About Us: At Seequent, we help organisations to understand the underground, giving the confidence to make better decisions faster. We build world-leading technology that is at the forefront of Earth sciences, transforming the way our customers work. Every day we help them develop critical mineral resources more sustainably, design and build better infrastructure, source renewable energy, and reduce their impact on the environment. We operate in 145+ countries while proudly maintaining headquarters in New Zealand. The Role  Reporting to the Director, Software Development, Geoscience, this role leads one or more teams delivering scalable, secure, and high-quality software solutions in Geophysics. The role translates strategic objectives into actionable plans while balancing technical leadership, people management, and cross-functional collaboration to drive engineering excellence and continuous improvement. In this role, you will have the opportunity to: Build and guide high-performing teams of experienced technical professionals through hiring, mentoring, career development, and performance management. Foster an engineering culture centered on ownership, reliability, collaboration, agility, and engineering excellence. Translate strategic goals into actionable software development roadmaps, balancing innovation, technical debt, and business continuity. Collaborate with architects, cloud infrastructure, SRE, security, application, Product Management, and Product Design teams to align delivery across functions and development centres. Monitor resourcing, capability, and critical people dependencies, and plan measures to mitigate future risks. Embed security, compliance, high availability, disaster recovery readiness, and SRE practices including SLAs, SLOs, and incident response into team delivery. Contribute to engineering strategy, future capacity, investment, scalability, and long-term technical direction. Lead continuous improvement initiatives that enhance developer experience and operational efficiency, including adoption of generative AI productivity tools across technology functions. Coordinate responses to escalated technical support issues and, where required, manage third-party software vendor and contractor relationships, contracts, statements of work, and milestones. To be successful in this role, you should have:  10 or more years of demonstrated software engineering experience, including at least 3 years leading a team directly or indirectly. Experience with agile development methodologies. Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to establish clear communication practices and performance expectations across teams and stakeholders. Ability to translate functional strategies into actionable plans and oversee initiatives that directly impact team and job-area performance. Ability to apply logical analysis and prior experience to resolve moderately complex challenges and improve systems and processes. In-depth practical knowledge of organizational practices and policies, with experience applying new skills and tools to support team and business goals. Ability to work flexibly across global time zones and provide occasional Tier 3 after-hours support. Ability to travel minimally, approximately 1-2 weeks per quarter. Additional Information Hybrid Work from the local office 2 days a week Posting Close Date: 11/17/2026 #LI-KV2 Our Commitment to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion At Seequent, we champion the uniqueness of each individual. Our commitment to inclusiveness, equity, and accessibility is fundamental to who we are. If you require accommodation during our recruitment process, please let our Talent Acquisition team know. We are here to ensure a fair opportunity for all. Research underscores that some individuals, especially women and underrepresented groups, may hesitate to apply for roles if they don't meet every requirement. Please don't count yourself out if you don’t tick every box. We are committed to hiring a diverse team and encourage individuals of all background and abilities to apply. Thank you for considering us as your potential employer; we're excited to see what you can bring to our team! Benefits of being a Seequenteer and why you’ll love being on our team. We aspire to be pioneers of positive change in the way organisations work with the underground. We work collaboratively, stay curious, make change happen and have a global impact. We bring our authentic selves to work and are enthusiastic about what we do. Plus, you can expect great benefits; these benefits are unique to each location Seequent resides in. Please ask your Talent Acquisition Specialist. If this posting gets you excited about joining Seequent please apply now! For more information about everything Seequent, please visit Seequent.com. Equal Opportunity Employer: Seequent (Bentley) is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, pregnancy, protected veteran status, religion, national origin, age, genetic information or any other protected characteristic. This commitment extends to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, placement, promotion, compensation, and training. Know Your Rights as an applicant under the law. Seequent (Bentley) Policy on EEO, Affirmative Action and Pay Transparency Non-Discrimination Seequent (Bentley) participates in e-Verify / Seequent (Bentley) participate in e-Verify / Right to Work Notice Request an Accommodation: As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Seequent is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. We encourage you to request a reasonable accommodation if you are not able to fully use or access our online application system. You can make an accommodation request by sending us an email at [email protected]. At Seequent, you’ll be a pioneer of positive change in the way organizations work with the underground, helping global customers find technology solutions to the biggest challenges of our time. Introduce yourself to our recruiters and we'll get in touch if there's a role that seems like a good match. At Seequent, The Bentley Subsurface Company, we build world-leading technology at the forefront of earth sciences, helping organisations understand the underground.

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