Senior Digital Architecture Manager

Enabling superior business performance by providing hospitality sector leading digital technology and hospitality sector aligned core technology, which pour happiness into the lives of our customers and employees

It’s our people that make us an incredible place to work, and everything we do is underpinned by our values, giving our teams the freedom to be themselves and own their success.

• We care about embracing individuality and each other
• Customer First - Our customers are the heart of our Greene King
• We take ownership and give freedom to succeed – You will make great things happen and own the outcome. We encourage you to embrace and unleash your potential by thinking differently and doing the right thing
• We win, learn and celebrate together – Be ready to learn from your mistakes, strive to win and celebrate success as an individual and with your team

Greene King is undertaking a large-scale technology and digital transformation with this role playing a critical part in leading the modernisation of the IT function to enable the delivery and subsequent support of the business transformation. Reporting to the IT Director and being a key member of the IT Exec, you will play a leading role in defining the technology vision, ways of working and its implementation into the organisation.  Collaborating with colleagues and stakeholders to innovate, propose and shape the enterprise technology designs that underpin the business strategy.

You will have experience in running a business-focussed Architecture function. Key is the ability to shape the transition to advanced technologies including, digital, web, integration platforms and applications to enable the organisation to transition to an enterprise data model approach.

You’ll receive a competitive salary, pension contribution as well as:

• The chance to further your career across our well-known brands – as one of the industry's top apprenticeship providers, we can provide training and development at each level of your career.
• Discount of 33% for you and 15% for your loved ones on all of our brands – so you enjoy your favourite food and drink at a discount.
• Free employee assistance program – mental health, well-being, financial, and legal support because you matter!
• Discount of 50% for you and 25% for your loved ones at our Greene King Inns and hotels – so you can enjoy a weekend away without breaking the bank.
• Refer a friend – who do you know who could be interested in a new role? When they are placed, you could be eligible for £1,500 for referring them!
• Wagestream – access your wage before payday for when life happens.
• Retail discounts – Receive up to 30% off at Superdrug, exclusive discounts with three mobile along with many more…

In your role as Senior Digital Architecture Manager you will... 

• Create and implement a technology vision and roadmap aligned to the organisation strategy
• Own and drive the IT systems architecture to support the business strategy
• Drive the transition to best of breed digital technologies that improve processes across the company
• Provide direction on what technologies could be introduced and integrated to evolve and extend our existing proprietary technology and platforms, ensuring that we stay at the forefront of the changing IT and Digital landscape
• Establish and govern Technical Architecture principles throughout the organisation.
• Designing and developing unified visions for software and product solutions. You will see the “big picture” and create architectural approaches for software design and implementation
• Lead the Solution Architect function covering both the solution and data architecture through support, guidance and mentoring
• Create business architecture models that reflect our product and platform strategies and goals
• Ensure information is captured, organised, analysed and conveyed in a set of Enterprise Architect documents and model                                                                                              
• Create methods for compliance architecture, such as data storage, metadata management, and change control
• Implement architectural views covering people, process, information and technology that are accessible yet built with architectural rigour
• Understand business and commercial objectives, developing solutions that enhance and extend our product and platform offering
• Develop relationships with industry partners to identify opportunities to enhance the Greene King value proposition
• Work across IT and Digital teams as well as partners to develop implementation strategies to accelerate time to value
• Support the wider IT teams to successfully raise the organisation’s platform offering to the next level
• Be an active member of the IT Executive team and help lead the thinking and management for the department

What you'll bring...

• Proven professional experience in designing and implementing large-scale solutions
• Successful, proven track record designing complex transformational Digital solutions
• Experience with common integration strategies between modern & legacy platforms
• Good understanding of principles of data management and best practise
• Overall system design and architecture skills with the ability to architect or explain complex systems interactions, including data flows, common interfaces, APIs and infrastructure.
• Demonstrated ability to adapt, learn new technologies and be passionate about new trends.
• Good knowledge of development practices within the Software Delivery Lifecycle
• Excellent knowledge of Agile development practices but also the application of hybrid approaches
• Experience of leading and working with third party providers and architects – providing an overall framework for solution design and governing technical architect design within that context
• Understanding of how to enable continuous delivery from a technical and architectural stand point
• Experience of architecture across a range of core technologies
  • Web
  • App
  • Integrations & APIs
  • Customer Data platforms

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