Data Platform Architect

Data Platform Architect – Bank of New Zealand

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Here at BNZ, it's about more than just banking.

We work together in an agile, energising environment to create innovative solutions through our promise "If you can imagine a better future, let's find a way."

Responsibilities

Engage and collaborate with Enterprise Architects responsible for the target state architecture of these platforms.

Engage and collaborate with Solution Architects responsible for solutions driven by change programmes that impact these platforms.

Review and provide feedback on solution architectures and designs that impact these platforms.

Develop, maintain and optimise service design, patterns, standards and reference architectures for these platforms.

Consult with other stakeholders as required, sharing knowledge.

Projects & Work

We are in a transition state where we are hydrating and operationalising our modern data, analytics and reporting platforms while maintaining co-existing heritage platforms.

There is a large programme of change work delivering to our simplification and modernisation goals.

As a Platform Architect you will be straddling both, ensuring that we limit and manage the technical debt that pragmatic tactical approaches required during transition, as well as ensuring we avoid re-creating the "sins of the past" in our new estate.

This is a multi-year programme that is well underway.

You will also be consulting with other Change Programmes that need to supply data to the Modern platform – some of which are also long-running multi-year programmes like our Core Banking Ledger modernisation.

Team Culture & Environment

We have 10+ colleagues in the Architecture – Colleague and Data team.

Open, friendly, opinionated, high-performing thinkers, valuing openness and collaboration.

There is always a lot going on – we focus on top priorities while keeping our pipeline "warm".

Rituals include weekly kick-off, team meetings and quarterly reviews and forward planning.

Management Style

Empathy, openness, genuine commitment to empowering others.

Supports a supportive environment where team members feel trusted and encouraged to contribute their best.

Promotes collaboration, innovation, clear priorities.

Balanced performance bar, strong partnerships, and amplified collective impact.

Required Technical Skills

Platform service design and patterns

Technical standards for shared infrastructure

Platform capability roadmaps

Developer experience and tooling strategy

Platform reference architectures

Cross-platform integration patterns

Platform NFRs (security, scalability, reliability patterns)

Platform service catalogue and documentation

Technologies you need to be familiar with :

Snowflake

Airflow

AstroCloud

Alation

FiveTran

Confluent Kafka

PowerBI (enterprise)

Various SQL warehouses

Hadoop

Informatica

WhereScape Red

SAS

Attributes for Success

We're seeking a visionary Platform Architect to co-lead the in-flight design and evolution of our platform services and infrastructure patterns.

You'll play a pivotal role in aligning platform capabilities with enterprise strategy, shaping developer experience, and ensuring non-functional requirements like security, scalability, and reliability are met.

The ideal candidate brings deep technical expertise, strategic mindset, collaborative approach, works seamlessly across Enterprise and Solution Architecture, run teams to enable consistent high-quality delivery, champions platform standards and governance.

Why Join Us?

This is an exciting opportunity to join a bold, innovative organisation that values culture and customer experience.

We offer wellbeing, flexible working, generous leave, growth, learning, and career development.

Closing Date : 07 November

Applications will be reviewed regularly.

We reserve the right to close early.

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