Enterprise Applications Architect - Greencore : Job Details

Why Greencore?

We're one of the UK's largest food manufacturers, employing over 14,000 colleagues across 16 manufacturing units and 17 distribution depots across the UK. We supply all the UK's food retailers with everything from sandwiches, soups, and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles, and ready meals. In FY24, we generated revenues of £1.8bn.

Our mission is to make every day taste better.

What you'll be doing

As an Enterprise Applications Architect, you will be at the heart of Greencore's Making Business Easy(MBE) transformation program, ensuring that our application landscape supports the business

strategy efficiently and robustly. You will drive application rationalisation, governance, and capability alignment, ensuring that our solutions are scalable, secure, and future-ready.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Planning & Architecture Development:

• Own the solution-to-capability mapping process, ensuring applications align with business and process architecture.
• Guide Solution Architects to ensure application design and implementation fit seamlessly into the broader enterprise landscape.
• Contribute to Greencore's enterprise architecture vision, ensuring technology supports long-term business transformation.

Technology Evaluation & Implementation:

• Assess emerging technologies and trends within the manufacturing and food industries.
• Provide leadership in selecting, rationalizing, and integrating enterprise applications to reduce duplication and complexity.
• Solution Design & Oversight:
• Collaborate with business and IT stakeholders to understand capability needs and align technical solutions.
• Ensure business, technical, quality, and security compliance across the application portfolio.
• Guide development teams to implement scalable, high-performing, and cost-efficient solutions.
• Governance & Compliance:
• Lead peer reviews and mentorship for Solution Architects before governance approvals (TDA/ARB).
• Develop and enforce IT governance policies, ensuring solutions follow best practices for security, scalability, and sustainability.

Collaboration & Leadership:

• Work closely with Process Architects, Data Architects, Developers, and Business Analysts to deliver integrated and cohesive solutions.
• Facilitate architecture workshops and design meetings to align IT with business strategy.
• Represent IT leadership, contributing to key strategic decisions and fostering collaboration across teams.
• Documentation & Communication:
• Maintain capability maps, enterprise architecture diagrams, and technical reference models.
• Communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and senior leadership effectively.

What we're looking for

We are seeking a strategic thinker and technical leader who can balance enterprise-wide application governance with business agility and innovation.

You should have:

• Extensive experience managing large-scale application estates, including rationalisation, consolidation, and total cost optimisation.
• A proven track record of application strategy execution, aligning business needs with scalable and future-proof solutions.
• Experience leading business transformation through IT, including mergers, acquisitions, and enterprise-wide system upgrades.
• Strong knowledge of architecture frameworks and experience in SaaS, cloud-native applications, and microservices.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and leadership skills, with the ability to influence technical and non-technical audiences.
• A passion for driving governance, standardisation, and best practices within enterprise IT environments.

We're not all the same at Greencore, and our differences help us make every day taste better. We truly put our people at the core and are proud of our diversity.

What you'll get in return

• Competitive salary
• 25 days Holiday + bank holidays
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on-the-job training and development opportunities to further your career.

If this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success.