Technology Strategy Lead

Te Whiwhinga mahi | The Opportunity 

This is a pivotal role at a pivotal time. As Technology Strategy Lead, you’ll help shape the future of Contact’s technology landscape, translating strategy into actionable roadmaps that drive our ambitions for decarbonisation and technology transformation. You’ll report into and work closely with our Head of Strategy & Transformation (Technology), engaging with leaders, architects, and subject matter experts to ensure our technology investments and initiatives are aligned and impactful.

What you’ll be doing:

• Leading the development and delivery of one- to five-year technology roadmaps, ensuring strategic alignment and driving innovation.
• Coordinating business demand management, investment planning, risk and dependency management.
• Facilitating workshops and ideation sessions to identify transformation opportunities and drive alignment.
• Acting as a trusted advisor to delivery and operations teams, supporting end-to-end roadmap management.
• Communicating strategy and roadmap updates to stakeholders, partners, and suppliers.
• Supporting operational performance, asset management and helping to build the technical and commercial capability across technology teams.

You’ll have the chance to create and refine roadmaps, drive change leadership, and shape the future technology at Contact. You’ll be at the heart of our Contact strategy, helping to drive the capability growth across the business. No two days will be the same, and you’ll be empowered to experiment, learn, and grow.

You’ll need to align priorities, influence and perform through teams. Navigating competing priorities and driving alignment across diverse stakeholders can be challenging—but you’ll be supported every step of the way.