Senior Solution Architect: Digital Architecture & Delivery

Te Tūāpapa Kura Kāinga – Ministry of Housing and Urban Development NZ

Wellington

On-site

NZD 169,000 - 205,000

Full time

48 hours ago

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Job summary

Te Tūāpapa Kura Kāinga – Ministry of Housing and Urban Development NZ is seeking an experienced Solution Architect to lead end‑to‑end digital enablement across the planning and environment system. You will shape scalable architectures, enable interoperability across central and local government, and guide automation, analytics and AI‑enabled decision support in a trusted, privacy‑aware manner.

Based in Wellington, you’ll collaborate with other architects, policy, delivery teams and partnerships

Qualifications

Extensive experience as a Solution Architect or similar senior architecture role in complex digital environments.
Strong background in technology design and solution architecture, including integration, data, and platform design, ideally with geospatial data.
Proven experience designing and 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, including digital standards, 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.
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
Understanding of Te Tiriti o Waitangi obligations and their relevance to digital system design.

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.