Solution Architect - Integration | Wellington

Our Why

Datacom works with organisations and communities across Australia and New Zealand to make a difference in people’s lives and help organisations use the power of tech to innovate and grow.

The Role

As a Solution Architect specialising in Integration, you are the face of Datacom's integration capability. This is not a back-office delivery role. You will work directly with some of the region's most significant organisations — shaping ideas, running discovery workshops, influencing architecture decisions, and translating complex business problems into elegant, scalable solutions.

You know how to zoom out to see the big picture, then zoom in when the detail matters. You're equally comfortable leading a pre-sales conversation with a C-suite client as you are rolling up your sleeves to bring a solution to life. And as a senior team member, you'll mentor others and help drive the strategic direction of our practice — including how AI is reshaping the way we design and deliver integration solutions.

If you thrive on complex challenges, energise in front of senior stakeholders, and get excited about where integration and AI are heading — this role was built for you!

What You'll Do:

Client-Facing Consulting & Pre-Sales

• Act as a trusted integration advisor — the expert clients want in the room.
• Lead discovery workshops, architecture deep-dives, and design sessions.
• Partner with sales teams on pre-sales, solution shaping, and bid responses.

Solution Architecture & Design

• Design robust, secure, and scalable integration architectures across a modern toolset.
• Apply API-led connectivity, event-driven architecture, and asynchronous messaging patterns.
• Define future-state architectures aligned to cloud, modernisation, and AI strategies.

Delivery Leadership & Mentoring

• Lead complex integration implementations across the full SDLC.
• Uphold best practices, security standards, and enterprise architecture principles.
• Mentor delivery teams and lift capability across the practice.

Modernisation, AI & Innovation

• Assess legacy landscapes and build actionable modernisation roadmaps.
• Prototype and present AI-enabled integration use cases.
• Help lead Datacom's push to put AI at the forefront of our integration solutions.

What You'll Bring:

Technical Expertise

• 7+ years delivering enterprise integration solutions.
• Hands-on with integration platforms and technologies — e.g. MuleSoft, Azure Integration Services, Kafka, Solace, Kong, Java Spring, Dell Boomi etc.
• Strong API design knowledge — REST, versioning, security, and governance.
• DevOps and CI/CD (Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Git CI/CD).
• Cloud — Azure or AWS.
• Containers — Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, EKS, AKS.
• Practical AI experience in integration contexts is a real plus.

Consulting & Communication

• Proven experience consulting directly with enterprise customers.
• Confident leading workshops and executive-level conversations.
• Able to make complex technical concepts land clearly with any audience.

Future-Focused Mindset

• Genuinely curious about AI-enabled integration and intelligent applications.
• Adaptable, continuously learning, and always looking at what's next.

Nice to Have

• Technical pre-sales or bid response experience.
• Enterprise or regulated industry background.

Why Datacom?

Datacom is one of Australia and New Zealand’s largest suppliers of Information Technology professional services. We have managed to maintain a dynamic, agile, small business feel that is often diluted in larger organisations of our size. It's our people that give Datacom its unique culture and energy that you can feel from the moment you meet with us. At Datacom, you’ll work with some of the largest and most complex integration challenges across Australia and New Zealand. You’ll be trusted, supported, and encouraged to shape solutions — not just deliver them. You’ll also be part of a team actively investing in AI‑powered modernisation and intelligent platforms, with space to grow your influence and thought leadershi

We care about our people and provide a range of perks such as social events, chill-out spaces, remote working, flexi-hours and professional development courses to name a few. You’ll have the opportunity to learn, develop your career, connect and bring your true self to work. You will be recognised and valued for your contributions and be able to do your work in a collegial, flat-structured environment. We operate at the forefront of technology to help Australia and New Zealand’s largest enterprise organisations explore possibilities and solve their greatest challenges - so you will never run out of interesting new challenges and opportunities.

We want Datacom to be an inclusive and welcoming workplace for everyone and take pride in the steps we have taken and continue to take to make our environment fun and friendly, and our people feel supported.