Senior Director, Technology & Engineering ANZ

Senior Director, Technology & Engineering, ANZ

• Shape Zip’s next chapter of engineering excellence by bringing deep application architecture experience, hands-on technical leadership, and modern developer enablement to life.
• Lead a central technology function that sets the strategy, standards, and tooling to help every engineer at Zip build faster, safer and smarter.
• Hybrid working with team connect days in our Sydney office

Write your story with a career at Zip

Join Zip’s Technology function, responsible for building and maintaining seamless, secure and sustainable platforms that enable customers to shop with confidence and merchant partners to grow their brands.

As the Senior Director, Technology & Engineering, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the way engineering happens at Zip. Reporting to the CIO ANZ, this role leads a central enablement and standards function spanning Security, Quality Engineering, DevOps and Site Reliability, while working closely with product engineering teams to define and deliver modern application architecture, tooling and developer experience across Zip.

You’ll bring the technical leadership, credibility and system-level thinking needed to influence at scale, governing Zip’s architectural frameworks, uplifting engineering maturity, and embedding reusable patterns, golden paths and cloud-based automation that make life easier for our engineers.

What you’ll own

• Shape and deliver Zip’s technology and engineering strategy across architecture, automation, CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling.
• Lead and empower specialist teams across Security, Quality Engineering, SRE and DevOps to create reusable frameworks and scalable, cloud-native solutions that uplift delivery velocity.
• Partner with Product Engineering and Architecture to define Zip’s target state application architecture, ensuring alignment and consistency across platforms.
• Drive continuous improvement in developer experience, standardisation and automation through intelligent use of AI, modern frameworks and self-service tooling.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership across system design, code quality and engineering disciplines, balancing strategic influence with practical application.
• Champion secure and resilient engineering practices that support safe, scalable delivery and cloud (AWS) excellence.
• Mentor future technology leaders, fostering a culture of accountability, innovation and collaboration across Zip’s engineering community.

What you'll bring to the team

• Career built in software engineering and architecture as well as technology leadership, ideally with experience as a Principal Engineer, CTO or similar.
• Deep technical expertise in system and application architecture, design patterns and modern software engineering practices.
• Proven experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines, engineering frameworks and developer tooling that accelerate delivery and quality.
• A strong understanding of cloud-native design and AWS, with the ability to create “golden paths” that enable fast, secure and consistent delivery.
• Exceptional ability to influence and inspire engineers through credible, hands-on technical leadership.
• Track record of uplifting engineering maturity and fostering a high-trust, high-performance culture across diverse technical teams.
• Experience leading Security, SRE, Quality or DevOps functions a plus, but a passion for empowering software engineers is essential.
• A mindset that embraces AI and new tools to adapt, learn and grow.
• An aptitude for identifying and managing risks. Whether you are a People Manager or an Individual Contributor, we are all leaders at Zip, therefore effective risk management is important to how we run our business and part of all our roles.
• Our values in your DNA: Customer First, Own It, Stronger Together and Change the Game

What you’ll get in return

As we write this next exciting chapter in our story, we will continue to move at pace and embrace change. For you, this might mean opportunities to learn new skills with hands-on experience, broader responsibilities, or the buzz of seeing your work impact customers faster.  

Zip is a place where you’ll get out exactly what you put in. When you join the team, we'll do our best to make sure you can be yourself and surround yourself with smart, friendly colleagues and leaders who have your back, so that you can make the big things happen.

Zipsters tell us these are just some of the best things about working here. You’ll also receive:

• 25 days paid leave annually, including birthday leave and quarterly wellbeing days
• 16 weeks paid parental leave for primary carers, and 4 weeks for supporting carers
• Family support policies including miscarriage bereavement leave and domestic violence leave
• Mental health and wellness initiatives, including $299 annual wellbeing allowance, free access for you and family members to our EAP service Sonder, discounted private health insurance and great rates on fitness sessions through ClassPass
• Access the Flare Benefits Hub & Novated Leasing: Save on groceries, fuel, tech, fashion, dining and more, with exclusive health perks, wellbeing guidance and potential tax savings on car ownership.
• 2 days paid volunteering leave per year
• Fee-free Zip products, and discounts with Zip merchant partners 
• Team social events, epic offices, free breakfast daily, and weekly free lunches

Be a part of a team that reflects the diversity of our customers

We pride ourselves on being a workplace that provides equal opportunities to people of all ages, cultural backgrounds, sexual orientations, gender identities, abilities, veteran status, and everything else that makes you unique.

Equally, we’re committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive. Please let us know If there are any adjustments that need to be made to ensure you have a fair and equitable experience.

And finally…get to know us

Zip Co Limited (ASX: ZIP) is a digital financial services company, offering innovative, people-centred products that bring customers and merchants together.

Operating in two core markets - Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) and the US, Zip offers point-of-sale credit and digital payment services, connecting millions of customers with its global network of tens of thousands of merchants.

We’re proud to be a values-led business and our values - Customer First, Own it, Stronger Together and Change the Game - guide us in everything we do.

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