Solution Architect

Overview

Why Greencore?

Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we’re one 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’re proud 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 the very 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, within a FTSE 250 business, 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 teamwork as Greencore builds, matures, strengthens and bolsters their Technology department.

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

• Providing architectural guidance, direction, design, and governance to both internal and external partners across a range of applications and technologies.
• 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.
• Production and maintenance of 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) 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 the business, take into consideration the full lifecycle, including strategic direction, TCO and supportability.
• Delivering designs that provide appropriate levels of security, resilience and recovery 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 governance to 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.
• Defining and maintaining technical policies, procedures and standards and providing assurance on adherence.
• Providing technical and financial estimate input into proposal documents.
• Providing technical 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 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 e.g. 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.
• Exclusive Greencore 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.