Strategic Solutions Architect — Enterprise & API Leadership

Randstad Digital New Zealand; Auckland; On-site; NZD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Randstad Digital New Zealand seeks a Senior Solution Architect for its Enterprise Architecture team in Auckland. The role focuses on engaging with business stakeholders to influence decisions, guide governance, and ensure alignment on architecture designs across initiatives.

Lead the design of channels and integration roadmaps, translate complex needs into future-state architectures, and embed best practices across the organization. This is a 2-year fixed-term contract (salaried pro-rata).

Qualifications

• Soft skills and influence required for multi-level stakeholder engagement.
• Extensive architecture experience in enterprise environments, Banking/Financial Services knowledge valued.
• Expert understanding of modern integration technologies and API security.
• Analytical problem-solving with attention to detail.
• Nice-to-have background as integration engineer/full-stack developer and cloud experience (AWS/GCP/Azure) and cybersecurity awareness.

Responsibilities

• Stakeholder leadership: engage, influence, and negotiate with business stakeholders and vendors.
• Strategic design: translate complex business needs into high-level designs and future-state architectures.
• Shape the future: evaluate and recommend solutions aligned with strategic goals.
• Embed best practice: collaborate across teams to develop reusable patterns and governance.
• Navigate ambiguity: provide clear tech leadership in a regulated landscape.

Skills

Soft skills & influence

Architecture expertise

Technical mastery

Analytical mindset

Nice to have: integration engineer

Education

Bachelor Degree

Tools

RESTful APIs

Microservices

Event-driven architecture

SaaS integration

API security (OAuth, OIDC)

Job description

Randstad Digital New Zealand seeks a Senior Solution Architect for its Enterprise Architecture team in Auckland. The role focuses on engaging with business stakeholders to influence decisions, guide governance, and ensure alignment on architecture designs across initiatives.

Lead the design of channels and integration roadmaps, translate complex needs into future-state architectures, and embed best practices across the organization. This is a 2-year fixed-term contract (salaried pro-rata).