Kaihoahoa Rongoā Manua Senior Solutions Architect

2 days ago


Wellington City, New Zealand New Zealand Government Full time

Mōu | For you
Taturanga Aotearoa Stats NZ are dedicated to diversity, equity, inclusion, health and wellbeing. We welcome every gender, race, ability, religion, and background and encourage people to be their authentic selves.
- Flexible by default, balance life and work commitments
- Develop and grow your career (coaching, training, study support, secondments)
- An environment where we can all be leaders, where your ideas and input are encouraged
- Contribute to meaningful work that makes a difference to all people in Aotearoa
- 3 extra annual leave days (taken during Christmas office closure)
- Free annual flu jab, as well as, a capped subsidy for eye tests and eyewear
- Join various social, network and support groups (toastmasters, multi-cultural, social club)
- City based offices that cater to a variety of working styles and needs
- Permanant role based in Wellington working 37.5 hours per week

Te tūnga | The role
We are currently looking for a Senior Solution Architect to design the remediation of several legacy systems, while ensuring the enterprise strategies and designs are realised. This is a full-time permanent role working 37.5 hours over Monday to Thursday based in Wellington

**In this role you will be responsible for**:

- designing and delivering the enterprise-level solutions using various technologies and platforms both in cloud (Azure) and on-shore, which will lead to remediation of existing processes and systems to provide key national statistics
- translating business and project requirements into technology designs and blueprints
- defining, designing, and implementing complex data infrastructure solutions for our corporate environments
- producing high-level designs, solution option analysis including costing and licencing guidance where needed
- produce solution architecture documentation, review technical designs, and contribute to the continuous improvement of Stats NZ's technology capabilities

You will work collaboratively with multiple DevOps teams to provide direction to assist them implement our vision. You will also work with the wider community of solution architects and enterprise architects growing the effectiveness of our digital services, documentation, and processes.
Your work will be informed by collated technical and functional requirements, customer needs, enterprise architecture, StatsNZ and governmental policy and strategy, legacy systems, operational dependencies and by organisational governance.
Your initial assignment will be to lead initial scoping engagements for key projects in the legacy system remediation programme. The project teams are based in Christchurch, Wellington, and Auckland. You will translate complicated business needs and technologies into coherent solution designs that can be understood by technical and non-technical audiences.
You will be expected to work through the life cycle of multiple projects, navigating complex, often competing requirements to optimise designs, while managing stakeholder expectations. As projects transition from the design phase to operationalising solutions, you will be expected to continue to collaborate identifying risks and security concerns. This is a high priority programme of work, with project delivering an output which benefits a wider range of stakeholders. There is an expectation that you will assist multiple projects in the programme in parallel.
Nōu te rourou | What you bring
We encourage and consider transferable skills and experience gained from outside of work e.g., whanau, church, sports, volunteering, or a comparable role in a different sector or industry.
We want to see the following in your cover letter and CV any information relating to:

- Why Tatauranga Aotearoa - Stats NZ is the place for you, why us, and why Government?
- Any information about your knowledge and experience, or desire to learn and build knowledge and experience of Te Tiriti, Tikanga, Te Reo and Te Ao Māori, and engagement with Māori.
- How you've demonstrated or encouraged diversity and inclusion in and/or outside of work.
- Examples of strong relationships you've built and how and why relationships are important.
- Examples where you've demonstrated leadership, e.g. lifted others up, led by example, demonstrated problem solving, owned a project or piece of work, spoken up for yourself or others.
- Examples where you've shown curiosity and tried new things, taken on other perspectives, challenged the norm, reflected on your own and other's behaviours, attitudes or motivations to learn.
- Where you've demonstrated customer centricity, everyone is a customer mentality, collaborated with others and invited feedback, spent time with diverse people and communities to broaden your views.

Ko mātou | About Us
Tatauranga Aotearoa - Stats NZ is a Central Government employer of around 1400 people across Aotearoa. We provide data and statistical outputs to support the decisions that the Government, Māori and Iwi organisations, busin



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