Architecture Practice Lead - SkyCity
SkyCity Entertainment Group
Approved
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About the role
At SkyCity Entertainment Group, technology plays a critical role in powering exceptional customer experiences, supporting business growth, and driving innovation across our entertainment, hospitality and gaming operations. We're looking for an experienced Architecture Practice Lead to join our ICT team and help shape the future of technology delivery across the organisation.
Mō te Tūranga | About the Role
Reporting to the Head of Solutioning, you'll be the senior architecture practitioner who sets the benchmark for solution architecture excellence across the business. This is a highly influential role where you'll balance hands-on solution design with architecture governance, practice development and strategic advisory responsibilities.
You'll work closely with Product Teams, Projects and senior stakeholders to design robust technology solutions, guide investment decisions and ensure architectural integrity across our technology landscape. You'll also play a key role in our Initiate Squad, helping shape, size and assess new initiatives before they enter delivery.
While this role has no direct reports, it offers significant influence across ICT, enabling you to mentor peers, drive best practice and elevate architecture capability across the organisation.
Lead end-to-end solution architecture for strategic initiatives and technology investments.
Design scalable, secure and maintainable application and integration solutions.
Facilitate architecture governance processes and architecture review forums.
Provide peer review, coaching and mentoring to fellow architects.
Partner with business and technology leaders to shape future initiatives and investment decisions.
Assess architectural risk, complexity, dependencies and strategic alignment for proposed work.
Contribute to architecture standards, frameworks, methods and governance practices.
Champion continuous improvement across SkyCity's digital ways of working.
Mōu | About You
We're looking for a seasoned architecture professional who combines technical depth with strong commercial judgement and stakeholder influence.
You'll ideally bring:
7+ years' experience in solution or application architecture roles.
Proven experience delivering complex enterprise technology solutions.
Experience contributing to business cases, project initiation and technology investment decisions.
Strong governance, facilitation and architecture review experience.
The ability to influence senior stakeholders without formal authority.
Experience developing architecture standards, frameworks and best practices.
A pragmatic, collaborative approach and the ability to balance strategic thinking with delivery outcomes.
TOGAF, ArchiMate and Agile architecture experience would be highly regarded.
Ngā painga | Benefits
A supportive team environment focused on growth, integrity and excellence
Competitive salary and benefits
A supportive, diverse company culture
Medical insurance
$2.50 cooked meals in our staff cafeteria (there's some healthy salads as well)
Staff convenience store (discounted eggs, butter, bread, milk etc)
Heavily discounted staff car parking
Career progression
Discounts at our outlets
Free trips for you plus one as many times as you like up the Sky Tower (if you like heights and not too busy!)
At SkyCity, our career opportunities are as diverse as our workforce. We don't just embrace differences; we value and support them. Our hiring is centred on capability and performance, regardless of gender, gender identity, race, origin, age, educational background, disability, or religious beliefs. We're here to empower you to shine. Our willingness to adapt ensures you can chart your path with us! Join us at SkyCity and be extraordinary by being you.
SkyCity takes its commitment to Host Responsibility seriously. Every member of our team, no matter their role, contributes towards SkyCity's culture of customer care.
Mō te Tūranga | About the Role
Reporting to the Head of Solutioning, you'll be the senior architecture practitioner who sets the benchmark for solution architecture excellence across the business. This is a highly influential role where you'll balance hands-on solution design with architecture governance, practice development and strategic advisory responsibilities.
You'll work closely with Product Teams, Projects and senior stakeholders to design robust technology solutions, guide investment decisions and ensure architectural integrity across our technology landscape. You'll also play a key role in our Initiate Squad, helping shape, size and assess new initiatives before they enter delivery.
While this role has no direct reports, it offers significant influence across ICT, enabling you to mentor peers, drive best practice and elevate architecture capability across the organisation.
Lead end-to-end solution architecture for strategic initiatives and technology investments.
Design scalable, secure and maintainable application and integration solutions.
Facilitate architecture governance processes and architecture review forums.
Provide peer review, coaching and mentoring to fellow architects.
Partner with business and technology leaders to shape future initiatives and investment decisions.
Assess architectural risk, complexity, dependencies and strategic alignment for proposed work.
Contribute to architecture standards, frameworks, methods and governance practices.
Champion continuous improvement across SkyCity's digital ways of working.
Mōu | About You
We're looking for a seasoned architecture professional who combines technical depth with strong commercial judgement and stakeholder influence.
You'll ideally bring:
7+ years' experience in solution or application architecture roles.
Proven experience delivering complex enterprise technology solutions.
Experience contributing to business cases, project initiation and technology investment decisions.
Strong governance, facilitation and architecture review experience.
The ability to influence senior stakeholders without formal authority.
Experience developing architecture standards, frameworks and best practices.
A pragmatic, collaborative approach and the ability to balance strategic thinking with delivery outcomes.
TOGAF, ArchiMate and Agile architecture experience would be highly regarded.
Ngā painga | Benefits
A supportive team environment focused on growth, integrity and excellence
Competitive salary and benefits
A supportive, diverse company culture
Medical insurance
$2.50 cooked meals in our staff cafeteria (there's some healthy salads as well)
Staff convenience store (discounted eggs, butter, bread, milk etc)
Heavily discounted staff car parking
Career progression
Discounts at our outlets
Free trips for you plus one as many times as you like up the Sky Tower (if you like heights and not too busy!)
At SkyCity, our career opportunities are as diverse as our workforce. We don't just embrace differences; we value and support them. Our hiring is centred on capability and performance, regardless of gender, gender identity, race, origin, age, educational background, disability, or religious beliefs. We're here to empower you to shine. Our willingness to adapt ensures you can chart your path with us! Join us at SkyCity and be extraordinary by being you.
SkyCity takes its commitment to Host Responsibility seriously. Every member of our team, no matter their role, contributes towards SkyCity's culture of customer care.