Kaihoahoa Whakauru | Integration Architect

• Are you a high-performing, motivated individual who can work across varying levels of the organisation?
• Do you have a proven track record of designing and delivering enterprise-level integration and API solutions?
• Can you enable secure, reliable, and scalable data flows across platforms, products, and external partners?

Kōrero mō te tūranga - About the role

Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington is currently recruiting an Kaihoahoa Whakauru - Integration Architect to join Te Tai Matihiko - Digital Solutions team in a permanent, full-time role.

This can be a hybrid working role.

Key responsibilities:

• Define and maintain the organisation’s Integration Architecture Strategy and standards.
• Provide architectural oversight and assurance for integration designs across initiatives.
• Define approved integration patterns, usage guidelines, and design constraints.
• Promote Continuous improvement through reuse of APIs, events, schemas, and integration services across teams.

Ō pūmanawa - About you

You will be a high-performing, motivated, individual who can work across varying levels of the organisation. You will be able to define, govern, and evolve the organisation’s integration architecture to enable secure, reliable, and scalable data flow across platforms, products, and external partners.

Key requirements:

• Demonstrated experience in a senior technical or architecture role, with responsibility for integration or solution design across complex environments.
• Proven track record of designing and delivering integration and API solutions at an enterprise level.
• Strong experience within integration ecosystems.
• Strong understanding of integration architecture principles, patterns, and styles, including API led, event driven, synchronous, and asynchronous integrations.
• Proven ability to design RESTful APIs using JSON and XML, including schema and contract considerations.
• Experience defining and applying integration standards, patterns, and reference architectures.
• Experience working with modern development technologies sufficient to guide and review designs, including .NET / .NET Framework, C#, JavaScript, PowerShell, Node.js SQL and NoSQL data stores (e.g. Cosmos DB).
• Strong understanding of CI/CD concepts and practices (e.g. Azure DevOps).
• Familiarity with tooling such as Git/GitHub and Postman to support design assurance and troubleshooting.

Role Description: Click here to see further information, including salary details.

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Close date for vacancy: 06 November 2026.

Contact details for vacancy: If you have any questions regarding this role, please get in touch with Ryan Nicholson (ryan.nicholson@vuw.ac.nz).

How to apply: Please ensure you are applying for this role directly on our careers page and not via email. Candidates must submit supporting documents along with their resume, such as a cover letter.

We can only consider applicants who are citizens or residents of New Zealand or Australia or on a current working visa. Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and we may progress with suitable applicants prior to the application closing date. Applications from recruitment agencies are not accepted.

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