Kaihoahoa - Otinga Solution Architect

Z Energy NZ; Wellington; On-site; NZD 141,000 - 176,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary NZD

Medical insurance for you and family

KiwiSaver employer contributions

Generous leave provisions and leave +

Hybrid working with office+home

Upskilling opportunities

Good in the Hood volunteering days

Job summary

Z Energy NZ is undergoing a technology and data transformation, seeking a Solution Architect to drive delivery outcomes across Energy Solutions and B2B initiatives. You will shape scalable, secure technology solutions, partner with leaders, product teams and delivery squads, and ensure alignment with broader strategy.

You will bring significant enterprise architecture experience, design end-to-end solutions, and lead across multiple teams in agile environments.

Qualifications

• Significant experience as a Solution Architect within complex enterprise environments.
• Proven ability to design end-to-end technology solutions across applications, integrations, data and cloud platforms.
• Experience supporting large-scale business transformation and technology initiatives.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills and ability to communicate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead solution architecture activities across B2B and Energy Solutions initiatives from ideation through delivery.
• Translate business objectives into technology solutions with clear value and outcomes.
• Create high-level and detailed solution designs balancing value, feasibility, scalability and maintainability.
• Guide technology decisions across applications, integrations, data, platforms and cloud services.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture to align with company strategy and target architectures.
• Provide architectural guidance to delivery teams throughout the implementation lifecycle.

Skills

Solution Architecture

End-to-end design

Cloud platforms

APIs & integrations

Security & governance

Stakeholder engagement

Agile delivery

Job description

Z has a clear purpose: Powering better journeys, today and tomorrow. As one of New Zealand’s largest transport energy companies, we have a commitment to delivering safe, secure, and reliable transport energy – with the opportunity to deliver new journeys, with new energy solutions in a changing world.

We are proud to be the Kiwi contingent in the Ampol Group, an independent Trans-Tasman energy company, with trading offices across the globe, which are united behind our shared purpose. While many of the challenges and opportunities we face go beyond national boundaries, together we have the scale, influence, and capability to deliver for our customers, communities, and our people.

Tech, Digital & Data @ Ampol

As we embark on our digital transformation, we are committed to making Ampol easier to work with and within, enhancing every interaction through innovative solutions.

Our approach is anchored in data-driven decision-making and advanced technology integration, allowing us to create seamless and personalised customer experiences that truly resonate. By prioritizing value-based decisions and outcomes, we ensure that our digital transformation will drive meaningful impact and measurable outcomes.

We are dedicated to empowering our business through technology-enabled differentiation, strengthening our foundations to build sustainable value for the future. Our team thrives on the challenge of innovation—dreaming up big ideas, questioning the norm, and tackling complex problems. Together, we are shaping a future that not only meets the needs of today but anticipates the demands of tomorrow.

Join us as we embrace this journey of transformation, committed to delivering exceptional value and experiences that make a lasting impact on our business, customers and industry.

About the role:

At Ampol, we're undertaking significant transformation across our Technology, Digital & Data function, and we're looking for a Solution Architect to play a key role in driving delivery outcomes across our Energy Solutions and B2B technology initiatives. You will play a critical role in shaping the technology solutions that power some of Ampol's most strategic growth areas. Working across a diverse portfolio, you'll help translate business strategy into scalable, secure and practical technology outcomes.

This is a highly collaborative role where you'll partner closely with business leaders, product teams, delivery squads and enterprise architecture to define solution approaches, navigate complexity and drive technology decisions that balance business value, customer outcomes and long-term sustainability.

