Solution Architect

7 months ago

Wellington City, New Zealand New Zealand Government Full time

**Type**: Permanent

**Hours**: Full time Location: Wellington Business Group: Te Ara Matihiko / Technology Services and Solutions Branch: He Pou Aronui / Organisational Capabilities and Services Salary: $119,000 - $161,000
Working at Te Tari Taiwhenua, the Department of Internal Affairs, you'll have the opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of New Zealanders.
Te Ara Matihiko, Technology Services and Solutions sits within He Pou Aronui, the Organisational Capability and Services branch, which leads the Department's technology strategy and provide insights and advice to help maximise business outcomes from technology investment. The "Way We Work" is collective, productive, and future-focused.

**You will be responsible for**:

- Delivery of complex architecture independently or lead and mentor other Solution Architects to implement technologies, and architectures that align to business outcomes, recognised good practice, strategies and agreed principles, and optimal use of organisational technology assets and resources.
- Provide quality assurance to key architecture deliverables and contributes to strategies and roadmaps.
- Establish, build and maintain strong relationships across the Department and with external stakeholders to achieve trusted advisor status
- Ratify solution architectures and designs with relevant governance bodies and senior leaders to gain endorsement on technology choices and fit
- Provide leadership and direction, particularly in relation to workflow and work allocation, to stable product or project teams (including vendors and Te Tari Taiwhenua operational staff) to ensure alignment to frameworks and successful delivery of architectural solutions.
- Stay current with technologies, contribute towards enterprise architecture and ensure continuous improvement within the practice through mentoring, knowledge sharing and training sessions.

**We need someone who has**:

- 3+ years' experience as a solution architect delivering complete solutions from business to the technology layer with a strong architecture background in one or more of the following technical domains: data, software, infrastructure, security, integration, identity, cloud.
- A thorough understanding of Architecture development framework, architecture modelling, principles and good practices, including All-of-Government standards, and producing high quality architecture artifacts.
- Ability to quickly acquire a deep understanding of the complexities of designing solutions in challenging or leading-edge environments.
- Strong analytically, particularly the ability to think "architecturally" about strategy and business environment in DIA and envision the relevant business implications and scenarios.
- Ability to provide technology leadership to architects and technical experts while making architectural decisions.
- Excellent relationship management and audience tuned communication skills - you can work well with a diverse range of stakeholders and build strong relationships

As a return we can offer you an opportunity that will foster your talents within a diverse team of Architects and allow you to work with a range of business units involved in some incredibly interesting changes. We have a well-established collaborative Architecture Practice, we support each other to succeed. If you want to join a team of smart, committed people who do some spectacular work for New Zealand - then make sure you get in touch.
At Te Tari Taiwhenua we are committed to a workplace culture that embraces diversity in all its forms, and enables all our people to have a voice and feel included. We provide a safe working environment, flexible working, have a strong focus on culture and respect for self.
We work to make New Zealand better for New Zealanders through our four outcome areas:

- People can easily access the services and information they need
- Iwi, hapū and communities across New Zealand are safe, resilient and thriving
- People's sense of belonging and collective memory builds an inclusive New Zealand
- New Zealand is a well-functioning democracy across central and local government

We are an equal opportunity employer that values diversity and inclusion. We recognise a diverse workforce contributes to better business outcomes. We are committed to creating a workplace where all employees have equal access.

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