Enterprise Solution Architect Field

Salary – Competitive
Work Type – Hybrid
Job Location – Lingley Mere (UU), Lingley Green Avenue, Great Sankey, Warrington, WA5 3LP
Role Type – Permanent
Employment Type – Full Time
Working Hours – 37.0 Hours per Week

United Utilities\’ (UU) purpose is to deliver great water for a stronger, greener and healthier North West of England. We are committed to providing our services in a way that respects the environment, supports the economy, and benefits society.

We value diversity, inclusion and innovation in our workplace, and we foster a culture where our people can grow, excel, and be themselves.

We uphold our ethics, values and business model to fulfil our mission and, by setting clear goals and objectives, we create sustainable long-term value for our colleagues, customers and communities. Whether you work with a team that shares your vision or join a network of peers with similar interests, you will find a welcoming and supportive organisation to be part of.

We\’ve got a lot to offer. You\’ll be part of a thriving FTSE 100 company and will enjoy a range of core benefits that reflect your value and value contribution.

Benefits

• A generous annual leave package of 26 days, which increases to 30 days after four years of service (increases one day per year), in addition to 8 bank holidays
• A competitive pension scheme with up to 14% employer contribution, 21% combined, and life cover
• Up to 20% performance-related bonus scheme, as well as recognition awards for outstanding achievements
• £5,000 Car Cash Allowance
• A comprehensive healthcare plan through our company-funded scheme
• MyGymDiscounts – gym and wellness benefit that offers up to 25% off on gym memberships and digital fitness subscriptions
• Best Doctors
• Salary Finance
• Wealth at Work courses
• Deals and discounts
• EVolve Car Scheme
• Employee Assistance Plan
• Mental health first aiders
• ShareBuy
• MORE Choices flexible benefits
• Enhanced parental leave schemes

Job Purpose

As an Enterprise Solution Architect (Field), you will focus on architecting the technical infrastructure and applications across the entire technology estate and dependent business areas, ensuring the domain architecture meets the needs of the business.

By engaging across technical areas to rapidly gain a deep understanding of the business\’ architecture requirements, you will use this insight to define an implementable architecture to meet the evolving needs of United Utilities as it becomes more dependent on the provision of resilient digital services to deliver a performant customer and employee experience.

You will also be the driving force for advancing the underlying technical infrastructure of the business and communicating architecture benefits and capabilities with both business and technical colleagues, effectively selling the recommended direction and enabling the business to provide robust and performant integrated business and technology services both internally and externally.

Accountabilities & Responsibilities

• Maintain a continual awareness of both deployment best-practice and technical requirements as an input to defining the technology components and guiding investment/spend as required to underpin business and technical services.
• Lead the definition of the architectural artefacts that describe current, future and transition states of the infrastructure, together with the corresponding plans and roadmaps – ensuring buy-in from key stakeholders.
• Lead appropriate governance activities that oversee the implementation of the architecture and make critical decisions promptly to ensure alignment with plans, or to manage deviations appropriately while documenting and tracking technical debt.
• Provide ongoing support to technical and business areas dependent on the solution capability, steering technology users to the most appropriate patterns and solutions.
• Lead the definition of the architectures aligned to a broader enterprise architecture and the corporate strategy and plans. Assess the financial and technical impact of change and agree on an architecture investment strategy to accelerate the journey from current to target architecture.
• Lead the definition of standards, patterns, and other architectural artefacts that guide the implementation of the domain architecture. Perform regular reviews of those artefacts, assessing and verifying efficacy and need.
• Participate in, and use, governance forums to ensure that architecture standards are adhered to, strategic plans and objectives are met, and roadmaps are realised effectively. Contribute to the development and ongoing maintenance of governance processes and forums.
• Manage exceptions and waivers to architecture standards and plans. Manage and track technical debt as a consequence of waivers and exceptions.
• Engage key business stakeholders to identify and recommend business and technology-enabled innovation opportunities that enable and drive business strategy. Focuses on growing revenue, improving agility, optimising costs, and mitigating risks.
• Drive innovation by leveraging new technologies and approaches to renovate, extend, and transform the existing architecture.
• Leverage practices such as continuous foresight, innovation and futurism to continuously test architecture strategies, roadmaps, and models, and determine how to adjust these to become resilient and future-fit.
• Within the relevant architecture domain, provide consultancy on strategic initiatives and other projects/programmes and act as the point of approval for impacting technology implementations and purchases, ensuring that they are aligned to the enterprise architecture strategy.
• Lead the design community contributing to the delivery of the target architecture, ensuring they understand the direction and are motivated to support the delivery of the vision.

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