The University of Auckland is New Zealand’s leading university. We employ more than 5400 academic and professional staff to support over 41,000 students, making us one of NZ’s largest employers.  

Connect at the University of Auckland is responsible for the delivery of the products, applications, and infrastructure to support the staff, students, and community of the University of Auckland.

The primary objective of Connect is to provide technology-related services that support the University’s core functions of Administration, Teaching, Learning and Research, together with supporting faculty staff and enhancing the student experience.

Connect delivers a range of services across the University and has responsibility for both operational and leadership roles in the provision of Information Technology. It plays a key role in ensuring the core IT infrastructure and systems of the University are both reliable and secure.

Our Digital Strategy & Architecture team are currently recruiting for experienced Digital Solutions Architect to join a high-performing and collaborative team, influencing and setting the direction of our digital change programme be involved in a wide variety of significant initiatives that contribute directly to Te Rautaki Matihiko | The University of Auckland Digital Strategy.

This is your opportunity to drive digital change and work on a variety of meaningful projects with new and leading-edge technologies, including Robotic Process Automation, API-centric Architecture, Artificial Intelligence and Cloud Platforms. Our customers are at the heart of what we do, and the work you will be involved is complex, interesting and will give you a lot of variety to your day to day.

Key accountabilities:

• Analyse requirements and produce solution designs in response to business needs
• Ensure solution designs fit requirements for our diverse stakeholder’s needs and can be delivered in a timely fashion
• Architecting the architecture and contribute to the activation of the UoA technology plan
• Contribute to the team in a collaborative and inclusive manner that ensures quality service delivery outcomes.

For more detailed information, please refer to the Position Description.

Please note, this is a full-time permanent position and sits in our Newmarket campus, where flexible working is widely utilised. The salary range is $140,000 – $170,000 dependant on experience.

This role requires a solution design background with broad operational and strategic exposure, preferably within a large multi-faceted organisation.

In addition, you will also have the following:

• Tertiary qualified in Computer Science, Software Engineering or similar discipline
• Proven background in product development with experience of large scale business-critical applications, both cloud and on-premise
• Proven experience working with ERP systems in large organisations.
• Public Cloud Well Architected Framework experience and knowledge
• Proven experience and certification with AWS or other Public Cloud Provider
• Strong written, verbal communication and interpersonal skills
• Proven relationship management strengths with clear evidence of your ability to build successful business relationships
• Demonstrated ability to influence across organisations with a customer-focused approach

Preference will be given to those who can demonstrate experience in integration, identity management and application architecture, within an industry-leading team, ideally as key contributors to large-scale digital change or transformation initiatives.

The University of Auckland is New Zealand’s leading university and maintains significant computational, laboratory and analytic facilities. Auckland itself is frequently rated as one of the world’s most liveable cities.

The University is committed to providing an excellent working environment through:

• Flexible employment practices (including working from home, flexible hours)
• Up to 6.75% company superannuation scheme
• A competitive salary with five weeks’ annual leave

In addition, we also offer career development programmes, discounted car parking, a generous parental leave allowance, childcare and a number of other discounts on internal and external services.

For more information please visit Staff Benefits.