Cloud Solution Architect for National Education Impact

New Zealand Government; Wellington; On-site; NZD 119,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Continuous learning

Professional development

KiwiSaver

Job summary

New Zealand Government's Ministry of Education seeks an experienced Cloud Solution Architect to shape the future of technology across our Digital & Data team. You will design secure, scalable cloud solutions with AWS and/or Azure, guiding architecture across data ingestion, storage, processing and delivery platforms.

You will partner with stakeholders, engineers and delivery partners, drive data quality, CI/CD patterns, and cost optimisation, and contribute to enterprise architecture standards.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and delivering cloud-based solutions in large organisations.
• Strong knowledge of AWS and/or Azure services, patterns and best practices.
• Experience developing architecture artefacts, roadmaps and documentation.
• Understanding of integration, security, networking and data concepts.
• Experience in Agile and DevOps delivery environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end data architecture across ingestion, transformation, storage and consumption on AWS.
• Define architecture standards, patterns and ETL/ELT implementations.
• Lead design for migrations to modern AWS stack and new data products.
• Contribute to data quality frameworks with automated testing and alerting.
• Design tagging strategy for data classification and privacy.
• Contribute to Infrastructure as Code standards and review changes for cost and security.
• Drive cost optimisation and performance tuning for Redshift and Glue.
• Lead CI/CD architecture pattern design.

Skills

AWS & Azure

Solution architecture

Data architecture

Security & identity

Networking concepts

Agile & DevOps

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Tertiary IT/CS/Engineering degree

Tools

AWS

Azure

CloudFormation

Terraform

AWS CDK

Job description

New Zealand Government's Ministry of Education seeks an experienced Cloud Solution Architect to shape the future of technology across our Digital & Data team. You will design secure, scalable cloud solutions with AWS and/or Azure, guiding architecture across data ingestion, storage, processing and delivery platforms.

You will partner with stakeholders, engineers and delivery partners, drive data quality, CI/CD patterns, and cost optimisation, and contribute to enterprise architecture standards.