You will work in a well-respected and established team of talented and multi-skilled architects, so there is plenty of opportunity to expand your skills and knowledge, given the diverse pipeline of work ahead.   

As a senior member of our team, you will share our common language and contribute to the development of our architecture patterns, while providing architecture services to our diverse client base.   This role is not just about your technical capability; it’s about how you can influence, encourage and support our clients to make informed decisions about how technology can best support the business. 

These are multifaceted roles which will focus on the below:

  • Provide architectural leadership to internal account and delivery teams
  • Acting as an inspirational and pro-active leader on projects where there are a lot of people and process challenges and opportunities
  • Create pragmatic and effective solutions across traditional on premise and Cloud platforms
  • Act as a technical leader by ensuring technology supports business functionality
  • Provide architectural assurance for proposed changes to customer environments
  • Provide project assurance functions with respect to architecture for projects
  • Oversight Projects to BAU transition process and governance
  • Involved in architecture solutions that are presented to the customer
  • Involved in pre-sales activities and assisting with Bids
  • Engage multiple stakeholders to build a good working relationship, maximise communication and minimise architectural issues
  • Maintain relationships at an architectural level with the customer and within Datacom
  • Audit of applied standards to ensure compliance by Datacom account teams

As such we require a mix of consulting, client and technical skills, including:

  • A minimum of two years with the title of 'Architect'
  • Strategic thinker who is used to working with conceptual designs and experienced with proposals/bids
  • Pragmatic and dynamic thinker who will challenge traditional thinking with innovative solutions
  • Good business acumen required to ensure the business requirements and drivers are well understood before any technology is considered.  Technology won’t solve all business challenges.
  • A depth and breadth of specialist technology knowledge, with a particular focus on cloud technologies
  • Excellent knowledge of public cloud
  • Excellent knowledge of infrastructure and application domains with an understanding of service alignment
  • Ensure alignment of designs to strategy, policies, standards and external regulatory requirements of the assignment/project
  • An ability to identify or create Architectural patterns for optimum re-use
  • Previous experience in a similar role creating and contributing to the architectural repository and defining standards and patterns.  E.g. Togaf
  • Excellent written skills including proposals, conceptual designs and high level designs
  • The interpersonal and communication skills to engage effectively with clients whilst displaying resilience
  • Ability to work across organisations of all sizes and in varying industry sectors
  • Excellent planning and well organised

And of course the fit to the Datacom culture is essential, so we’ll be looking for the professionalism, problem solving, pragmatism, commitment and delivery focus Datacom is known for.

What can we offer?

  • A real commitment to your career development
  • A steady stream of interesting work, supporting diverse clients
  • A genuinely supportive and people- focused internal culture
  • Longevity and stability - we have been around for almost 50 years; we’re still Kiwi owned and we’re still growing and going strong
  • Stable and strong leadership and high quality peers to learn from and work with
  • A newly revamped and modern environment to work in
  • Insurance benefits for you and your family as part of your salary package

Please apply online. If you want to talk to us about working for Datacom please call Debbie on (04) 472 3386. All applications will be treated in the strictest confidence.   

The recruitment of these roles is being managed by Round Peg, on behalf of Datacom.

 

 

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