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Posted Date:  4 Jun 2025
Posting End Date:  18-June-2025
Location:  Coventry
Company:  Severn Trent Water Limited
Department:  Technology
Salary (£):  £65,000 to £80,000

Enterprise Architect

 

Here in Technology our mission is simple – deliver and maintain secure and stable IT services, maximising value to our business. 

  

Dig a little deeper and you will find a living, breathing department, of highly talented individuals and teams, buzzing with energy, ideas, and enthusiasm who are always interested in learning new, innovative, and exciting ways for us to aid our business colleagues, and ultimately our customers experience.   

  

Collectively, we provide a critical national infrastructure to millions of customers in our region, so the only question is why wouldn't you want to be part of that?  

  

If you want to do more because you care, we’d love to talk to you. There really is something for everyone here.  

  

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW   

 

In our Technology department we’re seeking an Enterprise Architect to work with work with our Head of Technology Business Planning, Strategy and Architecture to develop Severn Trent’s target 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. 

 

We welcome people from all walks of life and celebrate individuality as we know diverse minds, experiences and backgrounds help us to learn and better serve our communities. We want people who show up and get involved. Those who are ready to be part of something bigger and who want to make a difference because they care. 

 

Key Responsibilities 

 

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. 

 

  • Lead the development and evolution of enterprise architecture standards, principles, and roadmaps alongside other Enterprise Architects.  You’ll produce strategic artefacts including technology roadmaps, investment cases, and executive papers that inform and influence decision-making. 

  • Provide strategic guidance on emerging technologies and their potential impact on the organisation.  You’ll provide insight into industry trends and vendor landscapes, helping the organisation navigate digital threats and opportunities. 

  • You’ll work closely with business leaders and strategy teams to shape portfolio-level strategies and investment decisions, ensuring technology enables long-term business goals. 

  • Govern architectural practices across programmes and projects, ensuring consistency and compliance.  You’ll participate in and help lead governance forums such as the Design Authority and Technical Advisory Group, ensuring architectural decisions align with strategic principles. 

  • Champion innovation and continuous improvement within the architecture function.  Mentor and support other architects across the practice, contributing to capability development. 

  • Solutioning early-stage requests to ensure items are adequately described to support promotion.  You’ll support early-stage demand shaping by providing high-level architectural input, assessing impact, and recommending next steps to guide solution development. 

  • Provide expert technical leadership and guidance to major change programmes, ensuring architectural alignment, supporting managing technical risks, and facilitating the successful delivery of integrated solutions. 

  • Support procurement activities to describe and assess solutions.   

  • Team leadership of a small number of our Architects. 

 

Essential Competencies: 

  • Stakeholder Management & Influencing: Proven ability to engage and influence at executive level. 

  • Complexity Management: Skilled in navigating and simplifying complex systems and organisational structures. 

  • Enterprise Architecture: Mastery in enterprise-level architecture design and governance. 

  • Emerging Technology Monitoring: Strong awareness of technology trends and their strategic implications. 

  • Architecture Methods: Deep understanding of architectural frameworks and methodologies (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman). 

  • Corporate Governance & Innovation: Experience in aligning architecture with corporate governance and fostering innovation. 

  • Broad knowledge: across technical, solution, data, security, and integration architecture domains. 

  • Strong consultancy and communication skills. 

 

Highly Desirable: 

  • Experience with procurement processes, compliance reviews, and lifecycle management. 

  • Familiarity with business case development and financial planning. 

 

   

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU   

  

Working here isn’t just a job. You can build a career at Severn Trent. We’ll reward you for it, too. We have a range of benefits that recognise great work, and award-winning training to help you reach your potential. And we’ll also help you play your part in looking after the environment and the communities where we live.  

  

With that in mind, here are just some of our favourite's perks that you’ll get being part of the Seven Trent family: 

 

  • 31 days holiday + bank holidays (and the ability to buy/ sell up to 5 days per year) 

  • Annual bonus potential of up to 20% of salary, dependant on company performance 

  • Leading pension scheme – we will double your contribution (up to 15% when you contribute 7.5%) 

  • Car Allowance of £5,208 per annum 

  • Private Medical Insurance  

  • 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 

  • Family friendly policies 

  • Two volunteering days per year 

  

WHAT’S NEXT  

  

We can’t wait to hear from you.      

Before you apply, you’ll need an updated copy of your CV and about five minutes to spare. 

  

If your curiosity has been piqued and you're wanting to find out even more, search #LifeAtSevernTrent on social media.    

  

Ps. we’ll always let you know the outcome of your application after the closing date - so keep an eye on your phone and emails 

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