Chief Architect, Enterprise Strategy & Transformation

National Grid plc; Warwick; Hybride; GBP 78 000 - 110 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Company car or cash alternative

Private medical insurance

28 days holiday + 8 bank holidays

Generous pension scheme

Life insurance

Flexible benefits

Digital GP service

Work + family support

Résumé du poste

National Grid Ventures seeks a Chief Architect to shape the technology strategy, target architecture and governance for a high‑impact portfolio. Based in Warwick with a hybrid pattern, you will connect business ambition with delivery, set standards and roadmaps, and lead design reviews to enable scalable, secure solutions.

You will collaborate with senior leaders across business, digital, technology and product, building NGV’s architecture capability and guiding investment decisions to create

Qualifications

• Significant architecture leadership experience across enterprise, solution, data or information architecture.
• Deep experience in senior technology and architecture roles across complex portfolios or transformations.
• Strong strategic technology perspective spanning infrastructure, applications, data and analytics.

Responsabilités

• Set architectural direction aligning strategy, investment and delivery across NGV.
• Own architectural quality and decision governance for key initiatives.
• Influence senior leaders to convert strategy into actionable technology direction.
• Guide investments and transformations ensuring scalable, secure and cost‑effective solutions.
• Establish and evolve architecture governance, principles and design patterns.

Connaissances

Architecture leadership

Senior tech leadership

Strategic technology perspective

Business-technology alignment

Commercial awareness

Communication & influencing

Influence through leadership

Inclusive leadership

Architecture capability

Degree or equivalent

Formation

Degree or equivalent

Description du poste

National Grid Ventures seeks a Chief Architect to shape the technology strategy, target architecture and governance for a high‑impact portfolio. Based in Warwick with a hybrid pattern, you will connect business ambition with delivery, set standards and roadmaps, and lead design reviews to enable scalable, secure solutions.

You will collaborate with senior leaders across business, digital, technology and product, building NGV’s architecture capability and guiding investment decisions to create