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About the role
- Solution Architect specializing in Integration, shaping ideas and solutions for significant organisations with Datacom in New Zealand.
Responsibilities
- Act as a trusted integration advisor — the expert clients want in the room.
- Lead discovery workshops, architecture deep-dives, and design sessions.
- Partner with sales teams on pre-sales, solution shaping, and bid responses.
- Design robust, secure, and scalable integration architectures across a modern toolset.
- Apply API-led connectivity, event-driven architecture, and asynchronous messaging patterns.
- Define future-state architectures aligned to cloud, modernisation, and AI strategies.
- Lead complex integration implementations across the full SDLC.
- Uphold best practices, security standards, and enterprise architecture principles.
- Mentor delivery teams and lift capability across the practice.
- Assess legacy landscapes and build actionable modernisation roadmaps.
- Prototype and present AI-enabled integration use cases.
- Help lead Datacom's push to put AI at the forefront of our integration solutions.
Requirements
- 7+ years delivering enterprise integration solutions
- Hands-on with integration platforms and technologies — e.g. MuleSoft, Azure Integration Services, Kafka, Solace, Kong, Java Spring, Dell Boomi etc.
- Strong API design knowledge — REST, versioning, security, and governance.
- DevOps and CI/CD (Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Git CI/CD).
- Cloud — Azure or AWS.
- Containers — Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, EKS, AKS.
- Practical AI experience in integration contexts is a real plus.
- Proven experience consulting directly with enterprise customers.
- Confident leading workshops and executive-level conversations.
- Able to make complex technical concepts land clearly with any audience.
- Genuinely curious about AI-enabled integration and intelligent applications.
- Adaptable, continuously learning, and always looking at what's next.
- Technical pre-sales or bid response experience is a nice to have.
- Enterprise or regulated industry background is a nice to have.
Benefits
- social events
- chill-out spaces
- remote working
- flexi-hours
- professional development courses
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