When the water is healthy, the land and the people are healthy Watercare is the largest water and wastewater utility in New Zealand, providing more than 400 million litres of water to Auckland every day. Now is an exciting time to join Watercare as we're planning to spend $18.5 billion over the next 20 years to ensure we can continue to support our growing city in a climate-resilient way. This translates to an investment of $2.5 million every day.
We ensure that sustainability lies at the heart of everything we do to help protect our water resources for future generations. This means that we are continuously focused on how we can reduce our carbon footprint with initiatives like solar panels, electric cars, and revegetation programmes. We are a company that wants to make a positive difference.
We are looking for a principal architect to lead and drive architectural excellence for a selection of Watercare's digital domains, creating simple, flexible, secure, and sustainable solutions that drive our business towards realizing its objectives. In this role, you will lead the definition and delivery of architecture across several capability domains by engaging business stakeholders to define and realize their business ambitions through a shared view of their strategy, current state, evolutionary states, and the roadmaps that support this. You will provide direction to technical teams, vendor resources, and solution architects working within your domains to help achieve the roadmap associated with your areas of responsibility.
You will report to the head of architecture and work closely with your key counterparts in digital and business teams to ensure we are working on the right things at the right time. Within the overall architecture community, you will help drive process improvement across the design and delivery lifecycle to further accelerate our team goals.
Responsibilities: Own the overall architecture for the assigned domain areas, defining current and future states and influencing the roadmap for change. Current needs focus on Data & Analytics, Information Management, & Integration, but may adapt as delivery needs change.Assure solutions in your area to achieve the best balance between core principles, strategic alignment, and implementation that drives the best results for Watercare.Develop roadmaps with key stakeholders.Support planning for roadmap delivery by providing guidance on sequencing, resourcing, delivery timeframes, and ongoing support needs.Document architecture, decisions, rationales, and supporting artifacts to ensure sustainable architecture for both delivery and future change.Participate in architecture processes and collaborate with peers to assure effective outcomes for Watercare.Provide technical guidance and leadership to enable Watercare's solution architects and technical specialists to grow and succeed, ensuring quality outcomes from contract and vendor resources.Drive process improvement and adoption across the architecture team and wider digital team.Share technical knowledge with the wider digital team to support long-term growth and development.Skills and Experiences: Proven success in providing solution architecture expertise for complex projects or large programmes.Experience in developing domain roadmaps and guiding the subsequent delivery activities.Experience in providing technical leadership and coaching within architecture and the wider digital team.Experience in collaborating with business leaders to understand and articulate business outcomes and convert these into technical deliverables.Energy, enthusiasm, and creativity in pushing the boundaries of what is possible and delighting stakeholders.Excellent communication skills to facilitate workshops and decision-making across technical and non-technical individuals.Broad experience in the technology industry with various architectural frameworks and styles.A passion for technology and a commitment to continuous learning.A self-starter who is organized and can manage their workload effectively.A team player with a quality focus and values aligned with those of Watercare.We offer: Life and income protection insurance plansGenerous parental leaveEmployee discounts at a range of large retailersDiscounted parking optionsFree on-site gymMe pehea te tono mai | How to Apply If you are looking for an exciting career opportunity with a fantastic team, please apply online today at www.careers.watercare.co.nz
Reference # 35958
Posted on 16 Dec 2024
Closes on 30 Dec 2024 at 09:00
Location: Newmarket
Expertise: Consulting & Strategy, Information Systems & Communication Technology
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