Graduate Technology Architect Programme

Graduate Technology Architecture Programme

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At Severn Trent, we believe everyone deserves more. More care for the environment, more sustainable initiatives, and more support for the communities we serve. That's why we're on a mission to deliver bigger and better things, and we need passionate graduates like you to help us achieve our goals.

Our people and culture are the heart of our success. We're proud to be in the top 5% of utility companies worldwide for employee engagement and ranked as a Top 50 UK Employer on Glassdoor. With nearly 10,000 dedicated colleagues, we're looking for more brilliant people who are eager to turn challenges into opportunities for a better future.

If you're excited to learn, and ready to make a real impact, we want you on our team.

Severn Trent is a FTSE 100 company and one of the only ones outside London to have an all-encompassing Technology department. Our Technology Architecture Graduate Programme enables you to fast track technology skills in support of a longer‑term career in Solution Architecture, Cloud Architecting or Technical Engineering.

Through working in Technology, you will gain a great oversight of what it takes to design, deliver and run solutions that are key to the organisation’s operation. The programme will enable you to develop your skills. The aim of the programme is to enable you to do the following:

• Understand and make design decisions in support of business operations and in alignment with the groups technology strategy
• Strengthen stakeholder management and communication
• Understand the role of business analysis and how this works alongside solution definition
• Build a strong solution mindset to define well‑architected approaches
• Understand technological landscapes and capabilities
• Understand cyber security challenges, landscape and approaches
• Support the build of technology solutions through enabling emergent and innovative technology as well as the practical thinking of application to business solution

We welcome all graduates from diverse backgrounds, as we know diverse minds bring new ideas and a different way of thinking. We are looking for someone who wants to build their career with us and grasp new opportunities, and in return we will support you with varied experiences, training and development to provide a grounding for your future career.

You will be based at Severn Trent Headquarters in Coventry, the heart of our patch. The programme requires you to complete placements with three areas throughout your time in the role, gaining exposure in different areas of the department so that you are equipped with the right skills to build your career here at Severn Trent.

Teams that your placements may be in are:

• Technical Architecture team
• IT Operations
• Cyber

In this exciting programme, you will have the chance to discuss your development and career ambitions in your 1‑1 meetings with business leads, mentors, a study buddy, the cohort leader, and the New Talent Team.

You will develop expertise across a broad range of technical solutions that support both critical services and drive innovation. This includes areas such as identity and security, compute and storage, networking, monitoring, governance, and cost management.

The programme also provides a wider perspective on the technology landscape, offering opportunities to collaborate with multiple teams—including operational and cyber specialists. Through this exposure, you’ll strengthen technical capabilities and build essential skills in critical decision‑making, consensus building, and stakeholder communication.

We want our employees to care and to have a genuine passion for what we do as a business. We need people who want to make a difference in providing a vital service to our customers, now and for the long‑term.

If you have the passion to succeed that we see in our graduates every day, you’ll be a great match for our programme. We’d love you to be someone with:

• Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals including algorithms, data structures and software design
• Knowledge of cloud…