About the Role

The Product Architect provides architectural leadership to ensure FMG’s digital, data and AI‑enabled products align with enterprise strategy, customer needs, and the Enterprise Architecture Blueprint.

Reporting to the Head of Architecture, this role guides product architecture decisions, shapes solution options, and supports the development of product roadmaps while ensuring compliance with architectural guardrails, security standards, and regulatory requirements. The Product Architect plays a critical role in enabling scalable, secure, and future‑ready products that support FMG’s Digital Strategy and Data, Information and Analytics strategy.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and maintain Product Reference Architectures aligned to the Enterprise Architecture Blueprint.
• Translate business and product requirements into solution architectures that align with enterprise standards and product strategy.
• Conduct architecture and security assessments across FMG’s digital ecosystem, ensuring risk mitigation and alignment with security frameworks and threat modelling practices.
• Design solutions that enable accurate, accessible, and well‑governed data, information, and analytics lifecycles.
• Identify and incorporate emerging technologies, with AI and automation considered as primary design principles.
• Ensure solution options align with the ambitions of FMG’s Digital Strategy and Data, Information and Analytics strategy.
• Support discovery and design phases by defining and assessing solution options for feasibility, capability alignment, and delivery readiness.
• Stay informed on industry trends, emerging technologies, and modern architectural practices to ensure solutions remain scalable and fit for purpose.
• Build strong, collaborative relationships cross FMG, including Product Managers, Pillar Leads, and Mutual Leaders 
• Travel to Palmy at least once a Quarter is required

About You

• An experienced architect with strong capability across product, solution, or enterprise architecture in complex digital environments.
• Confident translating strategy into practical, pragmatic architectural guidance that enables delivery.
• Strong understanding of modern digital platforms, data and analytics architectures, and security‑by‑design principles.
• Comfortable working across business, technology, data, and delivery teams.
• A trusted advisor with excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills
• A relevant tertiary qualification or equivalent experience in architecture, technology, or a related discipline 

Please note - travel to Palmerston North at least once a Quarter will be required.

Why FMG

At FMG, we know our success is because of our people. When you join our team, it’s our priority to ensure you feel supported and part of the FMG family. Along with a rewarding and challenging role, FMG offers a range of benefits including flexible working practices, a 4% company superannuation contribution, five paid professional development days, two paid wellbeing days, and a paid give‑back day each year.

We are looking for people that are passionate about helping to build strong and prosperous rural communities. So, if you want to work within a great team, for an organisation with an amazing culture, in a role that will challenge you, then make it happen - Apply now! Applications close 5pm, Tuesday 7 April 2026. 

Please note – Interviews expected to commence week starting 13th April 2026. 

Please note - no Agency candidates will be accepted at this time.