Enterprise Architect

Tēnei tūranga – About the role

The Digital Data and Insights group leads, connects and strengthens MBIE's core data and insights, digital and technology capabilities.

The Enterprise Architect is responsible for leading and overseeing the facilitation and implementation of enterprise-level business and technology strategies that align with the Ministry's goals and objectives and plays a critical role in supporting prioritization and sequencing of investments through the Ministry's investment governance processes.

The Enterprise Architect will provide business and technology change leadership, ensuring that organisational change is well understood, well designed, constructed and that the change itself remains aligned with the organisation's strategies throughout its delivery.

The Enterprise Architect will provide architectural leadership across MBIE’s extended community of architects, its strategic partners, and vendors, ensuring the development and adherence to MBIE’s Enterprise Architecture, its principles, standards, and enterprise patterns.

The Enterprise Architect responsibilities include:

• Identifies, evaluates and recommends strategic options for MBIE, and advises on those options, the key risks, costs, benefits, system impacts and priorities.
• Builds long term strategic and collaborative relationships with business leaders to understand business needs and direction and help business leaders understand how technology decisions, trade-offs impact the wider ministry’s strategies and directions.
• Ensures compliance between business strategies, enterprise transformation activities and technology directions, setting strategies, policies, standards, and practices. This includes the support of all architectural disciplines and champions architectural initiatives.
• Liaise across the MBIE organisation and wider public sector stakeholders, acting as a visionary to proactively assist in defining the direction for the future state of MBIE. Ensures opportunities to leverage existing capabilities are identified and works with key stakeholders between functional groups to ensure these opportunities are explored and realised.
• Support good decision making at senior leadership levels by providing factual, accurate and well positioned advice.
• Develops and presents business cases for high-level initiatives, for approval, funding, and prioritisation. Provides input into the allocation of invested dollars to meet MBIE initiatives through review of development (business and technical) initiatives within the context of architecture.
• Captures and prioritises market and environmental trends, business strategies and objectives, and identifies the business benefits of alternative strategies.
• Establishes the contribution that technology can make to business objectives, conducting feasibility studies, producing high-level business models, and preparing or contributing to business cases.
• Leads the creation and review of a systems capability strategy that meets the strategic requirements of the business.
• Develops enterprise-wide architecture and processes that ensure that the strategic application of change is embedded in the management of the organisation, ensuring the buy-in of all stakeholders.
• Brings about significant improvements and measurable business benefits by identifying, proposing, initiating, and leading significant programmes of improvement.

Ngā herenga – Requirements of the role

Personal specifications

• Demonstrated ability to develop trust and credibility with senior leaders and decision makers.
• Ability to lead through influence, set a clear vision, and move others toward a common vision or goal.
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate and deliver multi year planning, prioritisation and sequencing of investment cases in an architectually and finacially complex organisation.
• Proven experience and achievement in senior business facing technology role’s where you were able to successfully build trust, influence and engage senior leaders through personal advocacy, vision, drive and working collaboratively with colleagues.
• Ability to demonstrate skills in directing, developing and motivating a virtual team of information and technology professionals.
• Demonstrated understanding of medium to long-term technology trends and the implications for heavily digital and technology dependent organisations.
• Proven ability to proactively lead and build a sense of common purpose across an organisations technology & Change functions, actively looking for opportunities to build engagement and commitment within the architecture group and across MBIE.
• Strong understanding of the machinery of government, the processes and systems that underpin operations of and investment within the public sector environment.
• Proven leadership skills including demonstrated ability to engage and motivate colleagues and an ability to build a strong high performing virtual team in a complex organisation.
• Knowledge and experience of te ao Māori and te ao Māori practices; tikanga, te reo and a comprehensive understanding of the Treaty, te Tiriti and the Treaty Principles or a willingness to engage and learn this new skillset.
• A relevant tertiary qualification and/or extensive and comparable relevant experience at a senior level in the public or private sector.
• Wide knowledge base across technology domains, business practice and systems. (Move lower/Expand?)
• A passion for emerging technology, and evaluating how it can benefit and enhance organisations and customers/users experience.
• Must have the legal right to live and work in New Zealand. 
• Credit check required (yes/no).
• Police vetting (yes).
• Ability to obtain / maintain a Top Secret security clearance if required.

