Te Tākinatanga | Our Story

At Contact, we believe home is the most important place in the world. That belief shapes everything we do, from leading the energy transition to how we power Aotearoa and care for our people and communities. 

We’re a power, broadband, and mobile company, but we’re also investing boldly in renewable energy and smarter, more connected ways of working (mahi). Our ambition is simple: to leave Aotearoa better than we found it. 

Guided by our tikanga, we’re a team who care deeply about the work we do, how we support one another, and the impact we have. Simply put, we touch lives to make life better. 

Our Enterprise Architecture Chapter provides the vision, guardrails, and leadership that ensure our technology decisions are strategic, scalable, and future‑ready. We’re now looking for two Enterprise Architects to help shape the next evolution of our enterprise platforms, data, cloud, and integration landscape.

Te Whiwhinga mahi | The Opportunity

As an Enterprise Architect, you’ll sit at the heart of Contact’s technology strategy. You will provide architectural leadership across business, data, application, integration, and technology domains - ensuring our solutions are cohesive, secure, scalable, and aligned to our enterprise direction.

You will work closely with the Enterprise Architecture Chapter Lead to evolve our enterprise architecture capability, shape future strategies and roadmaps, and uplift architectural maturity across the organisation. You’ll guide Domain Leads, support initiative shaping, and ensure architectural integrity across a diverse portfolio of work.

In this role, you will:

• Shape and contribute to Contact’s technology vision, strategy, and enterprise roadmaps
• Prioritise and size initiatives to guide future capability and investment decisions
• Ensure domain architectures align with enterprise principles, standards, and strategic priorities
• Champion an enterprise‑wide architecture approach that supports business outcomes
• Act as an escalation point for complex or cross‑domain architectural decisions
• Identify opportunities to uplift capability, reduce complexity, and unlock value
• Drive innovation across cloud, data, integration, and security
• Support Domain Leads to identify capability gaps and shape actionable roadmaps
• Build strong, trusted relationships across technology and business teams
• Mentor and uplift architectural capability across domains
• Navigate trade‑offs and maintain architectural integrity across the portfolio

Ko wai koe | About You

You’re a strategic thinker with a strong architectural toolkit and the ability to influence at all levels. You bring a balance of big‑picture thinking and practical delivery experience, and you know how to guide teams through complexity with clarity and confidence.

You’ll bring:

• 5+ years’ experience as a senior architect in a large, complex organisation
• Demonstrated experience working closely with business stakeholders
• Experience delivering practical, enterprise‑scale solutions to complex problems
• Strong understanding of architectural frameworks, processes, and cloud architecture
• Commercial acumen and experience working with external partners
• Outstanding relationship‑building and communication skills
• Curiosity, openness, and a willingness to contribute fresh ideas
• Strong problem‑solving, lateral thinking, and strategic insight
• Experience in the energy sector (highly desirable)

We’re working in partnership with JOYN to support recruitment for this role. JOYN acts on Contact’s behalf as part of the hiring process. All candidate information is collected and managed by Contact and will be used solely for the purposes of your application, in line with our privacy obligations.

We support flexible working where it works for the individual, the team and the business. Our main hubs are in Wellington, Auckland and Tauranga, and this role is best suited to someone who can work flexibly from one of these locations. We also have smaller sites across other major centres of Aotearoa and are open to applications from across Aotearoa (mōtu) where candidates can work flexibly from those centres. 

This ad will close on Tuesday 9th June but we’re considering applications as they come in, so hop to it if you're keen!

Contact is not a place you’ll stagnate. We are growing and offer superb learning and development opportunities along with a bunch of other perks like free health insurance cover, boosted KiwiSaver, access to Contact Shares, a ‘Good to be Home’ annual payment toward your home set up & wellbeing, a trail-blazing parental leave policy, twice yearly payments towards our products if you’re a Contact customer, and more!

Here at Contact Energy (Te Mata Hiko), we know our strength lies in developing a sense of belonging - one that helps us attract and retain people with a broad range of perspectives and experiences.

We’re committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to bring their whole selves to work. Our goal is to reflect the diversity of our customers and communities to help build a better Aotearoa New Zealand.

We have a rich community of talented people that we support to thrive at Contact.

Our inclusive hiring process is designed to embrace the diversity of Aotearoa New Zealand, ensuring a wide range of perspectives are included in our decision-making and helping reduce bias along the way.

The wellbeing of our kaimahi is super important to us.

We use employee insights to offer a range of initiatives and resources to support physical, mental, financial and emotional wellbeing – including flexible working arrangements, employee network groups and a market-leading parental leave policy.

At Te Mata Hiko, we want everyone to thrive. We welcome applicants far and wide - of every age, stage, background, and pride. Join us and be part of a team that values your passion and attitude just as much as your experience and skills.

Please note, only candidates with the right to live and work in New Zealand will be considered for this role.

Research shows that while men apply to jobs where they meet 60% of the criteria, women and those in underrepresented groups tend to only apply if they tick every box. We're not about box ticking, so if you think you have what it takes but don't meet everything stated above, please still get in touch. We'd love to kōrero.

Te Mata Hiko (Contact Energy) does not accept any CVs received from recruitment agencies where a formal engagement has not been confirmed and agreed to with our Talent team. In the event that unsolicited CVs are submitted by recruitment agencies, Te Mata Hiko (Contact Energy) reserves the right to contact these candidates directly and consider them for current/future vacancies without any financial obligation to the recruitment agency in question. This will also apply to any CVs sent directly to line managers.