Solution Architect

3 days ago

Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand Kāinga Ora - Homes and Communities Full time
Solution Architect - Auckland, Wellington or Christchurch
  • Join a dedicated team focused on delivering reliable End-User Services and Solutions
  • Grow your career in a collaborative environment, can be based in Auckland, Wellington, or Christchurch
  • Permanent Full-time position $156,839 annum + 5 weeks' annual leave + Suite of benefits

As a Solution Architect, you will design and deliver solutions that align with enterprise architecture standards and advance our digital strategy. You will be responsible for developing solution architectures in end-user-focused domains such as ITSM, ITAM, and ESM, built around our ServiceNow instance. You will also focus on end-user technology solutions, including modern desktop management, collaboration tools, and mobility & telephony. You will identify and evaluate alternative architectures, balancing cost, performance, and scalability. Additionally, you will produce specifications for cloud-based or on-premises components, tiers, and interfaces, translating high-level architectures into detailed, actionable designs using selected services and products.

As part of the End User Services Leadership Team, you will help to guide future services to enable all users.

This role is ideal for someone who is customer-service oriented with a strong background in IT Service management and modern device management.

To be successful in this role you will have:

  • Significant experience in a senior technical role (approximately 3-5 years as a senior engineer or junior solution architect)
  • Bachelor of Science degree in Information Technology, Computer Science (or a related field), or equivalent professional experience
  • Hands-on experience designing and implementing solutions throughout the delivery lifecycle for a complex medium to large organisation
  • Demonstrated experience maintaining design principles and working collaboratively to achieve business outcomes
  • The ability to communicate effectively with both business and technical stakeholders
  • Knowledge of leading industry frameworks and patterns (e.g., COBIT and ITIL)
  • Experience coaching and mentoring technical professionals
  • Technical Leadership mindset and understanding of the role that solution architecture plays to deliver the organisational objectives
  • The ability to combine contextual, conceptual, logical, and physical levels of thinking to achieve solution outcomes
  • Advance Level Technical Certification (ex: Microsoft) - preferred

As a Kāinga Ora - Homes and Communities employee, we want to make sure that you have all the tools and support you need. We want to ensure you are healthy and have work-life balance. We also want to support and grow your personal and career development through on-the-job learning, training courses, secondments, and study opportunities.

At Kāinga Ora, ours is the important responsibility of transforming New Zealand's housing choices, outcomes, and the entire housing sector by creating homes and communities that allow New Zealanders to thrive.

We are passionate about transforming New Zealand for the better. That includes being a trusted partner for Māori and iwi, protecting and enabling their rights, interests, and aspirations under the guidance of Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

We value diversity and are committed to working with each other and our customers in an inclusive and respectful way. We welcome applicants from all walks of life and appreciate the richness of experience that your point of difference brings to the organisation.

Applications close by 6pm on Tuesday 1st Apr 2025.

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