Domain Architect (Energy Supply)

Centrica plc; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car allowance

Employee Energy Allowance 15%

Company pension

Healthcare plan

25 days holiday + buy 5

Job summary

Centrica is seeking a Domain Architect for Energy Supply in a UK-based hybrid role, driving end-to-end architectural direction for residential and business energy journeys. You will align customer, commercial, regulatory, and operational needs with platform decisions, ensuring scalable, compliant solutions that reduce cost to serve.

You will influence investments, lead cross-functional workstreams, and craft pragmatic roadmaps while maintaining strong governance and security across the

Qualifications

• Defining solution and domain architectures across complex, business-critical platforms.
• Experience in energy retail, utilities or a regulated, high-volume environment is a real advantage.
• Understanding end-to-end Energy Supply capabilities and their connections across journeys and processes.
• Translate business needs into clear capability models, target architectures and roadmaps.
• Strong communication and collaboration with product, engineering, operations and senior leadership.
• Experience in platform strategy, architectural governance, investment trade-offs and total cost of ownership.
• Knowledge of safe AI usage with governance within Centrica policy guardrails.

Responsibilities

• Shape and maintain the target architecture and integrated roadmap for Energy Supply.
• Act as architectural steward guiding platform choices and investment priorities.
• Develop reference architectures, capability boundaries and integration patterns.
• Balance standards with flexibility for different customer journeys and regulatory needs.
• Simplify the technology estate by reducing duplication and promoting reusable solutions.
• Partner with product, engineering, finance, data and operations to translate strategy into roadmaps and delivery guidance.
• Provide governance and decision-making for complex architecture choices with focus on compliance, security and resilience.

Skills

Domain architecture

Solution architecture

Stakeholder communication

Platform strategy

Architectural governance

Cost of ownership

AI governance

Job description

Join us, be part of more.

We’re so much more than an energy company. We’re a family of brands revolutionising how we power the planet. We're energisers. One team of 21,000 colleagues that's energising a greener, fairer future by creating an energy system that doesn’t rely on fossil fuels, whilst living our powerful commitment to igniting positive change in our communities. Here, you can find more purpose, more passion, and more potential. That’s why working here is #MoreThanACareer. We do energy differently - we do it all. We make it, store it, move it, sell it, and mend it.

An opportunity to play your part

As our Domain Architect for Energy Supply, you’ll play a key role in shaping the technology direction for one of the most important areas of Retail Technology, supporting both residential and business customers across the full energy supply journey. From customer acquisition, propositions and pricing through to contract lifecycle management, meter reads, rating, billing, payments, collections, debt, settlements, forecasting, regulatory reporting and customer service, you’ll connect the moving parts and help make the complex feel simple. Working within our enterprise guardrails, you’ll balance standardisation and platform reuse with the flexibility needed to meet different customer, commercial, operational and regulatory needs. As the architectural steward for Energy Supply, you’ll influence investment and platform decisions, simplify the technology estate, reduce duplication and evolve sustainable reference architectures that improve customer outcomes, strengthen revenue assurance, drive operational efficiency, support compliance and reduce cost to serve.

Location

UK-based hybrid role, Occasional travel to site.

Day to day –

• Shape and maintain the target architecture and integrated roadmap for the end-to-end Energy Supply capability, making sure acquisition, pricing, contract lifecycle, meter reads, billing, payments, debt, settlements, forecasting, regulatory reporting and customer service all work together smoothly.
• Act as the architectural steward for Energy Supply, guiding platform choices, reuse decisions and investment priorities so technology supports customer outcomes, commercial value and long-term simplicity.
• Develop clear reference architectures, capability boundaries and integration patterns across customer, channel, metering, market operations, finance, data and core supply platforms.
• Balance enterprise standards with the flexibility needed for different residential and business customer journeys, propositions, operational processes and regulatory requirements.
• Simplify the technology estate by reducing duplication, challenging local optimisation where it creates risk or cost, and promoting scalable, secure and reusable solutions.
• Partner closely with product, engineering, commercial, finance, operations, data and industry programme teams to turn strategy into practical roadmaps, design decisions and delivery guidance.
• Bring strong governance and decision-making to complex architecture choices, keeping compliance, resilience, security, cost to serve, revenue assurance and long-term supportability front and centre.

What are the must haves –

• You’ll bring strong experience defining solution and domain architectures across complex, business-critical platforms, with the confidence to guide multiple delivery initiatives without losing sight of the bigger picture.
• Experience in energy retail, utilities or another regulated, high-volume environment would be a real advantage, especially where customer, operational, financial and market processes need to work together seamlessly.
• You’ll understand end-to-end Energy Supply capabilities and how they connect across customer journeys, commercial propositions, operations, finance, data, industry interactions and market obligations.
• You’ll be skilled at turning different customer segment and business needs into clear capability models, target architectures, transition roadmaps and pragmatic technology decisions that teams can actually deliver.
• You’ll be a confident communicator and natural collaborator, able to influence technical and non-technical audiences across product, engineering, operations, commercial teams and senior leadership.
• You’ll combine strategic and commercial thinking, bringing experience of platform strategy, architectural governance, investment trade-offs, technology rationalisation and total cost of ownership in a large organisation.
• You’ll use AI tools safely and responsibly, knowing when they add value and when they need human judgement, with strong awareness of accuracy, bias, security, compliance, prompt reuse and governance escalation within Centrica policy guardrails.

What's in it for you?

• Enjoy a generous market salary, along with fantastic growth opportunities and a vibrant work environment!
• Added Car Allowance program to make your commute and adventures even better.
• Power up your pay with a 15% Employee Energy Allowance, surpassing the government's price cap!
• Secure your future with our comprehensive pension plan, designed for peace of mind.
• Elevate your health with our fully-funded company healthcare plan, prioritizing your well-being.
• Recharge with a generous 25-day holiday allowance, plus public holidays, and even purchase up to 5 extra days for extended relaxation!
• Experience unparalleled work-life balance with an exceptional selection of flexible benefits, from tech treats and eco-friendly car leases to travel insurance for your adventures!

Why should you apply?

We’re not a perfect place – but we’re a people place. Our priority is supporting all of the different realities our people face. Life is about so much more than work. We get it. That’s why we’ve designed our total rewards to give you the flexibility to choose what you need, when you need it, making sure that you and your family are supported not only financially, but physically and emotionally too.

Visit the link below to discover why we’re a great place to work and what being part of more means for you.

https://www.morethanacareer.energy/centrica

If you're full of energy, fired up about sustainability, and ready to craft not only a better tomorrow, but a better you, then come and find your purpose in a team where your voice matters, your growth is non-negotiable, and your ambitions are our priority.

Help us, help you. We would love for you to share any information about yourself throughout our recruitment process so that we can better understand you and help shape your journey.