You'll bring a pragmatic architectural mindset, helping teams solve real business problems while ensuring solutions align with Ampol's broader technology strategy, standards and future-state architecture.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead solution architecture activities across B2B and Energy Solutions initiatives, from ideation through to delivery.
• Partner with business stakeholders to understand strategic objectives, operational challenges and customer needs, translating these into technology solutions.
• Create high-level and detailed solution designs that balance business value, technical feasibility, scalability and maintainability.
• Guide technology decision-making across applications, integrations, data, platforms and cloud services.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture to ensure alignment with Ampol's technology strategy, standards and target architectures.
• Work closely with delivery teams to provide architectural guidance throughout the implementation lifecycle.
• Assess current-state systems and identify opportunities to modernise, simplify and reduce technical debt.
• Contribute to roadmap planning, solution options analysis and investment decision-making.
• Support vendor evaluations and technology selection activities where required.
• Identify and manage architectural risks, dependencies and trade-offs across complex initiatives.
• Champion secure, resilient and scalable solutions that support both immediate business outcomes and long-term growth.

What you’ll bring:

You’ll be a strong relationship builder and strategic thinker who enjoys working at the intersection of business and technology. With the ability to navigate ambiguity and influence across diverse stakeholder groups, you’ll bring a pragmatic approach to architecture, helping teams make sound decisions while maintaining momentum and delivery focus.

• Significant experience as a Solution Architect within complex enterprise environments.
• Proven ability to design end-to-end technology solutions across applications, integrations, data and cloud platforms.
• Experience supporting large-scale business transformation, customer, commercial or operational technology initiatives.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to communicate architectural concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience working across multiple delivery teams in Agile environments.
• Sound understanding of integration patterns, API-led architecture and modern cloud-based solutions.
• Knowledge of data architecture, security, governance and non-functional requirements.
• Ability to evaluate solution options, challenge assumptions and make balanced recommendations.
• Strong commercial awareness and the ability to align technology decisions with business outcomes.
• Experience producing solution designs, architecture artefacts and decision documentation that enables successful delivery.
• A collaborative, outcome-focused mindset with a passion for solving complex business problems through technology.

And of course, you’ll be passionate about what matters to Z, embracing and living our values to help us deliver on our aspirations and broader commitment to Aotearoa New Zealand.

Don’t meet every single requirement? At Z we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

What we can offer you

• A competitive remuneration package including short-term incentive plan, medical insurance for you and your family, enhanced employer contribution for KiwiSaver
• Generous leave provisions including enhanced sick leave, parental leave benefits and the option to buy additional leave
• The balance of hybrid working, enjoy some of your week at home and some in our welcoming office space
• The opportunity to contribute and be part of a supportive team that is here to make a difference
• A chance to build your own capability through learning from some of the industry’s most knowledgeable people who have a desire to share their insights along with access to upskilling opportunities and career development across the organisation
• Two days a year to do Good in your Hood, though our volunteering scheme, a chance for you to help others in your community in a meaningful way to you

The base salary range for this role is $141,000.00 to $175,500.00 per annum, plus 15% STI based on company performance, a 5% KiwiSaver employer contribution and health insurance through Southern Cross.

Why Z?

Z has always been a proud Kiwi company. We’re aspirational for our future, confident of our role in Aotearoa New Zealand’s success and deeply loyal to our customers, communities and people.

At Z we focus on achieving extraordinary outcomes by setting the appropriate context, rather than by telling our people what to do. By doing this, high performing and talented people deliver better results and are more personally fulfilled.

We’re distinctive in our approach and if you’re up for a challenge, we’d love you to be part of it. If Z sounds like a place you believe you can add value and grow your own capability, then make sure you read Our Why. This is our founding document and provides further insights in what it means to part of the Z whānau.

If Z feels like a good match for your head and your heart, come join us for one heck of a journey!

Qualifications

Additional Information

We care deeply for our people while pushing them to achieve their best as individuals and collectively as an organisation. Our flexible working approach and Rainbow Tick and Gender Tick accreditations - backed by our strong Group values, Whakatika Move as One, Whakaora Make it Happen, Whakamana Make it Count - have created an open and inclusive workplace that promotes personal development and is underpinned by a desire for our people and our communities to succeed.

One of the things we stand for at Z is Diversity & Inclusion. It is our belief that having a diverse workforce make it possible for our people to truly be themselves and deliver on our aspirations for Z.