Solution Architect (Fixed Term)

PF Olsen Limited; Rotorua; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Stand Forestry, Rotorua, is seeking an experienced Solution Architect to support a significant integration programme. The role spans architecture and detailed implementation, working with business and technology teams in a 6‑month fixed-term assignment.

You will partner with multiple workstreams to ensure practical, secure, and maintainable designs that align with Stand’s future operating model and data strategy.

Qualifications

• Experience translating business requirements into practical solution architectures.
• Tertiary qualification or equivalent practical experience.
• Forestry or field-based industry experience is desirable.
• Strong integration experience across APIs, middleware, SaaS, cloud and legacy systems.
• Broad knowledge of data architecture, systems of record and data flows.
• Experience evaluating technology and vendor options against business needs.
• A practical, collaborative and enterprise-wide mindset with sound judgement.
• Ability to simplify technology environments and reduce complexity.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain current-state, transition-state and target architecture views.
• Define how core business apps, forestry systems and data platforms work together.
• Set boundaries for systems of record, ownership, interfaces and sequencing.
• Establish authoritative data sources and reliable end-to-end data flows.
• Review vendor and internal designs, challenging unnecessary complexity.
• Support migration, cutover and decommissioning with clear ownership.

Skills

Solution architecture

Integration design

Data architecture

Vendor evaluation

Education

Tertiary qualification

Tools

APIs

Middleware

Cloud

Job description

Rotorua, Bay of Plenty 3010, New Zealand

Full-time Temporary Associate

Posted 06 Oct 2026

Description

Stand Forestryformed from the merge of PF Olsen and Forest360, has become New Zealand’s largest forestry management company and, in doing so, has positioned us to be bigger, better and stronger, with an exciting future ahead. We have a team of passionate forest professionals spanning the nation, dedicated to delivering innovative, best-in-class solutions for our valued clients.

About the role

We’re looking for an experienced Solution Architect to support a significant integration programme. Working across operational, commercial, finance and technology teams, you will translate business requirements into practical application, integration and data designs that support Stand’s future operating model. This is a 6-month fixed term role located in our Rotorua office.

This is a hands‑on role for someone who can move comfortably between high‑level architecture and detailed implementation conversations. You will work closely with workstream leads, the Senior Business Analyst, internal technology specialists and external vendors to ensure solutions are practical, integrated, secure and supportable and that decisions made in one area work for the business as a whole.

What you’ll be doing

• Develop and maintain practical current‑state, transition‑state and target architecture views as the integration programme evolves.
• Define how core business applications, specialist forestry systems, data platforms, identity, reporting and supporting services work together.
• Set clear application, integration and data boundaries, including systems of record, ownership, interfaces and sequencing.
• Partner with the Master Data & Reporting workstream to establish authoritative data sources, common identifiers and reliable end‑to‑end data flows.
• Identify overlapping functionality and support pragmatic decisions about what Stand should retain, invest in, integrate, migrate, contain, replace or retire.
• Define maintainable integration patterns across operational, finance, CRM, GIS, reporting, SaaS, cloud and legacy platforms.
• Ensure designs address resilience, error handling, security, monitoring, supportability, scalability and frontline usability.
• Translate workstream requirements into practical design options, identifying dependencies, constraints and impacts across the wider business.
• Review vendor and internal solution designs, interface specifications and technical documentation, constructively challenging unnecessary complexity or customisation.
• Support technical due diligence, migration, sequencing, cutover, decommissioning and archiving decisions, with clear ownership and exit paths for temporary solutions.
• Create and maintain architecture diagrams, solution designs, data flows and interface documentation where needed.

What we’re looking for

• Experience translating business requirements into practical solution architectures.
• A relevant tertiary qualification or equivalent practical experience.
• Forestry or other field‑based industry experience is desirable.
• Strong integration experience across APIs, middleware, event‑driven patterns, file exchange, SaaS, cloud and legacy systems.
• Broad knowledge of applications, cloud, identity, security, databases, reporting and infrastructure.
• Sound knowledge of data architecture, master data, ownership, systems of record and data flows.
• Experience objectively evaluating technology and vendor options against business and operational needs.
• A track record of simplifying technology environments and reducing unnecessary complexity.
• A practical, collaborative and enterprise‑wide mindset, with constructive challenge and sound judgement.

What we offer

This is an opportunity to play a key role in a significant integration programme and shape the practical architecture that will bring Stand’s applications, integrations, data, identity, reporting and supporting services together.

You’ll work across the business, influence important technology decisions and help create a simpler, more resilient and supportable environment for the future.

Some travel within New Zealand may be required to support workstreams and operational teams.