We're looking for a Principal Digital Solution Engineer to join our Digital Technology team.
E.ON's Industrial & Commercial (I&C) business combines npower Business Solutions and E.ON B2B, creating a £5bn revenue business serving around 60,000 customers and 300,000 meter points across the UK. As part of the Digital Technology & Change (DT&C) function, you'll play a key role in shaping the future of our digital landscape.
We're looking for a Principal Digital Solution Engineer to act as a senior technical authority within our Engineering team. This role will drive how enterprise platforms, cloud services, data, and applications are assembled into scalable, secure, and reusable digital solutions. Working closely with Architects, Product teams, Platform teams, and Engineering leaders, you'll define solution patterns, integration strategies, and cloud engineering standards that support the delivery of modern digital products.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as the technical authority for solution engineering, defining how enterprise platforms, data, and applications are combined into scalable, cohesive business solutions.
- Establish and govern solution design patterns, integration frameworks, and reusable solution components aligned to enterprise architecture and engineering standards.
- Lead the design and delivery of complex, multi-platform solutions, ensuring consistency across products, domains, and business capabilities.
- Define and drive integration strategies, including API‑led, event‑driven, and data integration approaches, ensuring solutions are secure, resilient, scalable, and cost‑effective.
- Champion cloud‑native solution design and cloud engineering best practices, driving optimisation, automation, and alignment with enterprise governance.
- Collaborate with Group Platform teams to embed reusable, well‑governed platform capabilities and maximise the value of enterprise services.
- Drive standardisation and reuse across platforms, applications, and data services, influencing product architectures and reducing technical complexity to support long‑term sustainability.
- Lead the adoption of emerging technologies, including AI‑enabled solutions, while acting as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders on engineering strategy, investment decisions, and digital innovation.
Essential Qualifications
- Extensive experience designing and delivering complex enterprise‑scale digital solutions.
- Strong expertise in solution architecture, integration patterns, distributed systems, and cloud platforms.
- Deep understanding of enterprise integration, data ecosystems, and cloud‑native technologies.
- Proven ability to influence across multiple teams, products, and senior stakeholders.
- Experience defining solution standards, reusable frameworks, and engineering best practices.
- Strong knowledge of DevOps, SRE, and modern product engineering approaches.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Desirable Qualifications
- Experience with AI‑driven solutions, orchestration, and automation technologies.
- Knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks and governance models.
- Experience working within global delivery environments and supplier ecosystems.
- Commercial awareness with the ability to support investment and business case decisions.
Benefits and Inclusion
- Enjoy 26 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, a generous pension, life cover, bonus opportunities, and access to 20 flexible benefits with tax/NI savings.
- Our industry‑leading hybrid and family‑friendly policies earned us double recognition. We’re open to discussing how flexibility can work for you.
- We’re Fertility Friendly and Menopause Friendly accredited, with inclusive support for everyone.
- Do you consider yourself as having a disability? As a Disability Confident Employer, we guarantee interviews for disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role and will make any adjustments needed during the process.
- From inclusive talent networks to top‑tier development programmes, we’ll support your growth every step of the way.
- E.ON is committed to equal opportunities and actively promotes diversity, equality and flexibility.
Location: Solihull, GB
