Senior Solution Architect – Digital Architecture & Delivery

Ministry of Housing and Urban Development NZ; Wellington; On-site; NZD 169,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

The Ministry of Housing and Urban Development NZ is seeking an experienced Solution Architect in Wellington to lead the design and delivery of digital enablement and technology reform initiatives within the Planning System Transformation programme.

You will develop scalable, user-centred architectures enabling interoperability across central and local government, supporting automated workflows, and positioning the system to leverage AI while ensuring data privacy and security.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience as a Solution Architect in complex digital environments.
• Strong background in technology design, integration, data and platform design.
• Proven experience delivering technology solutions across multiple organisations or jurisdictions.
• Experience applying user-centred 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, privacy legislation, and cybersecurity frameworks.
• Understanding of government systems, policy-to-delivery lifecycles, and machinery of government.

Responsibilities

• Contributing to the solution architecture design for RM digital initiatives, including e-planning, data integration, and supporting platforms.
• 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 architecture

Digital design

Interoperability

Agile delivery

stakeholder engagement

Communications

Security and privacy

AI readiness

Job description

The Ministry of Housing and Urban Development NZ is seeking an experienced Solution Architect in Wellington to lead the design and delivery of digital enablement and technology reform initiatives within the Planning System Transformation programme.

You will develop scalable, user-centred architectures enabling interoperability across central and local government, supporting automated workflows, and positioning the system to leverage AI while ensuring data privacy and security.