Digital Solution Architect

Start the new year with a bold move to a highly regarded, New Zealand-owned technology company. We offer a creative and stimulating work environment and value and respect inclusivity and diversity.
About this role | Mō tēnei tūranga mahi
Role Overview
As a Digital Solution Architect, you will be at the forefront of driving digital transformation for our clients. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and implement cutting-edge digital solutions that address complex business challenges. You will be involved in cloud and hybrid projects primarily around Microsoft Azure, with a potential for AWS as well. You will bring innovative ideas and a “big picture” perspective to solutions that span different areas. Although an understanding of infrastructure topics and Microsoft 365 services is appreciated, it will not be the focus of this role.
Key Responsibilities
- Customer Engagement: Act as a trusted advisor, understanding customer needs and providing tailored solutions, engaging with both business and technical stakeholders.
- Architectural Leadership: Create functional design specifications and solutions reference architectures, ensuring usage of common well well-architected frameworks.
- Innovation and Problem Solving: Lead the development of innovative solutions and troubleshoot complex cloud or hybrid issues, delivering value for the customers.
- Collaboration: Work closely with internal teams and external partners to deliver comprehensive cloud solutions, ensuring coordination between parties and technical expertise.
- Mentorship: Guide and mentor other architects and engineering staff, fostering a culture of learning and development.

Skills and experience | Ngā pūkenga me ngā wheako
- Excellent customer-facing skills, strong attention to detail and decision-making skills, as well as the ability to communicate clearly and professionally is a must.
- Extensive experience designing and implementing cloud solutions in Microsoft Azure, with solid software architecture experience and a good understanding of infrastructure.
- Strong hands-on skills with a pragmatic style, backed by theory and best practice.
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written skills.
- Ability to identify trends and share them with the wider team to build new offerings.
- Improve productivity and overall technology innovation in the organisation.

**Nice to have**:

- Product and services design experience
- IoT architecture experience
- Hands-on experience with IaC and related tools
- Cybersecurity experience
- Relevant Microsoft certifications
- Experience in non-Microsoft cloud platforms and frameworks

About us | Mō mātou
We have over 25 years of experience as a New Zealand-owned technology consultancy. We take pride in our multicultural and diverse team of circa 300 skilled professionals. Our offices are in Auckland, Tauranga, Wellington, and Christchurch.
Working with clients in both the public and private sectors, we strive to deliver innovative solutions and enable smarter outcomes. Our company attracts some of the brightest minds in the industry, as we foster a culture of excellence and continuous learning.
**Our values are**:

- Our people are our greatest asset.
- We conduct business ethically.
- Invention, imagination and creativity are the foundation for growth.
- We work with positive energy, enjoyment, humour and work/life balance.
- Excellence is our passion and we deliver what we promise - or more
- We strive to take a pragmatic approach to all of our activities
- We value and appreciate our natural environment and seek to play our part to maintain it

Benefits of working at Theta | Ngā hua ka puta i te mahi ki Theta
Theta offers a family friendly work environment with flexible work hours where practical; especially relevant for caregivers. We embrace gender equality and are committed to providing a supportive, diverse and inclusive work environment.
Theta is committed to giving back to the community and are avid supporters of Cure Kids. We compete in various adventure races and do many other things to raise money for Cure Kids. And we make time for the fun things in life
We currently provide the following benefits to ensure your professional development and personal wellbeing:

- Professional growth and learning opportunities
- A competitive salary (commensurate with experience)
- Hybrid working model
- Fully subsidised medical insurance for employees
- Heavily discounted medical insurance for immediate family of employees
- Enhanced parental leave payment - salary top-ups plus return-to-work incentive
- Volunteer days
- Internal Referral Incentive
- Staff Assistance Programme
- Annual Flu injections
- Sick leave from your first day on board
- Remote working options where practical and mutually agreed
- Daily fresh fruit basket, coffee machine, wide selection of teas and biscuits in all of our offices.
- We are also an accredited employer with INZ

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