We are committed to keeping to the Treaty of Waitangi's guiding principles in our work for and with Māori customers and our employees, their whānau, hapū and iwi.

Also important to us is how we work - our organisation continues to develop a culture which is customer-centric, intelligence-led, agile, and inclusive. We offer flexible work practices where you'll be encouraged to innovate and prioritise your professional development to achieve your career goals.

Mō te roopu | About the team

The Strategic Architecture group is an enterprise function that ensures we are best placed to achieve our strategic intent over time through the design of services or business solutions. We are accountable for:

• Business Architecture

• Technology Architecture

• Security Architecture

• End to end design

• Product Ownership

• Business & Process Analysis

• Channel Management

• Test Strategy & Management

• Strategy

As a Group we are focused on both the business and our customer using our curiosity and insights to identify and develop innovative ways to deliver the best possible outcomes.

Mō te tūnga | About the role

You will be part of the business architecture team providing targeted expertise in translating strategic goals into high level design and developing solution blueprints and roadmaps to deliver the intended outcomes and strategies. You will generally come up with solutions as to how something might work, as opposed to 5 reasons it won't. You will interact comfortably with cross-functional teams and customers/partners to ensure all solution designs are coherent in an end-to-end context. You will lead design conversations using your influencing skills and operate confidently at an executive level.

In this varied role you will:

• Contribute business architecture expertise when designing and implementing solutions across all of IR

• Apply your expert understanding of industry and external trends to an IR context

• Explore and recommend business solution options and approaches

• Use your proven industry knowledge to propose and design solutions that are beneficial to all parties in the broader ecosystem

• Liaise with relevant stakeholders and vendors to build and maintain relevant business roadmaps.

Mōu | About you

While you may be a domain expert, you will primarily be a conceptual thinker and a problem solver. You enjoy providing frank and practical advice and interact comfortably across teams and customers/partners to ensure all solutions are coherent, aligned with our strategic goals and will deliver agreed objectives and outcomes.

To be successful in this position you will be experienced in

• Managing multiple competing priorities and demands from different sources, and be able to recognise which take priority

• Developing road maps, utilising conceptual designs and analysis

• Interpreting data to help drive decision making

• Finding innovative solutions across multiple domains

• Influencing based on your expert knowledge

• Building key relationships with internal teams and customers, naturally developing rapport and trust.

This is a dynamic and busy role requiring you to be well organised, forward thinking and a good team player