Data Architect

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- We offer hybrid working that enables work life balance + 5 weeks annual leave
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Ka rere a kupu mihi ki te mata o te whenua e tau ai ki tēnā, ki tēnā huri noa - e mihi atu ana. I tēnei wa tonu nei e tonoa ana ō pūkenga nui, ō wheako me ō mōhiotanga kia whakaeke mai ki te waka whakatutuki kaupapa e mea nei ko Te Taurapa Tūhono. Kua takoto te mānuka, ā, tautoko mai, ārahi mai i ngā pakihi hohoko o Aotearoa kia whāia nei ngā pae tawhiti hōu, hihira anō hoki.
To those near and far, greetings to you all. We look forward to you bringing your valuable skills, experience and knowledge to join our team aboard the forever moving waka, Te Taurapa Tūhono | New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE). This is the call, to rise to the occasion, and help guide New Zealand export businesses to exciting new horizons.
Please note - this role is known internally as 'Lead Data Architect' to reflect thought leadership and occasional leadership to contracted architects/vendors and is a permanent role located from either our Auckland, Wellington or Christchurch offices
Who we are - Ko Te Taurapa Tūhono tēneiTe Taurapa Tūhono | New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE) is the government agency charged with helping New Zealand businesses to grow internationally. By supporting New Zealand businesses, we boost New Zealand's economy and reputation, and help to share what's special about New Zealand with the rest of the world.
What you'll be doing - Te whakamahereDue to the growth of our digital and data strategy, we now have a new and exciting opportunity for a Data Architect to join NZTE. As the Data Architect for NZTE, you'll be responsible for creating, maintaining, and communicating the data architecture strategy including developing enterprise-wide standards and high-level information structures and meta models.
The Data Architect roles requires a brilliant combination of technical data expertise and stakeholder relationship engagement expertise. You'll spend approximately 70% of your time on the technical element of this job and the other 30% spent providing guidance, advice and consulting services to stakeholders on the best data practises.

**You'll also be responsible for**:

- Setting the data architectural direction for NZTE, including developing our long-term vision and guiding principles for Data, Information, Knowledge and Analytics based on the direction of our strategy.
- Designing, maintaining, and optimising NZTE's Data Lake, Data Warehouse (e.g. Data Vault 2.0), Data marts (dimensional models, relational models), Data Acquisition, ETL Processes, Data API, Data Analytics, Visualisation and Reporting architecture.
- Driving the solution development and documentation of data solution designs, ensuring that best practise architectural processes are adhered to.
- Providing technical governance and coaching, ensuring that our teams have appropriate architectural guardrails for their work.

What you'll need to be successful | Ō PūkengaYou'll have experience as an Architect, with hands-on experience with working with data at scale, have extensive quantitative research experience and have been responsible for setting the data architectural direction for a mid-sized organisation. You'll have a wide breadth of experience with data modelling, business intelligence and using different data warehouses and data marts environments and won't be afraid to get your hands dirty when required - it will be advantageous if you have a postgraduate or higher qualification in Computer Science, Data Science, Economics, Econometrics, Applied Statistics, or related discipline.
You'll be insightful, proactive, have a curious mindset and bring strong coaching and advising qualities to ensure that we are adhering to best data practices. You'll have a knack of adapting your communication style to your audience and instinctively deliver information and data in a visually interesting way that tells a clear story. This role will see you working across the business and different stakeholders, so having a strong ability to build strong stakeholder relationships is essential.
You'll also have a continuous improvement and a problem-solving mind-set which can be distilled into pragmatic technical requirements and be an advocate for best ways of working. Strong attention to detail is a given in this role, as is the ability to use influencing skills to help coach, advise and bring others along on the journey.
Why you'll love working here - Nau mai ki Te Taurapa TūhonoNZTE is a truly global organisation, giving you a wonderful experience of working with different cultures with over a hundred countries as part of our everyday. We know that life is not all about work and flexible working at NZTE is standard practise. We will give you the right technology to allow