Enterprise Architect - Energy & Utilities

Account CTO / Enterprise Architect – Energy & Utilities - NTT DATA, Inc.

Industry Focus: Energy, Utilities, Renewables, Oil & Gas, Power Generation, Transmission & Distribution

Location: Flexible / Hybrid Glasgow around 2 days a week sometimes 3

Experience Level: Senior Executive / Principal Architect

NTT DATA is seeking a strategic, business-oriented, and technology-driven Account CTO / Enterprise Architect to lead digital transformation engagements for clients across the Energy & Utilities sector. This role acts as the senior technology advisor and trusted partner to client executives, business leaders, and IT organizations, helping shape enterprise-wide transformation strategies that align technology investments with business outcomes.

The ideal candidate combines deep industry expertise with broad technical leadership across Enterprise Applications, Cloud Native modernization, Cybersecurity & Zero Trust architectures, Data & AI transformation, and emerging digital platforms.

The Account CTO / Enterprise Architect will collaborate with account teams, delivery organizations, alliance partners, and client stakeholders to define and execute transformational technology roadmaps. This role requires executive presence, strong consultative capabilities, enterprise architecture expertise, and the ability to translate complex technology strategies into measurable business value.

• Serve as the primary technology strategist and trusted advisor for Energy & Utilities clients.
• Develop multi-year enterprise transformation roadmaps aligned to business priorities, regulatory requirements, and operational modernization goals.
• Provide executive-level thought leadership across digital transformation initiatives including modernization, automation, resiliency, sustainability, and operational efficiency.
• Engage with CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, Chief Digital Officers, and business executives to shape strategic technology investments.
• Lead enterprise architecture governance and technology decision frameworks. Identify innovation opportunities leveraging cloud, AI, IoT, advanced analytics, automation, and digital platforms.

• Define target-state enterprise architectures spanning applications, infrastructure, security, integration, data, and operations.
• Lead architecture assessments, capability maturity evaluations, and transformation planning. Develop reference architectures, modernization blueprints, and technology standards.
• Ensure alignment between business capabilities, operating models, and technology platforms. Guide large-scale modernization initiatives including ERP, CRM, asset management, and operational platforms.
• Drive interoperability between IT and OT environments.

• SAP (S/4
  
  HANA, SAP IS-U)
• Microsoft Dynamics
• Service Now Work & Asset Management platforms
• Customer Information Systems (CIS)
• Drive application rationalization and modernization initiatives.
• Establish API-first and event-driven integration strategies.
• Promote composable architecture and platform engineering practices.
• Define cloud transformation strategies leveraging AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and hybrid cloud environments.
• Lead cloud-native modernization initiatives using microservices, containers, Kubernetes, serverless, and Dev Sec Ops .
• Design resilient, scalable, and secure enterprise platforms. Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, SRE practices, and platform automation.
• Guide multi-cloud governance, Fin Ops, observability, and cloud operating models.

• Lead Zero Trust transformation strategies across enterprise and operational technology environments.
• Develop security architectures aligned to NIST, IEC 62443, CIS, and industry compliance requirements.
• Collaborate with security teams to implement:
• Identity & Access Management (IAM)
• Privileged Access Management (PAM)
• Secure Access Service Edge (SASE)
• Security Operations modernization OT security segmentation
• Threat detection and response
• Ensure cybersecurity is embedded throughout transformation programs.