Salary: £32,000 - 75,000 per year Requirements: We are ideally looking for candidates who are educated to degree level or equivalent, with significant experience across different types of IT projects, including infrastructure, public cloud services, and applications (including SaaS). You should have experience working cross-functionally and be familiar with agile project management. A minimum of 3 years of experience working as an architect at a similar level is required, along with a history of supporting business transformation on a significant scale, particularly in the implementation and consolidation of major applications in an enterprise environment. You should also have experience in developing and maintaining enterprise-wide capability maps and specific technology roadmaps, as well as developing complex solution architectures in modern compute paradigms, such as combining SaaS, cloud, low-code, and data platforms. It’s important that you possess sufficient technical skills to evaluate all aspects of a solution and guide technical teams in their detailed design and delivery processes, as well as supportability of new solutions. A confident decision-making ability that encompasses the entire end-to-end lifecycle of a solution within the organization is essential. Responsibilities: As a Solutions Architect at Greencore, I expect you to provide architectural guidance, direction, design, and governance to both internal and external partners across a range of applications and technologies. Your responsibilities will include: Defining the future state for applications and infrastructure to deliver business outcomes and capabilities. Producing capability roadmaps and supporting documentation to outline the pathway to our future state. Maintaining capability maps and supporting documentation for functional areas and key elements of the IT architecture. Owning the production and quality of High-Level Design documents (HLD) to identify solutions that cover all aspects, including support, disaster recovery, and licensing considerations. Collaborating with business stakeholders to design solutions that meet business requirements, considering the full lifecycle, including strategic direction, total cost of ownership (TCO), and supportability. Delivering designs that ensure appropriate levels of security, resilience, and recovery capabilities. Identifying and monitoring new IT trends that could benefit Greencore and presenting these insights to the team. Working closely with delivery teams to ensure successful handover of designs and providing guidance to uphold company standards. Driving innovative thinking and helping colleagues prototype ideas for real business advantage. Defining and maintaining technical policies, procedures, and standards while ensuring adherence. Providing technical and financial estimates for proposal documents. Offering technical governance and assurance into delivery and operations functions to ensure clarity on designs, policies, and procedures. Technologies: Architect Cloud Support Security More: At Greencore, we are proud to be a leading manufacturer of convenience food in the UK, dedicated to making everyday taste better. Our extensive client base includes all major supermarkets, convenience and travel retail outlets, discounters, coffee shops, foodservice, and other retailers. We have a strong market position in various categories like sandwiches, salads, sushi, chilled ready meals, and more. We are investing in our Making Business Easier Programme to streamline and simplify core processes, making it easier to access quality business data and enabling the right technology for our future. This initiative offers significant opportunities for colleagues in our technology function to engage actively in a wide-ranging digital transformation programme within a FTSE 250 business. You will collaborate with teams across the company and leverage best practice approaches while shaping innovative solutions that support our goal of strengthening our Technology department. In return for your efforts, we offer a competitive salary and job-related benefits, including holidays, a car allowance, an annual target bonus, pension contributions, life insurance coverage, PMI cover, access to a share save scheme, exclusive employee discounts, and a full Wellbeing Centre platform. last updated 7 week of 2026