Strategy and Architecture Manager

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

Benefits offered by this job

Award-winning workplace

26 days leave + holidays

Pension and life cover

Bonus opportunities

Job summary

E.ON is seeking a Strategy and Architecture Manager to lead the UK Digital Technology strategy and enterprise architecture. The role requires translating strategic objectives into practical roadmaps and governing architectural standards across the landscape.

You will work closely with senior leadership to drive collaboration and measurable business value. The position offers hybrid working from Nottingham, Trinity House, with a 12-month secondment and a salary of £80,000–£95,000 plus a company

Qualifications

• Strategic leadership experience in senior roles shaping digital strategies.
• Deep understanding of modern architecture patterns (Cloud-native, Microservices, Data Mesh).
• Ability to translate high-level goals into actionable objectives for teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the UK Digital Technology strategy and enterprise architecture across E.ON UK.
• Translate strategic objectives into clear guardrails and roadmaps for delivery teams.
• Partner with Digital Technology functions and Group Enterprise Architecture to align governance and standards.
• Analyse market trends and translate insights into actionable recommendations with measurable impact.

Skills

Strategic Leadership

Architectural Literacy

Pragmatic Visionary

Value-focused

Strategic & Visionary Thinking

Emotional Intelligence

Resilience & Composure

Integrity & Accountability

Clear Communication

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's 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.

• 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.
• 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 202 6 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

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.