Senior Consultant

**General information**: - Location - Auckland - Expertise - Consulting, Design, Technology - Job Level - Experienced - Employment Type - Permanent full-time - Close Date - 31-Oct-2025 - Ref # - 62444 **Description & Requirements**: **Spark NZ** - As New Zealand's largest telecommunications and digital services company, Spark's purpose is to help all of New Zealand win big in a digital world. We provide mobile, broadband, and digital services to millions of New Zealanders and thousands of New Zealand businesses. - We operate in an exciting and constantly evolving industry, where the pace of change brings new and unique challenges every day, so we operate using Agile ways of working to allow us to meet the fast-changing needs of our customers. Agile replaces the traditional hierarchical organisational structure to produce a transparent, collaborative environment with highly productive teams who are empowered to deliver better outcomes for our customers, communities, and all of New Zealand. **About the Role**: As a Senior Technical Consultant, you will be a key resource for customer-facing projects of varying size and complexity. Your ability to navigate and integrate across multiple technology domains including **modern work,** i**dentity and access management, compliance (Microsoft Purview)**, and cloud platforms such as Azure will be critical to your success in this role. You will be responsible for technology design and architecture across these domains, providing end-to-end technical leadership, ownership, and expertise. You may also be involved in pre-sales engagements and will carry out requirements gathering, analysis, and hands-on technical tasks as part of project delivery. Your insights and guidance will ensure the delivery of high-quality consultancy and trusted advice to your customers Collaboration is key to this role. You will work closely with the wider Professional Services team and other teams within Spark to deliver customer value, and coordinate with other internal and customer teams, including project management and operational resources. At times, you will act as the technical lead on larger engagements, managing a broader technical team to ensure successful outcomes and the achievement of project objectives **Day to day you will be involved in**: - Providing trusted technical advice and consultancy to clients as part of both sales and project engagements. - Preparing high-quality technical proposals, design documents, and statements of work. - Translating complex technical solutions into clear, business-focused language for stakeholders. - Analysing requirements, designing solutions, and overseeing delivery to ensure client outcomes are met. - Building and maintaining strong relationships with clients and vendors to support opportunities in the sales cycle. - Staying up to date with technology and industry trends to shape Spark’s products and services. - Conducting QA and peer reviews of technical deliverables to maintain quality standards. - Collaborating with colleagues across Professional Services and other Spark Teams. - Contributing to process improvements and best practices within Professional Services. **What experience you'll bring?** - 5+ years designing and delivering complex modern work, security, or cloud solutions, ideally within a managed services or consulting environment. - Strong technical writing and documentation skills (e.g. proposals, designs, RFP responses). - Proficient across cloud and on-premises infrastructure, especially Microsoft technologies. - Skilled communicator, comfortable leading workshops, presentations, and client discussions. - Customer-focused with strong consultative, analytical, and problem-solving ability. - Relevant industry certifications (or equivalent hands-on experience) - **Identity & Access Management** - Strong knowledge of Microsoft Entra ID for cloud and hybrid identity, Conditional Access, MFA, Zero Trust security, and governance tools like PIM. - **Cloud Platforms & Automation** - Working knowledge of Microsoft Azure (VMs, storage, networking, monitoring), basic awareness of AWS/Google Cloud, and scripting/automation skills with PowerShell and Graph API. Understanding of Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, ARM/Bicep) and DevOps practices is valued. - **Additional Skills** - Exposure to Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI), Microsoft Teams & Voice, Exchange & migration projects, and enterprise mobility solutions beyond Microsoft (e.g., VMware Workspace ONE). **WHY CHOOSE US**: **Diversity and Inclusion: Te Kanorau me te Whakawhāiti mai** - At Spark, we are constantly looking for ways to build a more inclusive culture. Our vision is for diversity and inclusion to be "how things are done at Spark", embedded into our day-to-day activities, standards, and business practices. We want you to feel totally comfortable bringing your whole self to work regardless of your gender, ethnicity, orientation, age, or ability.