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We work together in an agile, energising environment to create innovative solutions through our promise \"If you can imagine a better future, let's find a way.\"\nWe support wellbeing, flexible working and have a generous leave offering. There is the opportunity for growth, learning and career development. No two days are the same.\nWe are looking for an experienced Enterprise Architect to join our Tech Strategy & Architecture team.\nShape BNZ's payments architecture, connecting business strategy with practical delivery across people, processes, information, and technology.\nThis is an Auckland based hybrid role with three days in the office and two where you can work flexibility.\nMō te Tūranga | About the role\nWe sat down with the People Leader (who you would report to), who let us know the following about the role:\nWhat are the responsibilities for this role?\nSet target states and transition roadmaps for domestic and international payments, merchant services, and open banking.\nBring an industry-wide perspective to BNZ's payments strategy and architecture, anticipating regulatory and industry change, aligning with emerging standards and initiatives, and helping BNZ influence the future direction of the payments ecosystem.\nGuide integration across payment platforms, channels, customer and merchant records, core banking, ledgers, and external providers.\nDefine reusable patterns for APIs, events, messaging, and batch processing, with data ownership, privacy controls, duplicate prevention, and safe retries.\nDefine availability, performance, observability, and tested failover and recovery requirements across bank, scheme, and third-party services.\nPartner with specialists on identity, consents, and authorities, including mandates, delegated access, approval controls, and auditable revocation.\nLead modernisation, migration, and decommissioning decisions, balancing customer value, cost, technical debt, and resilience. Explore emerging capabilities through controlled experimentation.\nCoach architects and delivery teams, provide design assurance, and escalate material risks and exceptions through agreed governance.\nFollow legislative, policy, and health and safety requirements, complete required training, and report risks, hazards, and incidents.\nWhat is the team culture and environment like?\nWe value collaboration, constructive challenge, and clear decisions across business, technology, operations, and risk.\nWhat is the most exciting thing about this opportunity?\nImproving how customers and merchants move money through practical modernisation and new payment choices.\nWhat is the most challenging thing about this opportunity?\nBalancing innovation with dependable services, regulatory obligations, legacy constraints, and delivery capacity while influencing teams and partners without direct authority.\nWhat attributes will this person display in order to be successful in this role?\nStrategic and enterprise-wide thinking.\nAnalytical problem-solving and sound judgement.\nCollaborative leadership and influence.\nClear communication with business and technical audiences.\nA growth mindset, curiosity, and adaptability.\nCommitment to coaching and developing others.\nCustomer focus and accountability for advice and outcomes.\nWhat technical skills and experience are essential?\nYou will bring enterprise or solution architecture experience, including large-scale transformation, cloud computing, microservices, and secure integration, alongside experience delivering payment services.\nYou will understand New Zealand's payments environment, Payments NZ, card and account-to-account payments, merchant acquiring, and international payments. 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