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Our Why  Datacom works with organisations and communities across Australia and New Zealand to make a difference in people’s lives and help organisations use the power of tech to innovate and grow.  About the Role (your why)  The Senior Design Technologist role sits at the intersection of design systems thinking and engineering delivery. Working closely with design leadership, researchers, and engineering teams, you’ll own the technical implementation of the design system and help ensure it remains the single source of truth across the organisation.  You’ll be responsible for building and maintaining scalable component libraries, design tokens, UX guidelines, and production-ready UI components that enable efficient and consistent product delivery. This role combines strong front-end engineering capability with deep design systems knowledge, helping bridge the gap between validated design decisions and working code.  You’ll also contribute to the evolution of tooling, automation pipelines, and AI-augmented workflows that improve delivery velocity and support scalable product development practices.  Our offices are based across New Zealand. The core team is based in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, so these are our preferred locations. We like to bring people together in person when we can, but we are mindful of the benefits of working from home for work/ life balance. We therefore leave it to you and the team you join to figure out what works best!  What you’ll do  At the moment, as Senior Design Technologist you will be focused on:  Owning and maintaining the design system as the single source of truth for components, patterns, interaction flows, and UX guidelines  Building and maintaining production-ready UI components and scalable front-end patterns  Encoding design decisions including design tokens, interaction patterns, accessibility requirements, and layout rules into structured, reusable systems  Creating and maintaining clear, structured documentation for designers, engineers, and AI-assisted tooling  Building and maintaining automation pipelines and tooling that translate design decisions into working code  Ensuring front-end code quality, accessibility compliance (WCAG), performance, and standards alignment  Partnering with engineering teams to support seamless integration between design system outputs and build processes  Evolving the design system based on customer feedback, user insights, and research outcomes  Contributing technical expertise to design and pattern governance discussions  Evaluating emerging workflows, front-end technologies, AI tooling, and design-to-code capabilities to improve delivery efficiency  Sharing knowledge and capability across teams to support scalable adoption of the design system  Maintaining a high standard of visual craft and interaction quality as products scale  Contributing to standardised approaches, tooling, and processes that support best practice across the design system discipline  We are an pretty agile company, and are keen to respond to customer, technology and internal stakeholders’ changing requirements and this can mean we evolve in our roles to meet those needs.  What you’ll bring  Required experience:  5+ years’ experience across UI/visual design and/or front-end development  Demonstrated experience building and maintaining design systems or component libraries at scale  Strong front-end development skills across HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, and modern frameworks such as React  Strong knowledge of design systems, token architecture, component APIs, and documentation standards  Experience translating design decisions into production-quality front-end code  Familiarity with modern tooling such as Figma, Story