Solution Architect

New Zealand Government; Wellington; On-site; NZD 119,000 - 163,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

4 weeks holiday leave

Flexible work hours where possible

Online professional development portal

Access to inclusive networks

Job summary

Ministry of Justice in New Zealand seeks a skilled Solution Architect to design and maintain current and future state architectures that enable Te Au Reka data, reporting, analytics, and insights capabilities. You will ensure designs align with business needs, enterprise architecture, and technology standards across a complex transformation.

Reporting to the Manager Te Au Reka Data Enablement, you will provide architectural leadership and collaborate with delivery teams, stakeholders, and

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing and delivering solution architectures within large, complex programmes or transformations.
• Ability to balance business needs, technical requirements, risk, and long-term sustainability.
• Strong communication skills to explain complex concepts to diverse audiences.
• Leadership across data, integration, reporting, and analytics initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead and guide solution options, architecture patterns, and technology decisions.
• Collaborate with delivery teams, stakeholders, and partners to produce fit-for-purpose designs.
• Champion data, privacy, governance, and information management within architectural designs.
• Support governance and assurance activities through design reviews and risk assessments.

Skills

Solution Architecture

Stakeholder communication

Agile delivery

Architectural leadership

Data and analytics awareness

Job description

Te Haeata/The Opportunity

The Solution Architect is a Fixed Term Full Time opportuinity until 30 May 2029 responsible for designing and maintaining current and future state solution architectures that enable the delivery of Te Au Reka's data, reporting, analytics, and insights capabilities. The role ensures solution designs align with business needs, programme objectives, enterprise architecture, and the Ministry's technology standards and practices.

Reporting to the Manager Te Au Reka Data Enablement, the Solution Architect provides architectural leadership across data enablement initiatives, ensuring that information, reporting, analytics, integration, and data management capabilities are designed to support operational, regulatory, performance, and decision‑making needs.

The role works closely with programme delivery teams, business stakeholders, architects, technical specialists, vendors, and implementation partners to develop fit‑for‑purpose solution designs that support trusted, high‑quality information and sustainable long‑term outcomes.

Operating within a complex transformation environment, the Solution Architect balances strategic direction, architectural integrity, delivery requirements, governance obligations, and operational considerations to ensure solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable, and aligned with programme outcomes.

The role contributes to the successful delivery of Te Au Reka by ensuring that:

• Solution architectures support the delivery of reporting, analytics, and insights capabilities through the provision of high‑quality and accessible information.
• Data, integration, reporting, and analytics solutions are aligned to business outcomes and operational needs.
• Data models, information flows, migration approaches, and solution components are fit‑for‑purpose and support long‑term sustainability.
• Architectural decisions minimise data quality, reconciliation, and information management issues throughout implementation and transition.
• Security, privacy, governance, and information management requirements are appropriately incorporated into solution designs.
• Technology, business process, service, and operating model changes are considered holistically within architectural designs.
• Solution components remain aligned with enterprise architecture, technical standards, and strategic direction.

The Solution Architect provides leadership and expert advice on solution options, architecture patterns, technology decisions, and implementation approaches.

The role evaluates opportunities to improve business outcomes through modern technologies, innovative approaches, automation, and emerging capabilities, ensuring that proposed solutions deliver measurable value while remaining practical and sustainable.

The role also supports programme governance and assurance activities by contributing architectural expertise to planning, design reviews, risk assessments, technical decision‑making, and implementation oversight.

As part of the Data Enablement team, the Solution Architect plays a critical role in establishing the data and information foundations that enable trusted reporting, meaningful insights, effective operations, and informed decision‑making across Te Au Reka.

Ō pūkenga/Skills and Experience

No candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we have outlined and believe you can bring value to the role, we'd love to hear from you!

To be successful in this role you will:

• Bring proven Solution Architecture experience within large, complex programmes, projects, or transformation environments.
• Design practical, fit‑for‑purpose solutions that balance business needs, technical requirements, risk, and long‑term sustainability.
• Build strong relationships with business and technical stakeholders and confidently communicate complex concepts to a range of audiences.
• Provide architectural leadership and guidance across data, integration, reporting, and analytics initiatives.
• Work effectively in Agile and cross‑functional delivery environments, influencing decisions and driving successful outcomes.

Be committed to the principles of te Tiriti o Waitangi.

Mō mātou/About us

At Te Tāhū o te Ture - the Ministry of Justice, we're committed to strengthening people's trust in the law of Aotearoa, New Zealand. Te Au Reka represents the opportunity of a lifetime, making a profound difference to those who work in and interact with our courts and tribunals. We are seeking to modernise the administration of justice by replacing highly manual, time‑thinking, paper‑based process with a new digital case management solution, transforming the way people access and experience justice in Aotearoa New Zealand. Te Au Reka is a large, complex and unique programme spanning the courts and tribunals of New Zealand. In delivering Te Au Reka we are seeking to build the Ministry's capability to deliver complex programmes of change. Working on Te Au Reka will give you the opportunity to use your knowledge and experience, while developing new ways of working. We are building a team that is highly collaborative, inquisitive and adaptable. Te Au Reka is a game‑changer, and we care deeply about making it a success. Joining Te Tāhū o te Ture means you will become part of an organisation that welcomes and supports people of all gender identities, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, disabilities and religions.

Ngā painga o tēnei wāhi mahi/What's great about working here

We offer you a range of benefits to support your wellbeing and help make the Ministry a great place to be. These include:

• 4 weeks holiday leave
• flexible work hours where possible
• an online professional development portal
• access to a variety of inclusive and proactive networks

See our full range of benefits here.

With a wide range of jobs, you also get the chance to gain a variety of skills and experience while developing your career.

Utu ā-tau/Salary

The appointing salary for this role will be between $118,904 and $163,344 based on skills and experience.

Applications close on 26 August 2026; however, we will be reviewing CVs as they come in and inviting successful candidates to interview before the close date.

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