Domain Architect - SMART

Salary: £60,000 - 100,000 per year

Requirements

• Experience delivering solution and domain architectures across multiple projects or platforms
• Strong understanding of business processes and their alignment with technology solutions
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage technical and non-technical audiences
• Strategic thinking with the ability to plan and implement mid- to long-term technology roadmaps
• Experience with architectural governance and compliance in a large organisation
• Demonstrated safe and responsible use of AI tools, with clear knowledge of when AI use is appropriate and strong awareness of accuracy, bias, and compliance
• Ability to design and reuse prompt templates to support consistent, high-quality workflow outputs
• Skilled in using AI to triage, classify, and analyse information within policy guardrails
• Strong ability to recognise higher-risk scenarios and escalate to governance or security as needed
• Proficiency in enterprise AI copilots, knowledge assistants, and AI-enhanced productivity tools

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the target architecture for our Smart Metering domain across metering services, financial metering, and meter asset management
• Align architecture with enterprise guardrails and strategic platform roadmaps
• Promote adoption of shared metering platforms and services, and distinguish where the domain should standardise versus differentiate
• Shape decisions around metering-related customer, regulatory, operational, and financial outcomes
• Align architecture to product OKRs and value levers such as settlement accuracy, installation efficiency, field force effectiveness, cost to serve, and reliability of meter-to-cash flows
• Challenge unnecessary complexity and ensure designs are proportionate to the value delivered
• Champion platform reuse across our metering ecosystem and guide teams on whether to use, extend, or build services
• Identify duplication across field operations tooling, asset repositories, and data flows, and drive convergence onto strategic platforms
• Contribute to reference architectures for the end-to-end metering lifecycle
• Ensure solutions comply with enterprise guardrails and industry and regulatory requirements
• Operate within agreed decision rights and escalate when choices impact cross-domain flows such as billing, customer operations, or regulatory reporting
• Consider integration, data quality, security, resilience, settlement impacts, commissioning flows, asset events, and downstream consumption by Billing, Market Operations, and Customer Service
• Ensure architectures are buildable, supportable, and scalable under real-world field operations conditions
• Work closely with delivery squads, field operations technology teams, and industry programme teams
• Validate designs against operational realities and adapt architecture based on delivery feedback and evolving regulatory constraints
• Incorporate lifetime cost, vendor economics, cloud utilisation, licensing, data retrieval costs, and operational efficiencies into design decisions
• Provide clear analysis for build-versus-buy decisions in areas such as commissioning, testing, remote operations, and financial metering reconciliation
• Help product teams understand the cost impacts of architectural choices on meter operations and settlement accuracy
• Act as a trusted advisor across Smart Metering Operations, Billing, Market Operations, Engineering Leads, and Technology Leaders
• Influence without authority and constructively challenge where needed to ensure robust, value-driven architecture
• Coach solution architects and engineers working in Smart Metering
• Promote standards, platform reuse, quality, and continuous improvement
• Embed architectural clarity and consistency across delivery teams
• Provide ongoing mentoring and guidance to architects and engineers in the metering domain
• Support capability uplift through design reviews, knowledge sharing, and continuous refinement of metering patterns, principles, and architectural guardrails

Technologies

• AI
• Cloud
• Support
• Security
• Architect
• Network
• SAP

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We are Centrica, a family of brands and a team of 21,000 colleagues working to create a greener, fairer future by transforming how we power the planet. We do energy differently across the full value chain, including making, storing, moving, selling, and maintaining energy solutions. This is a UK-based hybrid role with occasional travel to site. We offer a generous market salary, a 15% Employee Energy Allowance, a comprehensive pension plan, fully funded company healthcare, 25 days of holiday plus public holidays, the option to buy up to 5 extra days, and a wide range of flexible benefits including tech, eco-friendly car leases, and travel insurance. We support career growth, internal mobility, learning and development, and a people-first culture where your voice matters and your ambitions are a priority.

last updated 25 week of 2026