Principal Enterprise Architect

Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role

• Are you a collaborative professional that enables optimisation across an enterprise and ecosystem?
• Can you unlock a future architecture vision while catalysing speed-to-value in the now?
• Can you help define strategic capabilities that are right sourced to enable efficiency and effectiveness across the transport sector and as part of the wider ecosystem?
• Fantastic opportunity to Standardise, Simplify and Modernise an architecture landscape
• Wellington based opportunity
  

Te Whiwhinga mahi | The opportunity

The Architecture Centre of Expertise (CoE) has a future-focus to Standardise, Simplify and Modernise while incrementally delivering speed-to-value in the now. Our people collaborate across the Strategy-to-Operate Lifecycle to deliver architectures for all NZTA Waka Kotahi strategies, emergent business needs and projects/initiatives. This role takes an enterprise, future focused approach, while enabling delivery excellence in the Transport Domain.

As part of our Architecture Centre of Expertise, the Principal Enterprise Architect role is responsible for the development and maintenance of NZTA's NextGen Architecture, its associated blueprints and action plans. Taking a collaborate approach the person engages the across the Digital delivery business functions to ensure adequate architecture governance is applied and rapidly translated into action.

This position performs a business-critical function and has business and technical acumen to define and enable the enterprise-level architectures required for the current-to-future state of Transport. The position also aids the management of digital risks, cost, and complexity of our current architecture landscape as part of the Digital Domain Leadership team.

The role supports the Head of Architecture (Chief Architect) in providing strategic technology consultancy and strategic leadership, collaboratively across the enterprise, with senior business leaders including ELT Executive and General Managerial members, our partners, suppliers, and alliances.

Ko koe tēnei | About you

To be successful in this role, you will bring:

• Significant experience in the collaborative development of Enterprise Architecture strategies, blueprints, and actionable plans.
• Significant experience working in complex business, delivery, and architecture environments.
• A track record of unpacking architecture landscapes and optimising towards a future state.
• Extensive experience and ability to synthesise complex and / or technical and business information to tell our story and sell the story of digital change resulting in delivered transformation.
• Proven experience in leading, influencing and building credibility across a range of stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to prioritise the creation of organisational value in the now while actively considering the future and helping the organisation to balance the tension between the two when making decisions.
• Proven experience in contributing to the maturity of Enterprise Architecture practices.
• Proven experience in the integration of solutions into an existing environment that includes '-as-a-Service', COTS, and custom developed services while planned simplification is delivered.
• An understanding of the digital twin, digital engineering, IoT/Networking and Cloud technologies.
• Knowledge and experience in proactive technology risk management.
• Experience in working in enterprise-wide agile environments and operating models.
  

You will demonstrate knowledge of, or a willingness to gain an understanding of Te Ao Māori and promote tikanga and Te Reo Māori. You will also have knowledge of, or a willingness to gain an appreciation of te Tiriti o Waitangi (the Treaty of Waitangi) as it applies in the public sector.

Ko wai mātou | About us

At NZ Transport Agency | Waka Kotahi, it all starts with our people. The organisation's performance and success depends on the people who choose to make this a great place to work and make a difference for Aotearoa.

NZ Transport Agency | Waka Kotahi has a strong future focus, understanding that new technologies and changing customer expectations mean the transport system we know today will not be the one we deliver in ten years' time.

Te Aukaha | Digital strengthens Waka Kotahi through supporting our people and delivering future-focussed solutions. We enable digital change and provide quality data, information, and security services.

Along with our other benefits we also have new Waka Kotahi Life, Income Protection and Critical Illness Insurance scheme available for permanent employees.

View the Position Description here.

For further information, email: careers@nzta.govt.nz

To be considered for this position you must have a legal right to live and work in New Zealand.

NZTA| Waka Kotahi is an equal opportunity employer (EOE). We recognise the importance of diversity and inclusion and are committed to providing a working environment that embraces these values. Please let us know if you need any support or have any access requirements that will help you through the recruitment process.

Please note that we may begin shortlisting as we receive applications. We encourage early applications as we may withdraw the advertising at any time.