Senior Solution Architect

Business Unit: Foodstuffs South Island Limited Job Type: Full time

About us

We’re a team of 14,000 who make sure South Islanders have access to the groceries and essentials they need. Proudly 100% Kiwi-owned and operated, our co-operative has more than 200 PAK’nSAVE, New World, Four Square, Raeward Fresh and On the Spot stores feeding the South Island. We value being at the heart of our communities, like we’ve always been, to make the South Island a better place – for today and for many generations to come. From sunny Golden Bay all the way to Stewart Island, there’s a Foodstuffs store serving you and your whānau. Our success is down to our people who bring their skills, experience, passion, and expertise to make Foodies an amazing and rewarding place to work. Our co-op has a wide variety of roles to offer, and endless opportunities for development.

About the role:

As a Senior Solution Architect, you’ll ensure the successful implementation of Technology solutions by developing agreed Solution Architectures aligned to enterprise-wide architectures and standards. You’ll be adept at building and maintaining relationships and be confident in both seeking and gaining endorsement from leaders and influential stakeholders across the business. Your role will also include:

• Identifying opportunities and ensuring fit to enterprise architecture and standards
• Being responsible for the traceability of solutions against project objectives
• Ensuring the architecture is implemented in accordance to design over entire lifecycle of project and managing change to design by ensuring stakeholders are informed and agreement to any changes
• Providing technical guidance and leadership to project teams, ensuring best practices and standards are followed

About you:

You’ll be an experienced Solution Architect with a strong background in SAP landscape and Implementation. In addition to holding a similar role in a large and complex IT service environment, and excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills, you’ll bring:

• Demonstrated experience across the software development life cycle (including high-level estimation & business case development)
• Systems integration experience in complex legacy environments involving mainframe transaction processing, web delivery & message integration
• Development and deployment experience on more than one platform (including cloud)
• Experience with both packaged and custom-built software.

Don't Meet Every Requirement? We encourage you to apply anyway. We are looking for individuals with diverse experiences and are keen to hear from those who believe they have the drive and potential to succeed in this role. At Foodstuffs South Island, together we drive success to be our best and care for our whānau. We recognise that it takes a collective effort to achieve success, and we thrive on fostering a culture of collaboration to drive innovation and embracing challenges as a united team. We are committed to supporting our people, and to positively impact the lives of South Islanders every day. We also offer:

• Our Papanui based office has free carparking, an in-house café.
• Our approach to flexible working is based on trusting and empowering our people to manage their time and deliver results while balancing the needs of their personal lives.
• We’re committed to equitable outcomes, and we offer additional paid parental leave, free period products and financial health checks to name a few.
• We support your wellbeing with Southern Cross health insurance for you and your family after a qualifying period, discounts at local gyms, access to online wellbeing tools, and a prayer and privacy room onsite.
• We offer continuous learning and professional growth, as well as access to our extensive online training library and endless opportunities.
• We’re proud of our supportive team environment, and our positive and friendly culture that’s made fun by Furry Friend Fridays and monthly social events!

As a Pride Pledge organisation, we are committed to an inclusive workplace where everyone thrives, every day and we celebrate our diversity as strength.

How to apply:

Ready to take on the challenge? Apply now. Applications will close Friday 3 January 2024 and will only be accepted via our careers site. If you have any questions, please reach out to our recruitment team at centralrecruitment@foodstuffs-si.co.nz. #J-18808-Ljbffr