Enterprise Architect

LET’S CUT STRAIGHT TO IT

At Severn Trent, our people are at the heart of everything we do. We’re in the top 5% of utility companies worldwide when it comes to employee engagement and ranked as a Top 50 UK Employer on Glassdoor. Join us in making a positive impact on the environment and our communities, while being valued and supported in a truly inclusive workplace.

If you want to do more, because you care, we want you on our team.

LET’S TELL YOU MORE

In our Technology department we’re seeking an Enterprise Architect with Customer Experience and Operations (Utilities) expertise to work with our Head of Technology Business Planning, Strategy and Architecture to develop Severn Trent’s target customer architecture, analysing our business strategies, and ensuring that the future Technology Strategy enables these.

As our newest Enterprise Architect in the team, you’ll play a pivotal role in translating business strategy into enterprise-wide technology direction, ensuring alignment through structured architecture services and governance.

As an Enterprise Architect, you will be responsible for defining and maintaining the enterprise architecture framework, ensuring alignment between business strategy and technology delivery. You will work across multiple domains, engaging with senior stakeholders to influence decision-making and drive architectural governance, innovation, and transformation. You will own the target-state architecture for customer contact, billing, and field service, while leading the evolution of Kraken, Genesys, Twilio, SAP, and Salesforce FSM to deliver resilient, scalable customer experiences and efficient meter‑to‑cash.

You will contribute to and lead across our six core Enterprise Architecture services, including future state planning, vendor insight, enterprise capability alignment, strategic business planning, early-stage solutioning, and governance.

Your key responsibilities will include:-

Lead and evolve enterprise architecture standards, principles, and 12–36 month technology roadmaps across key domains (contact centre, billing, CRM/MDM, integrations, field service).
Provide strategic insight on emerging technologies, industry trends, vendor landscapes, and ensure compliance with security, privacy, and regulatory frameworks.
Shape business and portfolio strategies with senior leaders, ensuring technology investments deliver measurable outcomes across customer experience, operations, and data quality.
Govern architectural practices through design forums and oversight, ensuring consistency, compliance, and alignment to strategic principles.
Champion innovation, mentor architects, support solution shaping for early‑stage demand, and guide major change programmes to manage technical risk and ensure integrated delivery.
Support procurement evaluations, provide team leadership and career coaching, and participate in out‑of‑hours IT leadership responsibilities.

HOW WE WORK

You'll join a caring culture that collaborates to achieve, grow, and develop. Our employee engagement scores are among the highest globally in energy and utilities. That’s why, we value in-person moments to keep our culture alive but also understand the flexibility working from home can bring. So, you'll usually find us in the office, but working from home is supported, when you need it.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

With a proven ability to engage and influence stakeholders at the highest levels, this role demands you to be able to simplify complexity and guide the organisation through large‑scale architectural challenges with confidence. You’ll bring deep mastery of enterprise architecture design and governance, supported by strong awareness of emerging technologies and their strategic impact. Your understanding of leading architectural frameworks—from TOGAF to Zachman—will enable you to align technical direction with corporate governance while helping to foster innovation across the organisation.

You’ll operate across all architecture domains, from data and security to integration and solution design, with particular strength in event‑driven and API‑first integration, identity and consent, data protection, and observability. With a track record of improving contact centre and billing performance through architectural excellence—ideally in utilities, retail energy, or other high‑volume customer operations—you’ll also bring sharp consultancy skills and the ability to communicate clearly and persuasively. Experience optimising usage‑based platform costs (such as Genesys/Twilio) and SaaS consumption will further set you apart.

HOW WE’LL REWARD AND CARE FOR YOU IN RETURN

It's not just a job; it's a career. We offer benefits that reward great work and award-winning training to help you reach your potential. Plus, you'll contribute to the environment and community too. Here are some of our favourites:

25 days holiday + bank holidays (and the ability to buy/ sell up to 5 days per year)
Annual bonus scheme (of up to £1,500, which is subject to eligibility)
Family-friendly policies (including a year off fully paid maternity and adoption leave)
Leading pension scheme – we will double your contribution (up to 15% when you contribute 7.5%)
Sharesave – the chance to buy Severn Trent plc shares at a discounted rate
Dedicated training and development with our Academy
Electric vehicle scheme and retail offers
Two paid volunteering days per year

LET’S GO

We can't wait to hear from you! Have an updated CV ready and spare five minutes to apply. We'll let you know the outcome after the closing date, so keep an eye on your phone and emails.