Senior Solution Architect: Digital Architecture & Delivery

Ministry for Cities, Environment, Regions and Transport; Wellington; On-site; NZD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

The Ministry for Cities, Environment, Regions and Transport in Wellington is seeking an experienced Solution Architect to drive digital enablement and technology reform across the planning and environment system.

You will lead end-to-end solution architectures, enable interoperability across central and local government, support automation and AI-ready analytics, and partner with policy, delivery teams, and councils to ensure resilient, user-centered designs.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience as a Solution Architect or senior architect in complex digital environments.
• Strong background in technology design and solution architecture, including integration, data, and platform design.
• Proven experience delivering technology solutions across multiple organisations or jurisdictions.
• Experience applying user-centered and service design principles in digital initiatives.
• Strong understanding of integration patterns, APIs, data sharing, and interoperability.
• Experience working in Agile and hybrid delivery environments.
• Knowledge of public sector digital delivery, including privacy legislation, and cybersecurity frameworks.
• Understanding of government systems, policy-to-delivery lifecycles, and machinery of government.
• Experience supporting business cases, investment planning, and technology options analysis.
• Ability to influence without authority and work effectively across multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Contributing to the solution architecture design for RM digital initiatives.
• Developing and maintaining architecture artefacts, standards, and design guidance aligned to all‑of‑government and sector architectures.
• Ensuring solutions are user‑centred, interoperable, secure, and scalable across central and local government environments.
• Providing architecture advice to senior leaders, governance forums, and programme delivery teams.
• Supporting programme and project delivery by assessing solution options, risks, dependencies, and technical trade‑offs.
• Embedding principles of automation, integrated digital workflows, and high‑quality information management.
• Ensuring alignment with digital trust, data integrity, privacy, cybersecurity, and regulatory obligations.
• Contributing to the development of future‑focused capabilities, including AI‑enabled decision support and analytics.
• Work collaboratively with Ministry's ICT teams and support functions to ensure solutions designs consider operability, maintainability and life cycle management.
• Security, Compliance and Risk management, make sure architecture decisions follow best practices to protect data, ensure privacy, meet compliance requirement and maintain strong cybersecurity

Skills

Solution design

Data integration

APIs

Geospatial data

Interoperability

Agile delivery

Cybersecurity

Public sector

Government policy

Influence without authority

Job description

The Ministry for Cities, Environment, Regions and Transport in Wellington is seeking an experienced Solution Architect to drive digital enablement and technology reform across the planning and environment system.

You will lead end-to-end solution architectures, enable interoperability across central and local government, support automation and AI-ready analytics, and partner with policy, delivery teams, and councils to ensure resilient, user-centered designs.