Waste Enterprise Architect: Digital Strategy & Roadmaps

Southern Water group; Durrington; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Pension

Life cover

Health benefit

Volunteer days

28 days holiday

Occupational health

Retail discount

Maternity leave

Job summary

Southern Water group is seeking an Enterprise Architect - Waste to lead the formulation and execution of digital and business strategy across the waste domain. The role ensures architectural integrity, roadmaps, standards, and governance to deliver measurable business value.

You will collaborate with Product, Platform, Digital, Data, Security and Delivery teams, shaping future-state models and guiding cross-functional teams through architecture governance and investment decisions.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in enterprise architecture across business and IT domains.
• Ability to translate strategy into actionable architectural roadmaps and governance.
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders and leading cross-functional discussions.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise architecture development aligning business strategy with technology execution.
• Develop future-state models and roadmaps for the organisation.
• Provide governance, guardrails and architectural direction to support digital transformation.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Strategic planning

Stakeholder engagement

Roadmapping

Leadership

Communication/storytelling

Cloud & SaaS

APIs & microservices

Education

TOGAF

BCS or equivalent architecture qualifications

Tools

EA tooling

Application catalogues

Cloud platforms

Job description

Southern Water group is seeking an Enterprise Architect - Waste to lead the formulation and execution of digital and business strategy across the waste domain. The role ensures architectural integrity, roadmaps, standards, and governance to deliver measurable business value.

You will collaborate with Product, Platform, Digital, Data, Security and Delivery teams, shaping future-state models and guiding cross-functional teams through architecture governance and investment decisions.