Takohanga tuhinga o mua – Key accountabilities and deliverables

Critical areas of success

• Contribute to the creation and implementation of an enterprise digital strategy and blueprint to support MBIE’s strategic requirements.
• Support senior leaders and decision makers to have the difficult conversations with accurate information, facts and insights.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of a multi-year investment strategy driving harmonisation of the Ministry’s technology environment and ensuring Government Chief Digital Officer engagement on large and/or high-risk (digital technology) investments.
• Provide expert strategic advice to the DDI and Senior Leadership Team to maximise MBIE’s technology investments.
• Ensure technical alignment of MBIE’s digital strategies and MBIE’s overall strategic intentions and that of the Government Chief Digital Officer.
• Partner with business focused Heads of Digital and Programmes to provide expert leadership for selection of future state solutions and support for complex technology implementations.
• Develop and maintain business centric technology roadmaps ensuring that these meet business groups digital, technology and data strategy needs while also providing strategic technological alignment with other agencies.
• Engage with our cross-government partners and functional leads, ensuring we get the best outcomes and value for New Zealand citizens.
• Research, evaluate, and communicate emerging technologies or strategic/tactical system investments to help shape MBIE-wide business strategies.
• Ensure effective governance arrangements are in place to support robust technology design.
• Ensure the application, integration and use of te ao Māori and te ao Māori practices in the work of the branch and as such MBIE; tikanga, te reo and an appreciation of the Treaty of Waitangi, te Tiriti and the Treaty Principles.
• Represent the views and aspirations of MBIE in external forums.
• Foster a customer-focused culture across the Branch

Strategic leadership – Applies sound strategic management practices

• Provide strategic and thought leadership for the Ministry and across Digital Data and Insights and the wider Ministry extended leadership team.
• Lead the strategic development of Digital, Data and Insights work programme to align with and support MBIE’s strategic direction and adopt a business-like and customer centric culture.
• Guide, challenge and consult the organisation towards both economical decision making, value generation, a common understanding of business opportunities and their consequences.
• Work collaboratively with other Managers across the Ministry and Digital Data and Insights to drive coherent system wide outcomes.
• Collective Leadership – work collaboratively with other members of the business group’s Leadership Team to support achievement of MBIE outcomes.
• Take collective responsibility for the cohesion and performance of MBIE as a whole and provide peer support to other senior managers, managers, stakeholders and practitioners.
• Work collaboratively across MBIE to define the outcomes and outputs expected to deliver on MBIE’s strategic direction.
• Participate collaboratively as a member of the Technology and Architecture Branch to ensure the development of sustainable architecture capability, and achieve expected efficiency benefits and ongoing improvements in cost effectiveness.
• Lead, where possible, using te ao Māori.

General management – Apply sound management practices

• Develop and implement strategies, work programmes and performance targets for Technology and Architecture, with supporting measurement, monitoring and reporting mechanisms. 
• Monitor and adjust work programmes through the agreed processes to enable Technology and Architecture to adapt to changing circumstances. 
• Regularly monitor and report on progress towards achievement of plans and strategies. 
• Manage expenditure and resources in line with approved guidelines, budget, deadlines and reporting requirements, with a focus on driving cost effectiveness for the Ministry. 
• Effectively and proactively identify and manage risks; build continuous review and improvement throughout all elements of Technology and Architecture operations.

People leadership – Provide leadership that engages and motivates others to succeed and develop

• Create a sense of vision, engages and motivates people to participate and make things happen. 
• Foster an open, collaborative environment that encourages quality, innovation, ongoing learning and knowledge sharing. 
• Support all organisational development activities, modelling expected behaviours to managers and staff to create healthy workplace culture and engaged workforce.

Relationship management – Work collaboratively with others to support the achievement of MBIE outcomes 

• Build strategic alliances with key government and non-government representatives to ensure MBIE’s views are influential in their decision-making. 
• Build and maintain effective relationships and partnerships with national and international organisations to identify and share best practice information and to promote the Ministry, its products and services. 
• Lead any engagement programme(s) with identified influencers and key stakeholders. 
• Actively look for opportunities and synergies with internal and external stakeholders that focus on and meet customer needs. 
• Use a one-organisation perspective when contributing to internal forums and governance bodies.
• Represent whole-of-Ministry views and protect its reputation in external interactions. 

