Solution Architect

**About Foodies**

You know New World, PAK’nSAVE and Four Square right? That’s us We are one of NZ’s biggest companies, you just don’t know it, because in true Kiwi style - we are humble about it (apart from right now maybe) Our Support Centre is 1,000 people strong, which includes 300+ IT employees, who all play a vital role in supporting our network of 330+ stores across the North Island.

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**About the role**

*This role can be based in either Wellington or Auckland*

As a Solution Architect, you will be working in a future-focused team responsible for developing robust, forward-thinking products and services to our customers - and significant value to the Foodstuffs North Island cooperative.

Working closely with the enterprise architecture team and retail in-store systems, you will lead the creation of solutions that enable positive retail customer in store experiences that eloquently balance people, processes and technology to achieve this. Ultimately, your work will drive our business into the future, significantly enabling rapid and agile change across our in-store digital retail customer facing and store operational landscape.

A few key points and responsibilities of this role include:

- You will be recognised as a retail expert in how strategy flows to execution how business and technology retail domain concerns transfer into the solution development process so that the strategic intent is preserved.
- Ensure that business and IT stakeholder expectations are well supported, and that their concerns are reflected in the work produced
- Working with the architecture platform owners, contribute to and elaborate on the future-state platform vision of Foodstuffs’ retail customer architecture landscape

What’s coming up here at Foodies? We’re positioning ourselves to take on a huge project to replace our POS, mobile shopping (scan and go, walk and go solutions), as well as third party vendors for the last mile delivery - think Uber, Doordash, DeliverEasy. Exciting times

**About you**

Combining technical skills with the ability to partner across the business, you’ll bring a strong solution architecture background with retail experience so that you can hit the ground running. Interacting with ease across the business, you’ll bring those around you on the journey, telling stories in a language that is understood, all the while dealing with significant levels of underlying complexity.

Some of the keys to your success will also include:

- Strong technological leadership, skills and experience of POS, Instore Systems and supporting technologies in a retail (and ideally grocery) context
- Demonstrated experience in strategic thinking, examining and evaluating issues and creating plans with a long-term perspective.
- You are recognised as a thought leader with responsibility and ownership for major technology strategies that resulted in significant organisational change, and/or you have led a technical delivery team with successful outcomes
- A solid understanding of related areas including customer marketing, loyalty, campaign management and customer analytics, real time processing
- An extensive understanding of architecture concepts, tools and methods
- You will have excellent planning and communication skills - both written and verbal, and be able to tell a story to non-technical audiences - clearly articulating ideas/concepts and value, and effectively present this to others.

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