Technical Architect Lead

**Technical Architect Lead**
**Te Puni Rangatōpū** | Corporate
**Te Puni Kōkiri** | The Ministry of Māori Development

**Location: Te Tari Matua, Pōneke** | National Office, Wellington

Te Puni Kōkiri is the government's principal policy advisor on Māori wellbeing and development. We achieve strategic influence with a focus on providing high quality policy advice and holding other agencies to account for delivering public services to, for, and with Māori. This includes our mandate to promote Māori achievement in education, training, health and economic resource development along with performing our monitoring and mentoring roles.

Our Information Systems directorate ensures we have access to reliable, secure technology and that kaimahi can use technology to support their mahi in a safe, effective way.

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Technical Architect Lead to join us - one with the confidence to represent us in cross agency forums and the technical knowledge that we require.

**Te whai wāhitanga | The opportunity**

Reporting to the General Manager, Information Systems this kaiamhi is there at the start of a project and remains involved throughout the project lifecycle until it is completed. Agile in approach, the Technical Architect Lead focuses on:

- ** Stakeholder Engagement.**Engaging with our partners and suppliers and providing technical leadership across Te Puni Kōkiri through a business partnering approach.
- ** Emerging Technologies.** Introducing, planning and implementing new, upcoming technologies as part of our long-term strategy.
- ** Solutions Architecture.**Developing solution architectures in specific areas ensuring the right tools are available to and used in architecture development.
- ** Systems Design.**Developing organisational policies and driving adoption of and adherence to these. Leads system design programmes for strategic, large, complex systems development programmes, including effective implementation and procurement.

**Mōu | About you**

A technology specialist you should have extensive knowledge of Microsoft cloud-based technologies, (Including M365/D365 and Azure) and be able to take complex information and explain this to a range of technical and non-technical stakeholders. We are looking for someone who:

- Possesses the key skills as outlined in the Position Description, including current knowledge and experience of technology strategy and architecture, and the systems used within the public sector.
- Looks for opportunity and seeks out further learning. Optimising services, looking for efficiencies and considering upcoming emerging technologies are strengths of yours.
- Takes a business partner, solutions-based approach to solving problems, providing advice and making things happen.
- Is resilient. Can handle multiple, time sensitive tasks at once, with the ability to multitask, handle pressure and troubleshoot quickly and accurately.
- Is comfortable working in an ao Māori environment and in situations where tikanga is observed. Having some knowledge of and/or the willingness to learn te reo Māori.

**Tāu e whai ai | What you will get in return**

Te Puni Kōkiri is a diverse and rewarding working environment full of passionate people focussed on creating solutions that will help our communities. We are guided by our values of te wero, manaakitanga, he toa takitini and ture tangata.

There is more to life than just work and we encourage our staff to maintain the right balance between work and personal pursuits. We recognise that a healthy workforce is a productive one so we're committed to providing opportunities and incentives for our employees to look after themselves, including:

- Optical allowance
- Hauora allowance
- Te Reo Māori proficiency allowance
- Provide enhanced parental leave provisions and childcare allowances.

**Te Puni Kōkiri | Ministry of Māori Development**

Te Puni Kōkiri is committed to our vision of 'Whānau Taurikura' - 'Thriving Whānau'. We consider that when whānau are thriving, so do their communities, hapū, iwi and all of Aotearoa. This underpins everything we do.

Our people are at the heart of achieving this vision and it is our people who contribute to supporting Māori collective success. They do this by creating and maintaining relationships with iwi, hapū and whānau Māori and government at both a local and national level. It is this that enables Māori participation and success as Māori, and it is our people who will create a future where all whānau can thrive.

Ka akiākina koe kia tukuna mai tō tononga i tēnei rangi tonu, kia whakapāngia rānei tētahi Ringa Taritari e kōrero ai mō ngā painga o tēnei whai wāhitanga, me tōna hāngai ki ō whāinga ā-umanga. Nau mai rā ko ngā tononga i te reo Māori, te reo Pākehā, te reorua rānei, ka mutu, e kore tō kōwhiringa reo e whai pānga kino ki tō tononga ahakoa te aha. Ka tirohia ai e mātou ngā tononga katoa, ka mutu, kite ana mātou i te tangata tika rawa atu, ka whakatūngia ko ia.