Wellbeing, health and safety

• Displays commitment through actively supporting all safety and wellbeing initiatives
• Ensures own and others safety at all times
• Complies with relevant safety and wellbeing policies, procedures, safe systems of work and event reporting
• Reports all incidents/accidents, including near misses in a timely fashion
• Is involved in health and safety through participation and consultation

Tō tūranga i roto i te Manatū - Your place in the Ministry

The Enterprise Architect position reports to the Manager of Technology Strategy within Technology and Architecture Branch. The branch sits within the Digital Data and Insights group.

More information about MBIE’s structure

To mātou aronga – What we do for Aotearoa New Zealand

Hīkina Whakatutuki is the te reo Māori name for the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. Hīkina means to uplift. Whakatutuki means to move forward, to make successful. Our name speaks to our purpose, Grow Aotearoa New Zealand for All.

To Grow Aotearoa New Zealand for All, we put people at the heart of our mahi. Based on the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi / The Treaty of Waitangi, we are committed to upholding authentic partnerships with Māori.

As agile public service leaders, we use our breadth and experience to navigate the ever-changing world. We are service providers, policy makers, investors and regulators. We engage with diverse communities, businesses and regions. Our work touches on the daily lives of New Zealanders. We grow opportunities (Puāwai), guard and protect (Kaihāpai) and innovate and navigate towards a better future (Auaha).

Ngā matatau – Our competencies

Cultivates innovation We create new and better ways for the organisation to be successful by challenging the status quo generating new and creative ideas and translating them into workable solutions.

Nimble learning We are curious and actively learn through experimentation when tackling new problems by learning as we go when facing new situations and challenges.

Customer focus We build strong customer relationships and deliver customer-centric solutions by listening and gaining insights into the needs of the communities we serve and actively seeking and responding to feedback.

Decision quality We make quality and timely decisions that shape the future for our communities and keep the organisation moving forward by relying on an appropriate mix of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgement to make valid and reliable decisions.

Action oriented We step up, taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with purpose, urgency and discipline by taking responsibility, ownership and action on challenges, and being accountable for the results.

Collaborates We connect, working together to build partnerships with our communities, working collaboratively to meet shared objectives by gaining trust and support of others; actively seeking the views, experiences, and opinions of others and by working co-operatively with others across MBIE, the public sector and external stakeholder groups.

Te Tiriti o Waitangi

As an agency of the public service, MBIE has a responsibility to contribute to the Crown meeting its obligations under Te Tiriti o Waitangi (Te Tiriti). Meeting our commitment to Te Tiriti will contribute towards us realising the overall aims of Te Ara Amiorangi – Our Path, Our Direction, and achieve the outcome of Growing New Zealand for All. The principles of Te Tiriti - including partnership, good faith, and active protection – are at the core of our work. MBIE is committed to delivering on our obligations as a Treaty partner with authenticity and integrity and to enable Māori interests. We are committed to ensuring that MBIE is well placed to meet our obligations under the Public Service Act 2020 (Te Ao Tūmatanui) to support the Crown in strengthening the Māori/Crown Relationship under the Treaty and to build MBIE’s capability, capacity and cultural intelligence to deliver this.

Mahi i roto i te Ratonga Tūmatanui – Working in the public service

Ka mahitahi mātou o te ratonga tūmatanui kia hei painga mō ngā tāngata o Aotearoa i āianei, ā, hei ngā rā ki tua hoki. He kawenga tino whaitake tā mātou hei tautoko i te Karauna i runga i āna hononga ki a ngāi Māori i raro i te Tiriti o Waitangi. Ka tautoko mātou i te kāwanatanga manapori. Ka whakakotahingia mātou e te wairua whakarato ki ō mātou hapori, ā, e arahina ana mātou e ngā mātāpono me ngā tikanga matua o te ratonga tūmatanui i roto i ā mātou mahi.

In the public service we work collectively to make a meaningful difference for New Zealanders now and in the future. We have an important role in supporting the Crown in its relationships with Māori under the Treaty of Waitangi. We support democratic government. We are unified by a spirit of service to our communities and guided by the core principles and values of the public service in our work.

What does it mean to work in Aotearoa New Zealand’s Public Service?(external link) — Te Kawa Mataaho The Public Service Commission