Solution Architect for Vault and AI/Automation Squad, Digital Delivery

Salary: $170,000 to $185,000

• Shape and lead architecture across complex enterprise digital initiatives
• Make a real impact for Aotearoa through nationally significant digital solutions

Kōrero mō te tūranga - About the role

Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand plays a vital role in understanding, developing, and caring for Aotearoa New Zealand's whenua, moana and arawai. Our digital and data capabilities are critical to delivering trusted services, enabling good decision making, and supporting sustainable outcomes for New Zealanders.

We are seeking an experienced Solution Architect to lead the architecture, design, and evolution of our low-code, automation, and AI ecosystem. This role is a key technical leadership position within Digital Delivery, providing architectural oversight across Appian Cloud, Microsoft Power Platform, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and emerging AI capabilities.

Working within a mature agile environment, you will partner closely with delivery squads, product owners, architects, and business stakeholders to design secure, scalable, and sustainable digital solutions that deliver value for New Zealanders. You will act as a trusted advisor, helping shape technology decisions, establish platform standards, and develop the architectural foundations needed to support LINZ's growing investment in automation and artificial intelligence.

While experience with Appian is highly desirable, we are equally interested in architects with strong enterprise solution design experience who are motivated to quickly develop expertise across our technology platforms.

Key responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end solution architecture across Appian Cloud, Microsoft Power Platform, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and AI-enabled solutions, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture principles and business objectives.
• Design scalable workflows, integrations, and data solutions that connect modern platforms with enterprise systems and government services.
• Provide architectural leadership across agile delivery teams, balancing customer outcomes, security, privacy, performance, and long-term sustainability.
• Establish architecture standards, governance practices, design guardrails, and development patterns across low-code and automation platforms.
• Lead design assurance activities, architecture reviews, and risk assessments to ensure high-quality, secure, and resilient solutions.
• Define and optimise platform integration, data fabric, and data governance approaches to enable future AI and automation opportunities.
• Support platform health, operational readiness, environment management, DevOps practices, and continuous improvement across delivery teams.
• Mentor and coach developers, architects, and delivery teams, building capability and fostering architectural excellence across the organisation.
• Build strong relationships with business stakeholders and communicate complex technical concepts in ways that support informed decision making.

He pūkenga tōu - Skills & experience

What you'll bring

• Proven experience as a Solution Architect, Enterprise Architect, or similar senior technology leadership role delivering complex enterprise solutions.
• Strong architecture expertise across applications, integration, cloud services, data, security, identity management, and enterprise platforms.
• Strong understanding of system integration patterns, APIs, MCP, data standards, and modern cloud architectures.
• Experience working within agile delivery environments and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence decisions and build trusted relationships at all levels.
• A track record of leading technology standards, governance practices, and architectural roadmaps within complex organisations.

What sets you apart

• Experience with Appian, Microsoft Power Platform, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, or similar low-code and automation technologies.
• Experience designing data-driven or AI-enabled solutions, including responsible and ethical use of AI technologies.
• Experience in the New Zealand public sector or other highly regulated environments.
• Knowledge of New Zealand government digital, privacy, security, and cloud standards.
• Experience operating within large-scale agile delivery environments.

The annual full-time salary range for this role is between $170,000 -$185,000 depending on skills and experience.

Ngā mea e tukuna ana e mātau - What we offer our employees

• Interesting work which impacts Aotearoa as we care for whenua, moana and arawai.
• Wellbeing allowance reimbursement
• Ability to purchase additional leave
• Annual Flu Vaccinations
• Reduced Health Insurance Premiums
• Diverse groups and networks
• If eligible for paid parental leave, you will be entitled to a top up payment for the first 18 weeks of the 26 weeks.
• A minimum of four weeks and three days annual leave

Te Tākinatanga - Our Story

Toitū Te Whenua plays a vital role in understanding, developing, and caring for New Zealand's whenua, moana and arawai (land, sea and waterways). Whether you're developing our products and services to support our customers, managing the Crown estate, engaging with our iwi partners, or helping us be an effective regulator, your contribution can make a difference. Our mahi helps New Zealanders have confidence that the development of our land, communities and country is being planned from an informed and expert position that balances environmental, social, cultural, and economic considerations, now and for future generations.

Our Kia Toipoto Intentions - Public Service Gender, Māori, Pacific and Ethnic Pay Gap Action Plan

Toitū Te Whenua is a diverse team of individuals with different experience and perspectives. This drives our culture and high performance. We know that people from underrepresented groups and women in particular don't apply for roles if they're not a 100% match, but we're not looking for perfection, we're looking for potential. As an inclusive and supportive employer, we value difference and want to encourage anyone interested to apply, regardless of whether you tick all the boxes or not. As an organisation we embrace diversity, encourage work life balance and have a flexible approach to the way we work which means you will quickly feel connected and valued.

Tono mai - How to Apply

If you're eyeing up this role and believe you've got what it takes, please apply, or get in touch with the team.

To apply, please click "Apply Online." You'll be taken through to our Toitū Te Whenua Careers Centre where you'll be able to review further information about the responsibilities and accountabilities of this role in the Position Description. You'll be able to complete your online application form and upload a copy of your CV/Cover Letter.

Please note, while applications close on Sunday 23 August 2026, we will be reviewing applications as they are received and may progress with suitable applicants prior to the application closing date. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible if you are interested in this position. We also reserve the right to extend the advertising date if no suitable candidates have been identified.

For tracking and evaluation purposes, all applications must be submitted via our on-line process. You must have the legal right to live and work in New Zealand to be eligible for this position.

You may notice that the Position Description title for this role (Digital Specialist Level Toru/4) doesn't match the advertised title. At Toitū Te Whenua we design our roles around shared capabilities (rather than focusing on tasks). This means our position descriptions are broad, one position description can cover many roles, this is known as Broad Based Role (BBR). Using BBR allows us to be responsive to our customers and to strengthen the connections across our organisation. It also gives us the flexibility to provide wider opportunities to our people, to further their careers.

If you have any questions about this role or working at Toitū Te Whenua, please email opportunities@linz.govt.nz and our People Services Team will be in touch with you.