Head of Architecture and Design

4 weeks ago


Auckland City, New Zealand Vector NZ Full time

Head of Architecture and Design
- Full-time
- Engagement type: Permanent - Employee
- Department: IT/Digital

**About Us**
If you love working with a diverse group of people who are all about putting the customer at the centre and enabling choice, you’ve found the right company. The energy sector is transforming at a rate of knots and we want you to join us and be part of this exciting transformation that is having an impact on our society, our environment, and our future.

We created the advanced metering category in New Zealand and manage over two million advanced electricity and gas meters across NZ and Australia providing data services to our customers. This near ‘real-time’ delivery of big data is enabling new and innovative retail products that give customers large and small the ability to make smarter decisions.

**About the role**

Our new Joint Venture company is hiring for a Head of Digital Architecture and Design to lead our Architecture team.

As the Head of Architecture and Design, you will define and communicate the architecture vision and roadmap that will deliver strategic business goals and objectives. You will also shape solutions to ensure alignment with the architecture vision you lead, standards and principles and lead Architecture governance and design change control.

**Who we are looking for**

We are seeking someone who brings an entrepreneurial spirit and passion for all things technology and an ability to balance business needs with technical advances. This is a role for a hands on practitioner and leader across the full technology stack.

You are passionate yet pragmatic, and not afraid to take ownership of open-ended problems and drive them to completion.

Welcomes the opportunity to solve complex technical development/design issues the ability to respond to new demands, priorities, and challenges. You will be motivated to create an innovative technology architecture to enable the organisation to compete. You will be comfortable defining functional and non-functional standards and policies across architecture and cyber security domain’s and you will lead the early development of the information security programme.

**What we can offer you**
We love working together to create a new energy future. If you want to be part of an organisation with a real and tangible purpose, Vector could be the place for you.
We offer
- A fun, flexible and stimulating work environment, full of interesting work being done by smart and innovative people.
- Flexibility, including the choice of working from home a couple of days a week, and flexible start and finish times so you can balance work and life.
- Health and wellbeing support
- Great benefits that reflect the importance of family.

Vector engages a workforce made up of people and teams with diverse skills, values, backgrounds, and experiences. We respect and value people who are different from each other, including gender, ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation, race, and religion. We are proud of what we have achieved so far, why wouldn’t you want to work here
- First corporate Living Wage Accredited employer
- First Accessibility Tick employer
- Rainbow Tick accredited
- Winner of three gongs at the 2019 Diversity Awards NZ, including the Supreme Award in 2019 and 2020.

Applications will close 3 July 2023



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