Senior Azure Architect — Government Cloud Migration Lead

PHET Enterprise Services (AP) Limited, Philippines Regional Operating Headquarters; Wellington; On-site; NZD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

DXC Technology is seeking an experienced Forward Deployed Azure Architect to work with New Zealand Government and regulated-industry customers. You will shape decisions, validate designs, and move solutions from concept to production within NZ’s sovereign Azure North region.

You will lead cloud strategy, migration, and architecture engagements, delivering secure, enterprise-scale foundations and reusable patterns across DXC’s platform engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing and governing enterprise cloud solutions.
• Delivery of large-scale cloud migration programs from assessment to operations.
• Experience with Azure Landing Zones and governed cloud foundations.
• Strong understanding of security, privacy, availability, and cost.
• Ability to work with security and compliance stakeholders and produce architecture evidence.

Responsibilities

• Frame high-value problems with customer leaders and lead cloud strategy.
• Support migration strategy and end-to-end execution, including discovery and assessment.
• Design enterprise-scale Azure Landing Zones and governance structures.
• Plan migrations to the sovereign Azure New Zealand North region with in-country resilience.
• Apply Azure CAF and Well-Architected Framework to decisions and remediation.
• Define secure-by-design architectures with Zero Trust and private connectivity.
• Translate NZ security and sovereignty obligations into architecture decisions.
• Develop current-state and target-state architectures, roadmaps and designs.
• Lead workshops and present recommendations to governance boards.
• Collaborate with engineering, cyber, data and FinOps to deliver outcomes.

Skills

Azure architecture

Cloud governance

Stakeholder mgmt

DevSecOps

IaC

Secure design

Executive facilitation

Education

Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Security/DevOps certifications

Tools

Azure Migrate

Kubernetes/AKS

Azure Arc

GitOps

Job description

DXC Technology is seeking an experienced Forward Deployed Azure Architect to work with New Zealand Government and regulated-industry customers. You will shape decisions, validate designs, and move solutions from concept to production within NZ’s sovereign Azure North region.

You will lead cloud strategy, migration, and architecture engagements, delivering secure, enterprise-scale foundations and reusable patterns across DXC’s platform engineering teams.