Senior Solution Architect

Type : Fixed term (9 months)

Hours : Full time

Location : Wellington

Business Group : Te Ara Matihiko / Digital Services and Solutions

Branch : Te Punaha Matihiko / Digital Services

Salary : $145,539 - $181,116

Working at Te Tari Taiwhenua, the Department of Internal Affairs, you'll have the opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of New Zealanders. We are on a journey of building modern digital platforms. We do this by putting customers and their whanau at the heart to deliver services in a more joined up, effective way and provide better response to our customers' changing needs and expectations.

Te Ara Matihiko, Digital Services and Solutions sits within Te Punaha Matihiko, the Digital Services branch, which leads the Department's technology strategy and provide insights and advice to help maximise business outcomes from technology investment. The "Way We Work" is collective, productive, and future-focused.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Solution Architect to provide effective delivery of high-quality solution architectures that are consistent with the Government and DIA's Enterprise Architecture and strategies, across multiple products, domains and platforms to deliver strategic business outcomes, govern solution's execution, with support from the peer architects and wider project teams.

You will be responsible for :

• Translating business strategy, business plans and technology roadmaps into cohesive enterprise, branch and portfolio strategies, roadmaps, and architectures.
• Provide enterprise modelling, solution architecture assurance, reviewing technical architectures, managing architecture standards and promoting technology strategies into ICT portfolio planning.
• Ensuring alignment to business needs, industry good practice, alignment to Te Tari Taiwhenua ICT strategic plans and agreed principles, and optimal use of organisational technology assets and resources.
• Establish, build and maintain strong relationships across the Department and with external stakeholders to achieve trusted advisor status.
• Oversee Enterprise Architecture development, implementation and ongoing refinement activities.
• Share good practice, lessons learned and constantly update skills based on changing technologies, practice, and knowledge.

We need someone who has :

We can offer you a role that will foster your talents within a diverse team of Architects and allow you to work with a range of business units involved in some incredibly interesting changes. We have a well-established collaborative Architecture Practice, we support each other to succeed. If you want to join a team of smart, committed people who do some spectacular work for New Zealand – then make sure you get in touch.

At Te Tari Taiwhenua we are committed to a workplace culture that embraces diversity in all its forms, and enables all our people to have a voice and feel included. We provide a safe working environment, flexible working, have a strong focus on culture and respect for self.

To learn more about the diverse, important mahi we do at Te Tari Taiwhenua and see why we're a great place to work check out our website /

We work to make New Zealand better for New Zealanders through our four outcome areas :

Applications close : 5pm, 8 December

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