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.

About the role

As a SolutionArchitect, you will be working in a future-focused digital team responsible for delivering robust, forward-thinking products and services to our customers – and significant value to Foodstuffs businesses.

Working closely with digital product, UX, delivery and enterprise architecture teams, you will lead the creation of solution designs that will enable our teams to deliver positive digital and e-commerce outcomes for our customers, elegantly balancing people, processes and technology.Ultimately, your work will drive our business into the future, significantly enabling rapid and agile change across our digital customer-facing landscape.

You will map out the elements of the digital customer journey to the latest cloud-based SaaS technology and create outstanding digital solutions which shine in terms of scalability, cost and simplicity.

About you

Combining technical skills with the ability to partner across the business, you’ll bring a strong solution architecture background with customer-facing digital 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 B2C customer-facing digital technologies.

- Demonstrated experience in strategic thinking, examining and evaluating issues and creating plans with a long-term perspective.

- Experienced as a tech lead, software architect, application architect or other development leadership role with architecture and design experience.

- Strong modelling and diagramming skills.

- Experience in exposing data and operations through APIs and RESTful services.

- Strong skills and experience in solution designs usingmodern technologies(e.g.Data Streaming,Kafka, Kinesis or Apache Spark)and with data at scale.

- Familiarity with the technologies used in our technology stack (Kubernetes, Java, .Net Core, Node.JS , React).

Bonus points

- Ability to apply solutions in the context of platforms like Sitecore, Salesforce or SAP.

- A generalised understanding of related areas including customer marketing, loyalty, campaign management and customer analytics, real-time processing.

- Certification in a recognised architecture framework – TOGAF, ITAC, IBM AD 2.0,CapGeminiIAF or similar would be beneficial.

Playing a vital part in translating forward-thinking business and project requirements into reality, your work will drive our business into the future, significantly enabling rapid and agile change across our digital customer-facing landscape.

What's in it for You?

In return, we offer a competitive salary package, including fully subsidised health insurance, flexible working arrangements, free parking, participation in the company superannuation fund, birthday leave, and long service leave! Additionally, we provide abundant learning and development opportunities to help drive your career forward.

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We’re proud to have a focus on Diversity & Inclusion here at Foodies and welcome applications from you all regardless of who you are or what you do. We welcome courageous behaviour, encourage togetherness, inspire our people to be their best selves in our Foodies whānau, but most importantly we celebrate our people - our taonga, every day for being uniquely them.