Senior Solution Architect: Digital Transformation Leader

CGR Services; Wellington; On-site; NZD 169,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

MCERT seeks an experienced Solution Architect to design and deliver digital reform initiatives across the planning and environment system. You will lead end-to-end architectures, enabling interoperability between central and local government and supporting automation and analytics in a trusted, transparent manner.

You will partner with internal and external stakeholders, including councils and the Government Chief Digital Officer, to ensure architectures are strategically aligned, resilient to

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 with geospatial data.
• Proven experience delivering technology solutions across multiple organisations or jurisdictions.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the solution architecture design for RM digital initiatives including e-planning and data integration.
• Develop and maintain architecture artefacts, standards and design guidance aligned to all-of-government architectures.
• Ensure solutions are user-centred, interoperable, secure, and scalable across central and local government environments.
• Provide architecture advice to senior leaders, governance forums and programme delivery teams.
• Assess solution options, risks, dependencies and technical trade-offs to support delivery.
• Embed automation and integrated digital workflows with high-quality information management.
• Ensure alignment with digital trust, data privacy, cybersecurity and regulatory obligations.
• Contribute to future-focused capabilities, including AI-enabled decision support and analytics.

Skills

Solution architecture

Integration design

Data architecture

Geospatial data

Public sector delivery

Agile delivery

Communication

Cybersecurity frameworks

Job description

MCERT seeks an experienced Solution Architect to design and deliver digital reform initiatives across the planning and environment system. You will lead end-to-end architectures, enabling interoperability between central and local government and supporting automation and analytics in a trusted, transparent manner.

You will partner with internal and external stakeholders, including councils and the Government Chief Digital Officer, to ensure architectures are strategically aligned, resilient to