on build, testing, deployment and operational handover
- Design and build integrations across enterprise applications, cloud services and data platforms- API, event-driven, batch and file-based
- Shape solution options and integration designs in partnership with Solution Architects, BAs and stakeholders
Act as Powerco's integration subject matter expert
- Provide platform, API, authentication and system-connectivity guidance to delivery teams and stakeholders
- Contribute to technology evaluations, architecture discussions and platform direction
- Advise on integration patterns that align with enterprise standards
Build supportable solutions
- Design monitoring, alerting, logging and recovery into every solution
- Ensure documentation, as-built artefacts and handover materials are complete and clear enough for someone else to extend or support
- Provide Level 3 support and root-cause analysis for production integration issues
Improve the integration practice
- Establish and maintain integration standards, naming conventions and documentation requirements
- Build reusable patterns and components that reduce delivery effort across projects
- Contribute governance input and design artefacts that raise the bar for the wider practice
Achieve consistent and positive vendor outcomes
- Provide technical leadership and design review on vendor-delivered integration projects
- Ensure externally built solutions meet Powerco standards for security, maintainability and supportability
- Support project teams through design reviews, testing and deployment activities
To be successful in this role, you will need:
Experience
- 7+ years in integration, software engineering or enterprise application delivery
- Delivering enterprise integrations in complex environments
- Working within agile delivery teams
- Engaging business stakeholders, architects and external vendors
- Leading technical delivery and mentoring engineers
Technical experience
- Integration platforms: Boomi, SAP BTP Integration Suite, FME or similar
- API design and management
- Event-driven architectures
- Azure integration services
- FME and data integration platforms
- REST and SOAP services
- Messaging and asynchronous integration patterns
- CI/CD and DevOps practices
- Security, authentication and identity integration
- Monitoring, logging and operational support practices
About us
Our purpose is to connect communities. It’s at the heart of everything we do as we serve our customers now and into the future. At Powerco, we’re passionate about doing mahi that keeps over 1.1 million customers connected and enables energy choices as we support Aotearoa on the journey to a low-carbon future.
Ngā Tikanga - Our Way, is what guides us to achieve our purpose and ensures we’re better together, work smarter, proud to be here, and future focused in how we work together with each other, our communities, and industry stakeholders.
📅 Applications close: Monday, 10th August 2026
Our ability to get the best out of people is what sets Powerco apart. We realise that candidates – especially from underrepresented and neurodiverse backgrounds – often won’t apply for roles unless they meet ALL the criteria. We encourage anyone who shares our passion for connecting communities to apply for any role that aligns to your strengths and interests. We will provide a safe space where you can bring your whole self to work and thrive.
If you would benefit from support or adjustments in order to participate equitably in the recruitment process, please phone 0800 769372 or email kiaora@powerco.co.nz