Solution Architect

Greencore Group plc; Worksop; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food manufacturer in the UK is seeking a Solution Architect to drive its digital transformation initiatives. This position involves providing architectural guidance across a range of technologies, working closely with business stakeholders to design and implement solutions that maximize efficiency and resilience. Candidates should have significant IT project experience, ideally within cloud and agile frameworks. Competitive salary and benefits are offered, including a car allowance and annual bonuses.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Holidays

Car Allowance

Annual Target Bonus

Pension up to 8% matched

Life insurance up to 4x salary

PMI Cover

Company share save scheme

Exclusive employee discounts

Qualifications

• Significant experience across different types of IT projects.
• At least 3 years of experience in a similar architect role.
• Experience in business transformation and enterprise applications.

Responsibilities

• Provide architectural guidance to internal and external partners.
• Define the future state for applications and infrastructure.
• Produce capability roadmaps supporting business outcomes.

Skills

Architecting IT solutions

Agile project management

Public Cloud services

SaaS

Technical governance

Education

Degree or equivalent

Tools

Integration technologies

Data platforms

Low-code development

Job description

Why Greencoreh3>

Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026,we’reone of the UK’s leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make everyday taste better.

As a vibrant and fast-moving business,we’reproud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn.

Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy thevery best, whenever and wherever they shop.

Why is this exciting for your career as a Solution Architect?

The MBE Programme presents a huge opportunity for colleagues across the technology function to play a central role in the design, shape, delivery and execution of an enterprise wide digital transformation programme. The complexity of the initiative, will allow for large-scale problem solving, group wide impact assessment and supporting the delivery of an enablement project to future proof the business. You will have the opportunity to work with colleagues across the business and bring a best practice approach to the function. Designing and shaping the solution and methodologies utilising your experience and expertise gives a platform for success and team ship building as Greencore, build, mature, strengthen and bolster their Technology department.

What you'll be doing as a Solution Architect at Greencore?

As a Solutions Architect at Greencore, you will be providing architectural guidance, direction, design, and governance to both internal and external partners across a range of applications and technologies. You will be:

• Defining the future state for applications and infrastructure delivering business outcomes and capabilities
• Producing capability roadmaps and supporting documentation to define how we will get to future state
• Productionand maintenance of capability maps and supporting documentation for functional areas and key elements of the ITarchitecture
• Owning the production and quality of High-Level Design documents (HLD) that identify the solution and all aspects of the solution including support, disaster recovery and any licensing considerations
• Working with business stakeholders to design solutions that satisfy the requirements of thebusiness, take into consideration the full lifecycle, including strategic direction, TCO and supportability
• Deliveringdesigns that provide appropriate levels of security, resilience andrecovery capabilities
• Identifying and monitoring new trends and directions in IT and industry that could bring benefit to Greencore and present these back to the team
• Working closely with delivery teams, successfully handing over designs, providing guidance and governanceto ensure that designs and company standards are followed, any exceptions recorded and approved as required
• Involved in driving innovative thinking and assisting colleagues to prototype ideas that can bring real advantage to the business
• Definingand maintaining technical policies, procedures and standards and provides assurance on adherence
• Providingtechnical and financial estimate input into proposal documents
• Providingtechnical governance and/or assurance into the delivery and operations functions to ensure designs, policies and procedures are understood and followed

What we’re looking for?

• Ideally educated to Degree level or equivalent, significant experience across different types of IT project. Infrastructure, Public Cloud services, Applications (Inc.SaaS)
• Experience of working cross functionally, experience of agile project management
• A minimum of 3 years experience working as an architect at a similar level
• Supporting business transformation on a significant scale, in particular implementations and/or consolidations of significant applications in an an enterprise environment.
• Experience of developing and maintaining enterprise-wide capability maps and specific technology roadmaps
• Experience of developing complex solution architectures in modern compute paradigms eg. Combining SaaS, cloud, low-code, data platforms, integration technologies to design solutions.
• Sufficient technical skill to evaluate all aspects of a solution and guide technical teams in their detailed design and delivery processes and operations teams in supportability of new solutions.
• Confident in your ability to make decisions that encompass the entire end-to-end lifecycle of a solution and its application within the organisation

What you'll get in return:

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Holidays
• Car Allowance
• Annual Target Bonus
• PSP Target Bonus
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• PMI Cover
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported withon the jobtraining and development opportunities to further your career.