We’re on a mission to become the world’s leading digital airline; from crew to customer, Architecture is at the centre of that journey.
We’re looking for experienced architects who are confident in their craft, collaborative in style, and comfortable navigating complexity to gain clarity.
As a Senior Solution Architect in our Architecture Chapter, you’ll play a key role in designing and guiding the technology solutions that underpin our most important customer and operational experiences. You’ll work across squads, tribes and platforms to shape technically robust solutions, aligned to business goals, and designed to adapt as our platforms and needs evolve.
The role you will play:
You’ll be working with a wide range of technologies, including public cloud services, aviation industry SaaS products, internally developed apps and containerised microservices with a variety of integration approaches:
- Designing and guiding robust, maintainable solutions across a variety of technologies, including SaaS, cloud-native apps, microservices and APIs
- Collaborating with stakeholders and SMEs to align solutions to business goals and technology strategy
- Assessing trade-offs to enable adaptive, secure and value-driven outcomes
- Operating with purpose within our governance frameworks while evolving them to meet new ways of working
- Lifting architectural maturity by sharing patterns, mentoring others and contributing to our chapter's craft and capability
What you will bring to this role:
- Strong integration experience, especially with SaaS platforms
- Confidence navigating unfamiliar business domains and emerging tech
- Ability to work across disciplines like software engineering, cyber security and operations
- A holistic view of architecture and how it impacts wider systems and business outcomes
- Clear, purposeful communication and documentation skills
- Proven ability to build trust with stakeholders and influence at multiple levels
- A strategic mindset, grounded in a strong understanding of enterprise goals
What we can offer you
This is a chance to work in a unique environment that blends aviation with cutting-edge technology, contributing to how an iconic New Zealand organisation operates. The decisions you make here don’t just appear in diagrams - they show up in airports and on aircraft, and in the hands of customers and staff.
You’ll join an Architecture Chapter that’s deeply embedded in our ways of working and is making a real impact as part of Air New Zealand’s journey to become the world’s leading digital airline. We’re outcome-focused, with supportive leadership and a strong sense of community. We back our people to act with autonomy, integrity and intent.
Ready to apply your craft where it counts? Join us and help build the digital backbone of Air New Zealand.
Applications close 19 August 2025.
Additional Information
At Air New Zealand, we are proudly committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and believe in creating a truly inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves and thrive. Our people are our greatest asset – because while everything else we do in our operation can be replicated by our competitors, it is our people that truly set us apart. We are firm believers in celebrating the differences and diversity of thought our people bring to their roles. We encourage candidates from diverse backgrounds, including those with a disability, additional health and mental health needs, and/or are neurodiverse to apply for our roles.
If you have encountered any accessibility barriers and require further information or reasonable accommodations to our recruitment process, please reach out to the recruiter listed on this job advert so they are able to support you to freely participate equitably in our recruitment and selection process.
Whāia te pae tawhiti kia tata. Ko te pae tata whakamaua, kia tina.
"Seek to bring distant horizons closer. Once near, seize them and make them your reality."
