Are you interested in how complex organisations design, model, and improve the systems that keep our business running? At Thames Water, our one year Architecture Modelling Industrial Placement offers you the opportunity to work at the heart of our technology and business architecture function, helping to shape and evolve our enterprise architecture modelling environment.
What you’ll be doing across your placement year
1. Supporting the development and enhancement of our architecture modelling environment, including tool configuration and customisation
2. Programming and scripting within architecture tools to enable automation, dashboards, and reporting
3. Creating and maintaining architecture models using ArchiMate
4. Developing dashboards and visualisations to communicate architecture insights to technical and non-technical stakeholders
5. Contributing to live delivery projects, applying architecture models to real-world business and technology opportunities
6. Collaborating with enterprise architects, solution architects, and delivery teams to ensure models remain accurate, relevant, and valuable
What you should bring to the role
To thrive in this role, the essential criteria you’ll need is
7. Working towards a computer science degree or related discipline
8. We’re looking for enthusiastic and curious individuals who enjoy working with others and learning new skills. You’ll be someone who likes sharing ideas, asking questions, and contributing as part of a supportive and diverse team.
What’s in it for you?
9. Salary: £23,000
10. Location: Reading, Clearwater Court - Hybrid
11. Duration: 1 year placement, starting September 2026 until August 2027
12. 24 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
13. Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance