Maritime Cloud Architect & Data Solutions Lead

CGR Services; Wellington; On-site; NZD 150,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing allowance reimbursement

Ability to purchase additional leave

Annual Flu Vaccinations

Reduced Health Insurance Premiums

Job summary

Toitū Te Whenua seeks a senior IT architect to drive digital architecture for New Zealand's maritime and geospatial capabilities. The role leads architecture for hydrography applications and data, guiding cloud strategies and data management across multi-year initiatives.

Collaboration with product owners and SMEs will be essential to success. You will design migration paths to AWS, promote open-data approaches, and mentor delivery squads in IaC and CI/CD practices.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated senior/principal IT architecture experience with data-centric systems.
• Extensive AWS infrastructure experience including migration and operation of cloud solutions.
• Proven ability to engage with stakeholders at all levels and drive architecture decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture for the Hydrography Team and Location Information in applications and data space.
• Collaborate with product owners and SMEs to craft cloud and application strategies.
• Design and execute migration plans from legacy hosted services to AWS Cloud.
• Formulate long-term data management strategies for interoperability and efficiency.
• Establish partnerships with industry leaders and international bodies to drive innovation.
• Shape the architecture and migration strategy starting with AWS re-platform of legacy services.
• Assess options and advocate for the best delivery approach (custom, COTS, or SaaS).
• Develop proofs-of-concept to reduce risk before major investments.
• Partner with senior leadership to align technology roadmap with Location Information goals.
• Provide coaching on IaC, CI/CD and modern development practices.

Skills

Senior architect

AWS expertise

Data-centric

Open source

Stakeholder communication

Tools

IaC

CI/CD

Job description

Toitū Te Whenua seeks a senior IT architect to drive digital architecture for New Zealand's maritime and geospatial capabilities. The role leads architecture for hydrography applications and data, guiding cloud strategies and data management across multi-year initiatives.

Collaboration with product owners and SMEs will be essential to success. You will design migration paths to AWS, promote open-data approaches, and mentor delivery squads in IaC and CI/CD practices.