Sr. Solutions Architect, Public Sector New Zealand

About the role

The AWS Public Sector team in New Zealand is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to partner with central and local government, education, and state‑owned enterprises. You will act as a trusted technical advisor, helping agencies accelerate cloud adoption and design secure, resilient workloads for classified and protected environments.

Key responsibilities

• Design and review cloud architectures that meet security, resilience, and compliance requirements.
• Lead technical engagements such as proofs of concept, prototypes, architecture reviews, and Well‑Architected assessments.
• Advise customers on AWS security services, NZISM and NIST compliance frameworks, and sovereign cloud patterns.
• Promote adoption of modern services including AI/ML, containers, serverless, and data analytics within secure boundaries.
• Collaborate with account managers, partner solutions architects, professional services, and specialist teams to deliver end‑to‑end outcomes.

Required profile

• 8+ years of experience in technology domains such as software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, or data & analytics.
• 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting experience for applications and infrastructures.
• 10+ years of overall IT development or consulting experience in software or Internet industries.
• 5+ years of experience in infrastructure, database, and networking architecture (preferred).

Required skills

• AWS cloud services and security services.
• Compliance frameworks: NZISM, NIST.
• AI/ML, containers, serverless, data analytics.
• SAP system knowledge (e.g., SAP Business Suite, S/4HANA, SAP HANA).
• Infrastructure, database, and networking architecture.