Domain Architect - Microsoft & Cloud

At Weetabix, we believe that diverse teams drive better ideas, stronger decisions, and a more inclusive workplace for everyone. We are committed to building an organisation where people from all walks of life feel they belong, where different voices, experiences, and backgrounds are valued and respected.

Closing date: 28th July

Interview process: TEAMS followed by Face to Face at our site in Burton Latimer.

Working pattern: You will spend three days a week in the office, creating great opportunities to collaborate, strengthen team connections and build high-impact working relationships face to face. We are happy to make reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process. Just let us know how we can support you.

Weetabix is on an exciting growth journey, and many of the opportunities we are recruiting for are newly created roles. These positions reflect our investment in people, capabilities and innovation as we continue to build for the future.

The Recipe (About the Role)

As Domain Architect Microsoft and Cloud, you will define, govern, and evolve the architectural vision across Microsoft, Cloud, and End User Compute domains. You will ensure that the organisation's technology foundations are secure, scalable, and resilient, aligned to both current priorities and long-term business strategy. You will play a key role in guiding the transformation of digital capabilities, ensuring the Information Technology (IT) landscape enables business growth, operational effectiveness, and modern ways of working. Working closely with stakeholders, you will provide strategic direction while maintaining strong architectural governance and standards.

• Define and own the architecture strategy across Microsoft technologies, cloud, End User Computing, identity and access management (Active Directory and Microsoft Entra), and Windows Server, ensuring alignment to business priorities.
• Act as design authority, governing and approving solutions through the Technical Design Authority to ensure consistency with enterprise standards.
• Produce high-level designs and assure the quality and approval of low-level designs, ensuring all outputs meet standards and are fully documented.
• Provide design assurance throughout delivery, ensuring solutions remain aligned to architecture and transition smoothly into aid with full operational readiness.
• Define and embed non-functional requirements, including performance, security, scalability, resilience and operability, ensuring they are measurable and consistently applied.
• Identify technical debt, capability gaps and risks, shaping a strategic roadmap that drives resilience, modernisation, security and cost efficiency.
• Monitor platform health and prioritise improvement initiatives that strengthen performance and long-term sustainability.
• Partner with senior stakeholders to align architecture with business strategy, growth plans and transformation priorities.
• Provide oversight during delivery, ensuring adherence to architecture, early risk identification and effective governance of any deviations.
• Manage supplier and vendor engagement, assisting selection, evaluation and performance, ensuring solutions align to architectural standards.
• Stay current with emerging technologies, trends and regulatory requirements, keeping the architecture modern and adaptable.
• Shape a scalable, secure and cost-effective technology landscape, enabling cloud adoption, modern workplace capabilities and future growth.
• Help strategic deliberation through clear technical insight, risk assessment and cost-benefit evaluation.
• Drive architecture maturity, enabling a more integrated, data-led and cloud-enabled environment that improves teamwork, mobility and productivity.

The Ingredients (What we need from you)

• Deep technical expertise across Microsoft technologies, including cloud platforms, Microsoft Azure, Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft 365 (M365), End-User Computing (EUC) and Windows Server.
• Enterprise architecture experience, designing and governing complex, scalable technology solutions.
• Broad awareness of emerging technologies, industry trends and evolving regulatory requirements.
• Experience applying architecture frameworks, governance standards and structured design methodologies.
• Proven ability to produce high-quality High-Level Designs (HLDs), guide Low-Level Design (LLD) development and manage architecture governance.
• Stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence and guide deliberation at all levels.
• Rational mindset with the ability to assess complex systems and long-term architectural impacts.

Desirable:

• Experience working in a manufacturing or FMCG IT/OT environment.
• Exposure to modern identity, security frameworks, and Zero Trust principles.
• Knowledge of automation, containerisation, and modern application hosting patterns.
• Enterprise Architecture certification (e.g., TOGAF), Azure certifications, or equivalent.
• Vendor and commercial evaluation experience.
• Familiarity with data architecture concepts to support future cross-domain integration.

Your Bowl of Perks (Benefits)

• Competitive salary & Annual Flexible benefits.
• Annual bonus.
• Double-matched pension scheme (up to 12% from us).
• 25 days annual leave increasing with service.
• Annual Salary review.
• Healthcare plan.
• Discounted Weetabix products.

To support our employees, we also offer:

• Continued investment in your personal development.
• Balance, whether it's for family, rest or simply time for you. As well as your holiday entitlement, you can purchase up to 5 days of additional annual leave.
• Access to 24/7 counselling service (via Grocery Aid partnership).
• The freedom of Flexible Work Opportunities.
• Enhanced Maternity / Paternity / Adoption Leave.
• Additional Time Off for Fertility Treatment and Neonatal Care.
• Working Parents Support Group.
• Fully stocked kitchens filled with our delicious products for you to enjoy.

Please note: We benchmark roles based on your skills and experience, so we do not advertise fixed salary ranges. Unfortunately, we are unable to provide sponsorship for this position; therefore, we are seeking candidates who do not require sponsorship. We utilise our Preferred Agency Supplier Partners as and when we require additional support.