What you’ll be doing
as an Enterprise Architect
1. Develop and maintain the Enterprise Architecture Vision and Roadmap for the OT domain, ensuring alignment with Thames Water's strategy, regulatory drivers, and digital transformation initiatives.
2. Translate strategic business objectives into enterprise-wide architectural principles, standards, and blueprints.
3. Partner with business leadership, Product Directors, and Digital teams to shape investment priorities and ensure cohesive architectural outcomes across domains.
4. Lead and contribute to architecture governance, including architecture review boards, ensuring consistency, quality, and alignment to enterprise standards.
5. Work collaboratively with Domain Architects to manage cross-domain dependencies, integration, and shared capabilities such as data, platforms, cyber security, and infrastructure.
6. Define, maintain, and govern the enterprise architecture repository and models.
7. Provide thought leadership on emerging technologies, including IoT, digital twins, AI, and cloud platforms, and their application to water utility operations and asset management.
8. Support innovation initiatives by assessing enterprise-wide impact, scalability, and long-term value.
9. Ensure architectural alignment with sustainability, resilience, and decarbonisation goals.
10. Engage with senior business stakeholders, Digital teams, and external partners to ensure a whole-enterprise perspective is reflected in architectural decisions.
11. Communicate complex architectural concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, acting as a trusted advisor to senior management.
12. Mentor and support Domain Architects and solution teams in the application of enterprise architecture principles and standards.
13. Drive the maturity of architecture practices, frameworks (e.g. TOGAF, SABSA), and tooling across the organisation.
14. Champion collaboration and shared ownership of architecture across business and Digital functions.
Base location – Hybrid – Clearwater Court, Reading.
Working pattern – 36 hours Monday to Friday.
What you should bring to the role
15. Proven experience in enterprise or domain architecture within asset-intensive industries such as utilities, energy, infrastructure, or transport.
16. Strong knowledge of water utility operations, including asset management, capital delivery processes, and operational resilience.
17. Experience working in complex, regulated environments with an understanding of regulatory drivers such as Ofwat and DWI.
18. Deep understanding of architecture domains — business, information, application, and technology — and how they integrate.
19. Experience coordinating or leading multi-domain architecture across large organisations.
20. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at senior levels.
21. Hands-on experience applying recognised architecture frameworks such as TOGAF and modelling approaches such as ArchiMate.
Technical experience and skills
22. Experience with SCADA environments and the integration of Operational Technology (OT) and IT estates.
23. Understanding of OT security, identity and access management, and compliance frameworks such as the NIS Directive and CAF.
24. Experience with asset management systems such as SAP ECC/PM, SAP SRP, Asset Investment Manager (AIM), or similar asset lifecycle platforms.
25. Familiarity with capital delivery and project controls platforms, including tools such as Primavera.
26. Experience with work management platforms used in water utilities, including SAP EAM and Salesforce, and their integration with asset systems.
27. Knowledge of asset lifecycle management for treatment works, pumping stations, reservoirs, dams, water mains, sewers, and pipelines.
28. Strong knowledge of data architecture, including governance, lineage, interoperability, and integration with BI platforms such as Power BI.
29. Experience designing or operating Common Data Environments (CDEs) to support collaboration and a single source of truth for asset and operational data.
30. Experience designing secure, resilient, and scalable cloud and hybrid architectures across platforms such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud, including associated security controls.
Desirable qualifications and experience
31. Experience supporting digital twin initiatives, data strategy development, or large-scale cloud transformation programmes.
32. Professional certifications such as TOGAF, ITIL, CEng, or equivalent.
33. ArchiMate 3 modelling experience.
34. Hands-on experience with architecture modelling tools such as BizzDesign or similar.
What’s in it for you?
35. Competitive salary up to £100,000 per annum depending on experience.
36. Car allowance - £5,800
37. Annual Leave - 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with the length of service. (plus bank holidays).
38. Performance-related pay plan directly linked to both company and individual performance measures and targets.
39. Generous Pension Scheme through AON.
40. Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of yourself 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.