Salary: £60,000 - 100,000 per year Requirements: Experience delivering solution and domain architectures across multiple projects or platforms Strong understanding of business processes and their alignment with technology solutions Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage technical and non-technical audiences Strategic thinking with the ability to plan and implement mid- to long-term technology roadmaps Experience with architectural governance and compliance in a large organisation Demonstrated safe and responsible use of AI tools, with clear knowledge of when AI use is appropriate and strong awareness of accuracy, bias, and compliance Ability to design and reuse prompt templates to support consistent, high-quality workflow outputs Skilled in using AI to triage, classify, and analyse information within policy guardrails Strong ability to recognise higher-risk scenarios and escalate to governance or security as needed Proficiency in enterprise AI copilots, knowledge assistants, and AI-enhanced productivity tools Responsibilities: Define and maintain the target architecture for our Smart Metering domain across metering services, financial metering, and meter asset management Align architecture with enterprise guardrails and strategic platform roadmaps Promote adoption of shared metering platforms and services, and distinguish where the domain should standardise versus differentiate Shape decisions around metering-related customer, regulatory, operational, and financial outcomes Align architecture to product OKRs and value levers such as settlement accuracy, installation efficiency, field force effectiveness, cost to serve, and reliability of meter-to-cash flows Challenge unnecessary complexity and ensure designs are proportionate to the value delivered Champion platform reuse across our metering ecosystem and guide teams on whether to use, extend, or build services Identify duplication across field operations tooling, asset repositories, and data flows, and drive convergence onto strategic platforms Contribute to reference architectures for the end-to-end metering lifecycle Ensure solutions comply with enterprise guardrails and industry and regulatory requirements Operate within agreed decision rights and escalate when choices impact cross-domain flows such as billing, customer operations, or regulatory reporting Consider integration, data quality, security, resilience, settlement impacts, commissioning flows, asset events, and downstream consumption by Billing, Market Operations, and Customer Service Ensure architectures are buildable, supportable, and scalable under real-world field operations conditions Work closely with delivery squads, field operations technology teams, and industry programme teams Validate designs against operational realities and adapt architecture based on delivery feedback and evolving regulatory constraints Incorporate lifetime cost, vendor economics, cloud utilisation, licensing, data retrieval costs, and operational efficiencies into design decisions Provide clear analysis for build-versus-buy decisions in areas such as commissioning, testing, remote operations, and financial metering reconciliation Help product teams understand the cost impacts of architectural choices on meter operations and settlement accuracy Act as a trusted advisor across Smart Metering Operations, Billing, Market Operations, Engineering Leads, and Technology Leaders Influence without authority and constructively challenge where needed to ensure robust, value-driven architecture Coach solution architects and engineers working in Smart Metering Promote standards, platform reuse, quality, and continuous improvement Embed architectural clarity and consistency across delivery teams Provide ongoing mentoring and guidance to architects and engineers in the metering domain Support capability uplift through design reviews, knowledge sharing, and continuous refinement of metering patterns, principles, and architectural guardrails Technologies: AI Cloud Support Security Architect Network SAP More: We are Centrica, a family of brands and a team of 21,000 colleagues working to create a greener, fairer future by transforming how we power the planet. We do energy differently across the full value chain, including making, storing, moving, selling, and maintaining energy solutions. This is a UK-based hybrid role with occasional travel to site. We offer a generous market salary, a 15% Employee Energy Allowance, a comprehensive pension plan, fully funded company healthcare, 25 days of holiday plus public holidays, the option to buy up to 5 extra days, and a wide range of flexible benefits including tech, eco-friendly car leases, and travel insurance. We support career growth, internal mobility, learning and development, and a people-first culture where your voice matters and your ambitions are a priority. last updated 24 week of 2026