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Air New Zealand is accelerating its journey to become the world's leading digital airline. At the centre of this ambition, our Architecture Chapter defines the technology foundations that enable exceptional customer experiences, drive enterprise-wide transformation, and equip the airline to adapt and thrive in a rapidly evolving industry. 

Reporting to the Chapter Lead Enterprise Architecture within our Architecture function, this role is a trusted strategic partner across Air New Zealand’s business areas and will work collaboratively with Tribe leaders to envision, plan and design the Air New Zealand Tribe eco-system to enable customer centric service outcomes. 

Key Roles and Responsibilities: 

• Develop the architecture vision for the Tribe, consulting on strategy and long-term roadmaps in conjunction with the wider Architecture community  
• Work as a strategic lead within the Tribe, supporting the Tribe Lead and Tribe Digital Lead to develop the capabilities required to step change delivery of Air New Zealand digital products 
• Participate and lead architecture governance processes to ensure decisions impacting our digital estate are within the digital dexterity guard-rails and aligned with the strategic platform direction  
• Evangelise and communicate effectively the Architecture value proposition to enable and align the Tribe vision and strategies to both technical and non-technical stakeholders  
• Participate in vendor selection processes by providing strategic guidance and using architecture tools such as capability maps, to guide the definition of selection criteria and evaluation 
• Work closely with Tribe leadership team to provide visibility of the options available in the market, do the necessary research and facilitate balanced build vs buy vs subscribe discussions and decision making  
• Set and govern architecture guardrails for shared, enterprise-level “intentional” architecture 
• Provide autonomy and expertise to product managers to make product level “emergent” architecture decisions  
• Represent Air New Zealand in events of relevance for the industry or for our technology landscape (both attending and/or presenting) 

Key Skills and Experience: 

• The ability to rapidly gain the trust of Tribe and Executive stakeholders and communicate effectively to this audience is paramount 
• Exceptional ability to collate and express complex problems and systems into digestible concepts and enable decision making at all levels 
• Consult on digitising end-to-end services to improve operating model delivery    
• Strategic thinking is a core skill required for this role along with a broad, diverse product and digital background 
• Experience providing architectural leadership to enterprise procurement efforts 
• An understanding of commercial and financial concepts is highly desirable