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We’re scaling with intent, driving an incredible growth trajectory with innovation and customer impact at the heart of everything we do. With operations across New Zealand, Australia, Asia, Africa, the USA, Canada, and Europe and exports to over 140 countries we’re building globally focused career pathways right here in New Zealand.\nAs we expand our Hamilton-based teams, this is your chance to be part of a true Kiwi tech success story making a global impact. If you’re driven by passion and purpose to protect what matters most, come help shape the future of what’s possible with us.\n About the Role\nGallagher Security's Cloud Services Value Stream is evolving, and we're looking for a Software Engineering Lead to lead the engineering team behind AccessNow, one of our cloud-based security solutions.\nThis is an opportunity to take ownership of engineering leadership for an established product, combining technical direction, people leadership and accountability for delivering secure, reliable and high-quality software.\nReporting to the Principle Engineer and working closely with Product, Architecture and Quality, you'll help shape the technical direction of AccessNow, strengthen engineering practices and build a high-performing team that can deliver confidently as the product evolves.\nIn this role, you’ll:\nLead a defined engineering discipline within the AccessNow squad, providing technical direction across design, architecture, delivery, risk, quality, and lifecycle considerations\n\nTake accountability for engineering delivery, ensuring work is well planned, risks and dependencies are managed, and commitments are delivered predictably.\n\nBuild engineering capability through coaching, mentoring, clear expectations, constructive feedback, development planning, and career support\n\nPartner closely with Product, UX/UI Design, Architecture, Platform, DevOps, Security, and engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable, and high-quality solutions\n\nHelp teams make sound technical decisions while balancing delivery, quality, risk, cost, compliance, and long-term maintainability\n\nChampion continuous improvement, modern engineering practices, automation, standards, and team effectiveness\n\nAbout You\nYou’re an experienced engineering leader, or a senior engineer ready to step further into leadership. You bring strong engineering judgement, curiosity, and the confidence to guide others through technical decisions, delivery priorities, and change.\nYou’ll enjoy leading through ambiguity, making work visible, removing blockers, and helping teams deliver predictably while creating an environment where engineers can grow and do their best work.\nYou’re collaborative, clear in your communication, and comfortable influencing across technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nIdeally, you’ll bring:\nStrong full-stack engineering experience, with deep technical expertise in a core discipline and the ability to work across related systems and technologies\n\nExperience leading, coaching, mentoring, and developing engineers through clear expectations, feedback, and support\n\nThe ability to balance technical excellence with delivery, quality, risk, cost, compliance, and long-term maintainability\n\nClear communication, strong collaboration skills, and the ability to influence across varied stakeholder groups\n\nA continuous improvement mindset and curiosity about new tools, automation, standards, engineering practices, and industry trends\n\nWorking at Gallagher\nAt Gallagher, we foster a collaborative, innovative environment where continuous improvement is how we work. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to directly influence the architecture, design, development and delivery of the AccessNow product and supporting services and platforms. You’ll work alongside passionate product, UX, platform and engineers in a culture that values curiosity, trust, practical problem solving and balance so you can thrive both professionally and personally.\nWe also offer:\nCompetitive salary and bonuses\n\nHybrid flexibility (minimum 3 days in the office a week, with additional onsite days required depending on work demands)\n\nKiwiSaver on-top and Life and Disability insurance\n\nMentorship and professional development opportunities\n\nA supportive team culture with team-building events, and a fun environment\n\nGrowth at Gallagher is constant, and we are building our team with like-minded individuals who relate to our story so that together we can continue to push the boundaries of what is possible.\nApplications will be reviewed as they are received and an appointment to the position may be made prior to the listing closing - so apply now.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5101,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Professional development"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"New Zealand","iso":"NZ","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Electrical Equipment & Cables","Access Control & Alarm Systems"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-16T12:09:20Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":27,"reasons":["conf:3","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-17T05:46:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/gallagher-software-engineer-lead","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/gallagher-software-engineer-lead.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-17T09:07:10Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":12010,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-18T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":50149},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=50149"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fgallagher-software-engineer-lead"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fgallagher-software-engineer-lead"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fgallagher-software-engineer-lead"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/gallagher-software-engineer-lead\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fgallagher-software-engineer-lead"}]}