Cloud Solution Architect — Data & Platform Modernisation

NZ Ministry of Education

Wellington

On-site

NZD 119,000 - 145,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Job summary

NZ Ministry of Education in Wellington is seeking an experienced Cloud Solution Architect to lead cloud architecture across data platforms and integration projects. You will partner with stakeholders, product teams, engineers, and security specialists to design secure, scalable cloud solutions that align with enterprise standards and government requirements.

The role focuses on platform modernisation, cloud adoption, data product design, and infrastructure as code patterns within New Zealand’s

Qualifications

Experience designing and delivering cloud-based solutions in large, complex organisations.
Strong knowledge of AWS and/or Azure, architecture patterns, and best practices.
Experience creating architecture artefacts, design docs, and roadmaps.
Understanding of integration, security, identity, networking, and data concepts.
Experience in Agile and DevOps delivery environments.
Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
Relevant tertiary qualification in IT, CS, or engineering.

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end data architecture design across ingestion, transformation, storage, and consumption layers on AWS (S3, Glue, Lambda, Step Functions, Redshift, dbt).
Define architecture standards, patterns, enhancements, and implementations for ETL/ELT pipelines, including backup and restore strategies.
Lead technical design for migrations and new data products (e.g., migrating legacy SQL Server towards a modern AWS stack).
Contribute to the design of data quality frameworks including automated testing and alerting.
Design and enhance a tagging strategy for data classification and private information.
Contribute to design of Infrastructure as Code standards (AWS CloudFormation / AWS CDK / Terraform) and review infrastructure changes for cost, security, scalability.
Drive cost optimisation and help design performance tuning across Redshift/Glue workloads.
Lead the design of CI/CD architecture patterns.