Cloud Solution Architect – Transform NZ Education (Wellington)

Kumaravine - Celebrating Māori & Pasifika success; Wellington; On-site; NZD 119,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

KiwiSaver

Flexible working

Professional development

Job summary

Ministry of Education is seeking an experienced Cloud Solution Architect to join the Digital & Data team and lead secure, scalable cloud solutions across NZ's education system. You will work with stakeholders, engineers, and product teams to shape platform modernization and data architecture in an enterprise environment.

This role offers flexible working, ongoing professional development, and a pathway to influence government technology strategies.

Qualifications

• Experience designing cloud-based solutions for large organisations.
• Strong knowledge of AWS and/or Azure.
• Experience delivering architecture artefacts and roadmaps.
• Understanding of integration, security, networking, and data concepts.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

AWS

Azure

Data architecture

CI/CD

DevOps

Stakeholder engagement

Security & compliance

Education

Tertiary qualification in IT/CS/Engineering

Tools

AWS CloudFormation

AWS CDK

Terraform

dbt

Job description

Ministry of Education is seeking an experienced Cloud Solution Architect to join the Digital & Data team and lead secure, scalable cloud solutions across NZ's education system. You will work with stakeholders, engineers, and product teams to shape platform modernization and data architecture in an enterprise environment.

This role offers flexible working, ongoing professional development, and a pathway to influence government technology strategies.