Solution Architect

Ko Mātou – About Us

Kia Hanga I Te Ao, E Ora Ai, E Tupu Ai, Te Tangata Me Te Kainga. At ANZ, we’re shaping a world where people and communities thrive, driven by a common goal: to improve the financial wellbeing and sustainability of our millions of customers.

Mō te tūranga - About the role

ANZ New Zealand is undertaking one of the largest technology transformations in its history, changing how we build and deliver experiences for customers and employees. Identity sits at the centre of this change: how customers and staff prove who they are, how they sign in, and, increasingly, how AI agents act safely on their behalf.

As a Solution Architect - Identity, you will help shape the future of our Identity Architecture, designing and implementing standardised patterns for how customers, staff, and agents are identified, authenticated, and authorised. Working across business, technology, and security teams, you will provide identity architecture direction and contribute to initiatives that will have a lasting impact across the organisation.

While this is first and foremost an identity role, you’ll also bring a security mindset, understanding how identity solutions can be attacked and making sure the controls we design are robust, proportionate, and aligned with our wider security architecture.

Role Location: This role can be based in Wellington or Auckland.  Let us know what works for you.

Role Type: Permanent

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Ka aha tō rā e kite ai? - What will your day look like

In this role, you will:

• Shape the future direction of ANZ’s Identity Architecture, ensuring customer and workforce identity solutions support both immediate needs and long-term strategic goals.
• Develop identity solution designs, authentication and authorisation flows, and options analyses that balance customer experience, assurance, value, and delivery considerations.
• Build alignment across business, technology, and security stakeholders, guiding identity architecture decisions through governance and endorsement processes.
• Champion modern identity standards and reusable patterns that improve consistency, assurance, and delivery quality, with a secure-by-design focus throughout.
• Apply a security lens to identity designs, assessing threats such as account takeover, credential compromise, and token misuse, and partnering with security colleagues to ensure controls are proportionate to risk.
• Influence identity roadmaps and investment decisions by identifying opportunities to simplify, standardise, and transition legacy identity platforms.
• Support the design and development of a customer mandates and entitlements capability, defining how customers delegate authority and what each party is permitted to do across our channels.

Ōu Pūkenga? - What will you bring?

You will ideally bring deep identity architecture expertise, complemented by solid security knowledge, platform and migration experience, and stakeholder influence, along with:

• Experience designing identity and access solutions within complex enterprise technology environments.
• Strong understanding of modern identity standards and protocols, including OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, and FIDO2/passkeys, and an interest in how they are evolving to support agentic AI.
• Experience with customer and workforce identity platforms, including authentication journeys, federation, and identity lifecycle management.
• A solid grounding in security principles and practices, including threat modelling, secure design, and risk management frameworks, and how they apply to identity and access.
• Familiarity with adjacent security domains, such as privileged access management, cryptography and key management, or fraud and account takeover controls, is a plus.
• Confidence in building relationships and influencing stakeholders across business, technology, and security teams.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex identity concepts and trade-offs in a clear and practical way.
• A collaborative approach and genuine enjoyment of working with others to solve complex challenges. 
• Background in customer mandates, entitlements, or delegated authority models, such as business banking signatory or authorised user arrangements, is a plus.

He aha te take e uru ai koe ki a mātou? - So, why join us?

From the moment you join ANZ, you'll be part of a work whānau striving towards a common purpose: shaping a world where communities thrive.  

But it's not just our customers who'll feel your impact. You'll feel it too. Because at ANZ, you'll have the resources, opportunities, and community you need to take the next big step in your career.  

We're a diverse community at ANZ in different roles, different locations, doing different things. That's why we have a range of flexible working arrangements, so our people can 'make work, work for them'. We also provide a range of benefits including access to wellbeing services and discounts on selected products and services from ANZ and more.    

At ANZ you'll be part of an organisation where the different backgrounds, perspectives and life experiences of our people are celebrated. That's because we're committed to building a workplace that reflects the diversity of Aotearoa New Zealand's communities and this is one of the reasons that has inspired us to develop a multi-year Te Ao Māori Strategy called Tākiri-Ā-Rangi. This includes increasing representation of Māori and Pasifika people at ANZ. Join us and get involved in one of our affinity networks which help us to better understand and meet the needs and interests of our increasingly diverse workforce.

Kua wātea te katoa ki te tono. We welcome applications from everyone and encourage you to talk to us about any adjustments you may require to our recruitment process or the role itself. If you are a candidate with an access requirement or disability, let us know how we can provide you with additional support.  

To find out more about working at ANZ visit https://www.anz.co.nz/careers/.You can apply for this role by visiting ANZ Careers and searching for reference number 107132.

Te Rā Ōtinga - Job Posting End Date

Wednesday 11 November at 11.59pm (NZ)