Strategy and Architecture Manager

12 month secondment

To lead and develop a high-performing team responsible for defining and delivering E.ON UK’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.

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.

• 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.