Solution Architect - Enterprise Integration & Data (Permanent)
Digital Strategy & Architecture | Hamilton, New Zealand
The Client
Our client is a well-established New Zealand infrastructure business with a large customer base and a growing programme of partner-delivered technology work. With new leadership and a changing operating environment, they’re strengthening their architecture practice so the technology landscape stays coherent while delivery teams and integrators move quickly.
The Opportunity
This is architecture with real accountability. It isn’t a documentation role, and it isn’t a build role. It suits a solution architect who is comfortable influencing without authority. That means challenging a systems integrator’s design with evidence, keeping the conversation constructive, and knowing when enough analysis has been done to proceed.
You’ll be the architectural thread from discovery through delivery on a mix of internally and externally delivered work, covering integration, data, security and operability. You’ll work inside an established practice with clear principles, an Architecture Review Board and a Technical Design Authority, so you won’t be inventing governance from scratch, but you will help shape it as it matures. Industry experience helps. Curiosity and judgement matter more.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Engaging at discovery to understand the business problem, constraints and outcomes, then shaping pragmatic end-to-end solutions.
- Evaluating options and making trade-offs, risks and consequences clear to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Writing Architecture Decision Records and taking significant decisions and exceptions to the Architecture Review Board and Technical Design Authority.
- Reviewing and challenging solution architecture produced by systems integrators and vendors, and spotting gaps against Statements of Work.
- Staying engaged through implementation to protect architectural intent, while respecting Technical Leads’ ownership of detailed design.
- Shaping non-functional requirements, including resilience, performance, recoverability, observability and supportability.
- Producing clear solution designs and diagrams, and contributing reusable patterns back to the wider practice.
- Keeping across emerging technology, including AI, and what it means for the architecture.
What You’ll Bring
- Experience as a Solution Architect or comparable technical architect, designing end-to-end solutions from discovery through delivery - Telco Experience would be advantageous
- Strong practical experience across integration, APIs, event-driven architecture, data architecture and data flows.
- Experience shaping non-functional requirements and weighing options, trade-offs and dependencies.
- Confidence working with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Technical Leads and delivery teams, with clear documentation and visualisation skills.
- Experience with ADRs and architecture governance, and with reviewing designs from integrators or vendors, is strongly regarded.
- Exposure to ServiceNow, Dynamics 365, ESRI ArcGIS and/or AWS or comparable cloud platforms is a plus.
- Relevant tertiary qualification or equivalent experience; architecture, cloud or integration certifications are a plus.
- Based in, or able to work from, Hamilton.
Why Apply
- Genuine architectural influence on a complex, live technology landscape, not a paper-pushing role.
- An established practice with clear principles, patterns and proportionate governance, and room to shape how it evolves.
- A business with new leadership and a strong appetite to grow, with real support for learning a new domain.
How to Apply
For a confidential discussion about this role, contact Adam Roi at Walkersmith or apply with confidence via Seek. We look forward to hearing from you.