Enterprise Architect

About the roleAt Craigs (CIP) we are focused on helping our clients to achieve their financial goals and grow their wealth. We believe that where a client’s financial future is concerned, our people are fundamental to achieving this. Our collective skills, knowledge and commitment means that we can provide the best possible outcomes for our clients.

The Enterprise Architect role is located within the Digital Business Team, and the primary focus is to develop, own and maintain the enterprise architecture across the business, information, application and technology domains, ensuring technology investment aligns with CIP’s strategic objectives and Target Operating Model.  This is a full-time permanent role, based at our Tauranga office.

Reporting to the Head of Digital, Data and AI role, the Enterprise Architect will be primarily responsible for:

• Maintaining the enterprise architecture roadmaps and blueprints within the appropriate documentation systems
• Operating across the full technology landscape rather than within any single project or programme.
• Maintaining an awareness of technology advances and in particular AI to ensure decisions are well informed as regard the direction and capability of new technology.
• Defining architectural principles, standards and reference architectures, governs their adoption across the organisation
• Providing solution design assurance and governance as required.
• Supporting the technology evaluation and selection to support a coherent, rationalised technology landscape.

About you

This role will suit an experienced Enterprise Architect with 8+ years' experience, including demonstrated enterprise architecture experience within a similar sized organisation as well as have:

• Strategic thinking, innovative, leadership, builds relationships, technologist
• Strong experience in the whole SDLC with specific exposure to Agile methods.
• Recent experience of Machine Learning and Generative AI technology would be favourable.
• Commercial / business acumen
• Strong influencing and relationship management skills
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels of the business
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail
• A proven ability to define and govern enterprise-wide architecture and roadmaps, to deliver results.

About the Company

Craigs Investment Partners (Craigs) is a multi-award-winning investment advisory firm which is one of the largest in New Zealand. With over 20 offices located throughout the country and over 600 employees, Craigs offers solutions and advice to both private investors, as well as corporate and institutional clients.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Health Insurance
• Craigs Community / Volunteer Day
• Additional week of leave (conditions apply)
• Other leave (such as sick, bereavement, and family violence leave) from first day of employment
• Parental leave - 26 weeks’ pay ‘top up’ for eligible Primary Carers
• Long Service Leave
• Annual Health Check and flu vaccinations
• Flexible work options
• Savings benefits and preferential insurance rates

Why Craigs?

We pride ourselves on creating an environment where our people feel they belong and can bring their best self to work and feel valued. We grow as a team and with our clients and are always looking to support our communities – both internal and external. Our values build the foundation of how we work and how we provide great outcomes for our people and our clients.

• We are stronger together
• We strive for excellence
• We put people first
• We do what’s right

If you would like to find out more about working at Craigs, visit our Careers page – https://craigsip.com/careers

How to apply

If you are interested in the role, please submit your application online now as we will be interviewing suitable candidates as they apply.

For a copy of the Job Description visit ho_enterprise-architect---july-2026.pdf