Senior Enterprise Architect

Salary: £60,000 - 100,000 per year

Requirements

• Strong experience in enterprise architecture, including defining and embedding reference architectures, platform guardrails, and technology roadmaps across large, complex organisations.
• Demonstrated knowledge of application portfolio management, including lifecycle management, rationalisation, capability mapping, and architectural tooling such as LeanIX, ServiceNow APM, or similar.
• Proven ability to influence within a federated, product-led environment, working with senior stakeholders, architects, engineering teams, and business leaders without direct authority.
• Commercial awareness and strong architectural judgement, including build-vs-buy assessment, total cost of ownership, operational impacts, platform risk, and long-term strategic fit.
• Good understanding of cloud, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, integration patterns, and enterprise data considerations, with experience of emerging technologies such as AI and their practical application in governance and decision making.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement, and coaching skills, with the credibility to guide others and improve architectural maturity.
• Location: hybrid role, with occasional travel to site.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain enterprise platform roadmaps for assigned domains, including sequencing, dependencies, and decision points aligned to business priorities and our technology strategy.
• Own and evolve assigned platforms within our enterprise reference architecture, maintaining platform information, lifecycle status, capability mapping, and architectural guardrails.
• Provide enterprise-level architectural leadership on technology choices, emerging trends, AI adoption, and platform strategy, helping teams balance cost, risk, resilience, and sustainability.
• Support application portfolio rationalisation and lifecycle management, reducing duplication, complexity, and technical debt while improving visibility of legacy platforms, decommission dependencies, and transition risks.
• Work closely with pillar architecture teams, solution architects, engineering functions, and business stakeholders to shape architecture early and build alignment across roadmaps.
• Contribute to architectural governance through enterprise forums, significance assessments, and standards development.
• Coach architects across the wider community and help raise overall architectural maturity across our organisation.

Technologies

• AI
• Architect
• Cloud
• IaaS
• Support
• PaaS
• ServiceNow

More

We are Centrica, a family of brands and an energy company with a mission to energise a greener, fairer future. With 21,000 colleagues, we make, store, move, sell, and mend energy differently, using technology to transform our platforms, strengthen cyber and operational resilience, and embed a product-led approach. This Senior Enterprise Architect role offers the chance to shape enterprise architecture across Retail, Optimisation, Corporate Systems, and Infrastructure, with a hybrid working arrangement and occasional travel to site. We offer a competitive salary, strong growth opportunities, and a collaborative, forward-looking environment, along with a benefits package that includes pension, holiday allowance, flexible benefits, and support for health and wellbeing. We are proud to be a people-focused employer that values flexibility, continuous improvement, and meaningful impact.

last updated 24 week of 2026