Principal Architect - Business Architecture

Ko wai mātou – About us

Kia ora.  We’re Foodies.  You know New World, PAK’nSAVE and Four Square right? That’s us! 

With 300+ stores and over 27,000 Foodies across Te Ika-a-Maui, our North Island Co-op has the privilege of helping New Zealanders get more out of life.  Locally owned, we reflect the communities we serve, and we celebrate our people - our taonga, every day for being uniquely them.  

Our Support Centre is 1,500+ people strong, which includes 500+ IT employees, who all play a vital role in ensuring the cogs of our Co-op stay turning and our systems stay ‘byte’-sized and ‘bug’-free.”.  

Te Tūranga – About the role

We're looking for an exceptional Principal Architect – Business Architecture to lead this thinking at an enterprise level.

This is our most senior Business Architecture role, offering the opportunity to shape how we understand, design and evolve our business. You'll lead our Business Architecture capability, establish the standards and direction for the discipline, and work closely with senior leaders to translate strategic ambitions into clear business capabilities, value streams and operating models.

You'll bring together business strategy, people, processes and organisational capability, ensuring that investment and transformation decisions are grounded in business value and contribute to enterprise-wide direction.

What you’ll do

• Leading Business Architecture: Establish and evolve the Business Architecture practice, setting its methods, standards, frameworks and quality expectations while developing a high-performing team of Business Architects.

• Shaping enterprise business capabilities: Own and maintain the enterprise business capability model, using capability maps and heatmaps to identify gaps, overlaps, maturity and investment priorities.

• Defining value streams: Develop and connect value streams to business capabilities, identifying opportunities to improve how value is delivered to our customers, members and stores.

• Connecting strategy to execution: Translate our business strategy and ambitions into clear business outcomes, capability changes and target operating models, ensuring initiatives have a clear connection to strategic priorities.

• Guiding investment and prioritisation: Bring a business capability and value perspective to investment decisions, portfolio planning and governance forums, helping leaders understand where investment will deliver the greatest strategic value.

• Providing enterprise-wide architectural leadership: Take ownership of the overall architectural coherence of your aligned business capabilities and major programmes, working alongside Enterprise, Domain and Solution Architects to ensure business intent translates into coordinated solutions.

Ngā painga - What we offer

We’re committed to providing awesome experiences for our people, including offering a range of benefits

• Inhouse learning and development programmes and courses, flu vaccinations, and social network groups (we call them Tribes).

• Flexible working options, a day off on your birthday, long service leave 

• Free carparking - we’ve got over 1,000 carparks including EV plugs

• Onsite café with subsidised meals, mini mart, 5% discount at our retail stores

He kōrero mōu - About you  

• Extensive experience in Business Architecture, Business Design or Strategy Execution, ideally within a large, complex and multi-faceted organisation.

• Significant experience operating at Principal, Lead or senior leadership level, with the credibility to influence enterprise-wide direction and executive decision-making.

• Deep expertise in business capability modelling, value stream mapping and target operating model design.

• Expertise of translating business strategy into practical capability changes, business outcomes and transformation roadmaps.

• A Solid understanding of how Business Architecture connects with Enterprise, Domain and Solution Architecture, and how to bring these disciplines together to deliver the outcomes.

• Strong relationship-building and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with senior leaders, business stakeholders and delivery teams, and bring people together around shared priorities.

• Strong commercial and strategic judgement, with the ability to work through complex situations, challenge different perspectives and balance competing business priorities.

Experience awesome. Achieve awesome. Be awesomely you.

We’re proud to have a focus on Diversity & Inclusion here at Foodies and welcome courageous behaviour, encourage togetherness, inspire our people to be their best selves in our Foodies whānau.

We encourage you to apply with all your awesomeness and welcome your diverse background, including any disability, additional health and mental health needs, and/or neurodiversity.

If you require accessibility support to ensure you can fairly access our recruitment process, please reach out to  [email protected].  Accessibility support could include, interview location, sign language interpreter, assistive technology.

Don’t ‘cart’ around – apply now!

Are you ready to be part of our bunch – apply now!