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Ko Mātou – About Us

Kia Hanga I Te Ao, E Ora Ai, E Tupu Ai, Te Tangata Me Te Kainga. At ANZ, we’re shaping a world where people and communities thrive, driven by a common goal: to improve the financial wellbeing and sustainability of our millions of customers.

Mō te tūranga - About the role

As a Solution Architect in our Architecture domain, you’ll play a key role in helping to deliver on improved customer experience through design and implementation of technology solutions. This role guide and qualify the architectural decisions, constraints and patterns adopted within the Tech Area, ensuring reusability and scalability of solutions across the organisation. They also assess and design solution options and provide support to engineers.

Banking is changing and we’re changing with it, giving our people great opportunities to try new things, learn and grow. Whatever your role at ANZ, you’ll be building your future, while helping to build ours.

Role Type: 12 month fixed term and permanent opportunity available
Role Location: Wellington or Auckland

Ka aha tō rā e kite ai? - What will your day look like

As a Solution Architect, you will guide and qualify the architectural decisions, constraints and patterns adopted within the Tech Area, ensuring reusability and scalability of solutions across the organisation. You will also assess and design solution options and provide support to engineers. To be able to do this, you will be accountable to provide advice, give recommendations and thought leadership, based on expertise and experience, to address needs. You will build, maintain and influence relationships to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes. You will create a purpose, mission and/or plan to achieve long term goals and objectives. This might include strategy relating to: customers, roadmaps, workforce, segments, brand, etc. Additionally, you will design technical and non-technical solutions to resolve a problem or meet a customer need.

You will be accountable for:

Working with project teams to provide solution architecture direction, leadership and guidance
Working with key business stakeholders to translate business problems into executable solutions and help shape requirements and processes
Lead, author, review and define solution designs with other architects and engineers to ANZs strategies are supported.
Collaborate with and provide specialist advice and recommendations to architecture, engineering and delivery teams.
Engage with vendors in the context of solution designs
Identify and advise strategic improvements in initiatives to ensure alignment with technology and roadmaps.
Providing direction to deal with trade-offs between delivery and strategy

Ōu Pūkenga? - What will you bring?

To grow and be successful in the role, you will ideally bring the following:

Domain Knowledge: You have expert understanding of solution architecture and banking environments.
Experience: A proven record of skills and experience as a Solution Architect in a medium to large enterprise.
Design: Strong analytical skills to understand and break down the needs of business stakeholders and translate these into solution options/directions
Collaboration & Stakeholder Management: Participated in stakeholder engagement at multiple levels. Demonstrated ability to influence, collaborate and negotiate with stakeholders to inform their decision making.
People: A person that comfortably fits in and participates in a team environment, and is able to provide technology leadership
Strong understanding of integration, data and dealing with large complex technology environments
Experience with a broad array of modern cloud based technologies and environments
Experience in Lending/Credit programmes within a banking environment
Knowledge of banking and lending environments from a business perspective
Architecture certification in AWS
Experience practical working as a lead engineer or similar.
A strong interest in modern software architectures.

You’re not expected to have 100% of these skills. At ANZ a growth mindset is at the heart of our culture, so if you have most of these things in your toolbox, we’d love to hear from you.

He aha te take e uru ai koe ki a mātou? - So, why join us?

From the moment you join ANZ, you'll be part of a work whānau striving towards a common purpose: shaping a world where communities thrive.

But it's not just our customers who'll feel your impact. You'll feel it too. Because at ANZ, you'll have the resources, opportunities, and community you need to take the next big step in your career.

We're a diverse community at ANZ in different roles, different locations, doing different things. That's why we have a range of flexible working arrangements, so our people can 'make work, work for them'. We also provide a range of benefits including access to wellbeing services and discounts on selected products and services from ANZ and more.

At ANZ you'll be part of an organisation where the different backgrounds, perspectives and life experiences of our people are celebrated. That's because we're committed to building a workplace that reflects the diversity of Aotearoa New Zealand's communities and this is one of the reasons that has inspired us to develop a multi-year Te Ao Māori Strategy called Tākiri-Ā-Rangi. This includes increasing representation of Māori and Pasifika people at ANZ. Join us and get involved in one of our affinity networks which help us to better understand and meet the needs and interests of our increasingly diverse workforce.

Kua wātea te katoa ki te tono. We welcome applications from everyone and encourage you to talk to us about any adjustments you may require to our recruitment process or the role itself. If you are a candidate with an access requirement or disability, let us know how we can provide you with additional support.

To find out more about working at ANZ visit https://www.anz.co.nz/careers/.You can apply for this role by visiting ANZ Careers and searching for reference number 73029.

Te Rā Ōtinga - Job Posting End Date

20/10/2024 , 11.59pm, (Melbourne Australia)