Strategic Enterprise Architect - Digital Transformation Leader

Air New Zealand; Auckland; On-site; NZD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Air New Zealand is accelerating its journey to become the world's leading digital airline. This role sits in the Architecture Chapter and acts as a trusted strategic partner across business areas, collaborating with Tribe leaders to envision, plan and design the Tribe ecosystem to deliver customer-centric service outcomes.

You will lead architecture governance, set guardrails, and guide decision-making on make-buy-subscribe options, while evangelising the value of architecture to both technical

Qualifications

• Experience leading enterprise architecture initiatives.
• Ability to translate complex problems into actionable strategy.
• Experience partnering with Tribe leads and executive stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Develop the architecture vision for the Tribe, consulting on strategy and long-term roadmaps in conjunction with the wider Architecture community.
• Work as a strategic lead within the Tribe, supporting the Tribe Lead and Tribe Digital Lead to develop the capabilities required to step change delivery of Air New Zealand digital products.
• Participate and lead architecture governance processes to ensure decisions impacting our digital estate are within the digital dexterity guard-rails and aligned with the strategic platform direction.
• Evangelise and communicate effectively the Architecture value proposition to enable and align the Tribe vision and strategies to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Participate in vendor selection processes by providing strategic guidance and using architecture tools such as capability maps, to guide the definition of selection criteria and evaluation.
• Work closely with Tribe leadership team to provide visibility of the options available in the market, do the necessary research and facilitate balanced build vs buy vs subscribe discussions and decision making.
• Set and govern architecture guardrails for shared, enterprise-level “intentional” architecture.
• Provide autonomy and expertise to product managers to make product level “emergent” architecture decisions.
• Represent Air New Zealand in events of relevance for the industry or for our technology landscape (both attending and/or presenting).

Skills

Stakeholder management

Architecture governance

Strategic thinking

Effective communication

Vendor selection

Roadmapping

Job description

Air New Zealand is accelerating its journey to become the world's leading digital airline. This role sits in the Architecture Chapter and acts as a trusted strategic partner across business areas, collaborating with Tribe leaders to envision, plan and design the Tribe ecosystem to deliver customer-centric service outcomes.

You will lead architecture governance, set guardrails, and guide decision-making on make-buy-subscribe options, while evangelising the value of architecture to both technical