Enterprise Architect

Enterprise Architect | Permanent | Hybrid Industry: Utilities Location: London - Hybrid Job type: Permanent Cititec has partnered with a leading utilities business, who are looking to bring an experienced Enterprise Architect into their technology team. This is a strategic architecture role covering the full energy supply lifecycle, from customer acquisition and propositions through to metering, billing, payments, collections, settlements and regulatory requirements. You'll work across technology and business teams to create a simpler, more connected technology environment that can support evolving customer needs and long-term business growth. You'll be responsible for setting architectural direction, influencing major technology decisions and creating practical roadmaps that take the organisation from its current landscape towards a more scalable and sustainable future. What you’ll do: - Define the target architecture and technology roadmap for Energy Supply. - Shape technology strategy across customer, commercial, operational, finance and data platforms. - Influence platform selection, investment and technology reuse decisions. - Identify opportunities to simplify, consolidate and modernise the technology estate. - Translate business requirements into practical, scalable architecture solutions. - Work closely with Product, Engineering, Commercial, Finance, Operations and Data teams. - Provide architectural governance and challenge across major programmes and technology initiatives. - Ensure solutions consider security, resilience, compliance, cost and long-term sustainability. - Influence senior stakeholders and communicate complex architectural decisions clearly. Requirements: - Strong experience as a Domain, Solution, Lead or Enterprise Architect. - Proven experience designing architecture across complex, enterprise-scale environments. - Experience within Energy, Utilities or another regulated, high-volume industry. - Good understanding of energy supply processes such as metering, billing, payments, contracts or settlements. - Experience developing target architectures and technology transformation roadmaps. - Track record of technology rationalisation, platform strategy and architectural governance. - Strong commercial and strategic thinking, including an understanding of technology investment and total cost of ownership. - Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior technical and business leaders. - Strong understanding of security, resilience and regulatory requirements. - Comfortable using AI tools responsibly to support analysis and productivity. For more information please message me on LinkedIn.