Kaihanga Tumuaki

Play your part in contributing to meaningful outcomes, About Aotearoa, for Aotearoa - data that improves lives today and for generations to come
- A re-imagined role that focuses on shaping the enterprise to realise strategic outcomes and deliver customer value.
- Leading the creation and evolution of the enterprise design for the organisation, coordinating across the executive leadership, senior leadership, and senior designers to deliver and accepted view of what's needed to achieve change.
- Developing and leading design practice for organisation transformation that is focused on delivering sustainable customer value that is centred around data and the services needed to achieve this.

This role will suit a person with a strong design and interpersonal skills, and a person that has achieved success in helping an organisation understand and change the way it works. You will be working as part of a team of experts, so there will be opportunity for an interchange of skills and experience.

Flexible starting time frame: we understand your commitment to outcomes in the role you currently have, and will work with you on a start date that meets both our needs.

**Mōu | For you**

Tatauranga Aotearoa Stats NZ are dedicated to diversity, equity, inclusion, health and wellbeing. We welcome every gender, ethnicity, ability, religion, age 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)
- Contribute to meaningful work that makes a difference to all people in Aotearoa
- 3 extra annual leave days (taken during Christmas office closure), see careers site for other benefits and networks
- City based offices that cater to a variety of working styles and needs
- State or the art, brand new 6-star green building in Wellington

**Te tūnga | The role**

Principal Architect - Enterpise Design reports to the Chief Enterprise Architect, and supports them in delivering the enterprise design for the organisation, ensuring the organisation has the design information and associated assurance profile needed to inform investment and guide and govern transformational change effectively.

This re-envisioned role encompasses a design approach focused on shaping the organisation for achieving strategic outcomes. This will require promoting the design thinking needed to create customer value that centres around data, information products, and the services needed to deliver these.

In your key strategic leadership role, you will support and advise the Chief Enterprise Architect in their engagement with the Executive Leadership Team and the Senior Leadership Team.

The use of international enterprise design perspectives and best practices will be an important aspect of how this work is achieved.

**Nōu te rourou | What you bring**

We encourage and consider transferable skills and experience gained from your current and previous roles, and even outside of work e.g., cultural, community work, 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?
- Your experience working taking a design led approach within complex enterprise environments and successfully designing for change.
- Leading collaboratively across executive and senior leadership within an organisation to deliver agreed design outcomes.
- Providing assurance on the feasibility and viability of enterprise designs to leadership and internal and external stakeholders, including traceability of strategic alignment to outcomes.
- Governance and management of enterprise design, for example providing transparency on and escalation of design risks, issues, and alignment to strategy.
- Provision of advice to leadership, internal and external stakeholders on enterprise design and implementation options and their trade-off's.
- Leading and stewarding design practice and design management capability across an organisation.
- Interpersonal skills and ability to liaise and collaborate effectively at all levels of the organisation, and ability to build and maintain strategic relationships.
- 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 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 and lead.
- Understanding of the machinery of government and related processes and procedures.

The Position Description contains more detail on the role's scope and expectations.

**Ko mātou |About Us**