Strategy and Architecture Manager

E.ON; Nottingham; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Company car / car allowance

Pension

Job summary

E.ON is seeking a Strategy and Architecture Manager for its Digital Technology team, on a 12-month secondment basis, based at Nottingham Trinity or Solihull with hybrid working. The role leads strategy and enterprise architecture, shaping technology roadmaps and governance across UK Digital Technology.

The role demands senior strategic thinking, architectural literacy (Cloud-native, Microservices, Data Mesh), and strong leadership.

Qualifications

• Experience shaping digital strategies for large organisations.
• Ability to translate objectives into actionable roadmaps.
• Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration.
• Proven ability to drive strategic reviews and align with business goals.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of UK Digital Technology strategy aligned with business objectives.
• Define and govern UK architecture, data, application, and technology landscapes.
• Translate strategic objectives into guardrails and roadmaps for delivery teams.
• Collaborate with Group Enterprise Architecture and Strategy colleagues.
• Provide governance and ensure alignment with FP11 requirements.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Architectural literacy

Strategic thinking

Communication

Team leadership

Job description

We are looking for a Strategy and Architecture Manager to join our Digital Technology team on a 12 month secondment basis based at Trinity or Solihull with hybrid working.

Strategy and Architecture Manager

Here’s what you’ll be doing

Salary - £80,000- £95,000 plus company car/car allowance excellent employee benefits

Location- Nottingham Trinity House (Hybrid working)

12 month secondment

To lead and develop a high-performing team responsible for defining and delivering E.ON UK Digital Technology strategy and enterprise architecture, ensuring alignment with business objectives and evolving market trends. The role is accountable for translating strategic objectives into clear guardrails and standards, which are used by delivery teams to develop actionable technology roadmaps that yield measurable business value and support long-term organisational success.Working as a senior strategic partner across Digital Technology and Group functions, you will drive cross-functional collaboration, shape the technology strategy for senior leadership, and ensure the consistent application of architecture governance, standards, and frameworks. You will also work closely with the Digital Technology Portfolio Management function to ensure strategic alignment and effective delivery across the technology landscape.

Strategy

• Lead the development of the E.ON UK Digital Technology strategy, ensuring it is aligned with wider business objectives and evolving market trends.
• Translate complex or ambiguous business objectives into clear, long-term technology roadmaps that deliver measurable business value.
• Partner across Digital Technology functions to support in-depth strategic reviews and drive alignment across the organisation.
• Analyse external insights and market trends, turning them into actionable recommendations with measurable impact.
• Develop the Digital Technology strategy narrative and lead regular strategy reviews with the DT UK senior leadership team.

Enterprise Architecture

• Define the IT blueprint required to deliver the Digital Technology strategy by mapping data, application, and technology landscapes, ensuring solutions are scalable, efficient, and minimise technical debt.
• Provide enterprise architecture oversight by partnering with architecture teams across the organisation to guide decision-making, simplify the technology landscape, proactively manage technical debt, and ensure alignment with the long-term technology strategy.
• Own and manage the end-to-end UK architecture governance process, including the approval of UK Target Architectures.
• Collaborate with Group Enterprise Architecture colleagues to secure approval for significant architectural changes in line with FP11.
• Maintain UK data within the central EAMP repository in accordance with FP11 requirements.
• Support additional enterprise architecture services, including organisational mapping, capability modelling, business strategy development, technology roadmap planning, and technology strategy creation in partnership with strategy colleagues.

Scope of the role

• Lead and support the UK-wide Digital Technology strategy.
• Ensure alignment with EDT architecture governance processes.
• Provide UK-wide architecture governance, oversight, and strategic alignment.
• Support Digital Technology teams with technology strategy, capability modelling, technical roadmap development, and related strategic initiatives.

What we need from you

• Strategic Leadership: Experience in senior leadership roles with a proven track record of shaping digital strategies.
• Architectural Literacy: Deep understanding of modern architecture patterns (Cloud-native, Microservices, Data Mesh) and their impact on business agility.
• The Pragmatic Visionary: Remain future focused while ensuring today's delivery remains on track.
• Ruthlessly Value-Focused: Unafraid to recommend stopping projects that no longer align with strategy
• Strategic & Visionary Thinking: The ability to see the big picture, anticipate market trends, and translate high-level company goals into actionable team objectives.
• Emotional Intelligence (EQ): High self-awareness and empathy. This builds trust, fosters team cohesion, and helps mediate conflicts. Narrative Storytelling: Translating complex technical information and data into compelling strategic visions that inspire emotional buy-in.
• Resilience & Composure: The capacity to remain calm under pressure, make tough decisions, and lead the team through organisational changes or setbacks.
• Integrity & Accountability: Being reliable, taking ownership of the team's successes and failures, and fostering a culture of honesty.
• Clear Communication: The ability to articulate expectations, provide constructive feedback, and inspire confidence across all levels of the organisation.

Here’s what you need to know

Award-Winning Workplace - We're proud to be named a Sunday Times Best Place to Work 2026 and the Best Place to Work for 16-34-year-olds.

Outstanding Benefits - Enjoy 26 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, a generous pension, life cover, bonus opportunities, and access to 20 flexible benefits with tax/NI savings.

Flexible & Family-Friendly - Our industry-leading hybrid and family-friendly policies earned us double recognition at the Personnel Today Awards 2024. We're open to discussing how flexibility can work for you.

Inclusive & Diverse - We're the only energy company in the Inclusive Top 50 UK Employers. We're also proud winners of Best Employer for Women and Human Company of the Year-recognising our inclusive, people-first culture.

Support at Every Stage of Life - We're Fertility Friendly and Menopause Friendly accredited, with inclusive support for everyone.

Accessible & Supportive - Do you consider yourself as having a disability? As a Disability Confident Employer, we ensure that disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria move forward to the next stage of our recruitment process, and will make any adjustments needed during the process.

Invested in Your Growth - From inclusive talent networks to top-tier development programmes, we'll support your growth every step of the way.

At a glance

Reference no.: 245672 Closing date: 06/11/2026 Salary: £80,000 - £95,000

Get in touch

For more information about the role please contact the hiring manager- [e-mail]

About us

E.ON is a privately owned international energy company. Our 75,000 colleagues in 15 countries work daily towards the improvement of technical innovations and user-friendly customer solutions for the new energy world. We are the first large energy company to focus more heavily upon the energy of the future through our three business areas of energy networks, renewable energies and customer solutions.

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