Principal Architect - Business Architecture

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.”.   

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. 

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