Cloud Solution Architect — Education Tech Transformation

Ministry of Education New Zealand; Wellington; On-site; NZD 119,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

KiwiSaver

Flexible working

Job summary

The Ministry of Education New Zealand is seeking an experienced Cloud Solution Architect to lead architecture across data, cloud and integration initiatives in a large public sector environment.

You will work with business, product, engineering and security teams to design secure, scalable cloud solutions that align with enterprise standards and government requirements, while enabling platform modernisation and cost efficiency.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and delivering cloud-based solutions in large, complex organisations.
• Strong knowledge of AWS and/or Azure cloud services, architecture patterns and best practices.
• Experience delivering architecture artefacts, design docs, and technical roadmaps.
• Solid understanding of integration, security, networking and data architecture concepts.
• Experience in Agile and DevOps delivery environments.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, communication and influencing skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end data architecture across ingestion, transformation, storage and consumption on AWS stack.
• Define architecture standards, patterns, and implementations for ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Drive migrations and design new data products on modern AWS stack.
• Contribute to data quality frameworks with automated tests and alerting.
• Design and refine a tagging strategy for data classification and privacy."
• Contribute to Infrastructure as Code standards (CloudFormation / CDK / Terraform) and review changes for cost/security/scalability.
• Lead CI/CD architecture patterns and performance tuning for Redshift/Glue workloads.

Skills

AWS

Azure

Data architecture

CI/CD

Security & identity

Agile / DevOps

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Tertiary qualification in IT

Tools

AWS CloudFormation

AWS CDK

Terraform

dbt

Job description

The Ministry of Education New Zealand is seeking an experienced Cloud Solution Architect to lead architecture across data, cloud and integration initiatives in a large public sector environment.

You will work with business, product, engineering and security teams to design secure, scalable cloud solutions that align with enterprise standards and government requirements, while enabling platform modernisation and cost efficiency.