Strategy and Architecture Manager

To lead and develop a high-performing team responsible for defining and delivering the

E.ON UK Digital Technology strategy and enterprise architecture, ensuring alignment with business objectives and external market trends. Accountable for translating strategic intent into clear, actionable technology roadmaps that deliver measurable business value. Acting as a senior strategic partner across Digital Technology and Group functions, the role leads cross-functional collaboration, shapes the strategy narrative for senior leadership, and ensures consistent application of architecture governance, standards, and frameworks in close alignment with the DT portfolio management function.

• Accountable for the development of the
  
  E.ON UK Digital Technology
  strategy, ensuring it is seamlessly integrated with the broader business
  objectives and market trends.
• Translating ambiguous objectives into concrete, actionable, long-term
  technology roadmaps with clear measurable business value
• Partnering across Digital Technology functions to support in depth strategy
  reviews
• Synthesising external insight and market trends into actionable
  recommendations with measurable impact
• Crafting the strategy narrative and leading regular strategy reviews for DT
  UK senior leadership

• Define the IT blueprint to deliver the strategy. This involves mapping out
  data, application, and technology landscapes to ensure systems are
  scalable, efficient, and avoid technical debt.
• Enterprise Architecture Oversight:
  Partner with architecture teams across
  the organisation to steer decision-making, ensuring scalable platforms,
  proactive technical debt management, and ensuring the architecture
  landscape is simplified and aligned to the long-term technology strategy.
• Own and manage the end-to-end UK architecture governance process
  including approval of UK Target Architectures
• Collaboration with Group Enterprise Architecture colleagues to align on
  sign off for significant architectural change in line with FP11
• Maintenance of UK data in central EAMP repository in line with FP11
• Provide support for additional services including organisation mapping,
  capability modelling, business strategy expression, technology roadmap
  and technology strategy creation in alignment with strategy colleagues

• UK wide DT Strategy
• Alignment with EDT architecture governance processes
• Providing UK wide architecture governance and alignment
• Supporting DT teams with technology strategy, capability modelling and
  technical roadmap development etc

To lead and develop a high-performing team responsible for defining and delivering

E.ON UK’s Digital Technology strategy and enterprise architecture, ensuring alignment with business objectives and evolving market trends. The role is accountable for translating strategic objectives into clear guardrails and standards, which are used by delivery teams to develop actionable technology roadmaps that yield measurable business value and support long-term organisational success.

Working as a senior strategic partner across Digital Technology and Group functions, you will drive cross-functional collaboration, shape the technology strategy for senior leadership, and ensure the consistent application of architecture governance, standards, and frameworks. You will also work closely with the Digital Technology Portfolio Management function to ensure strategic alignment and effective delivery across the technology landscape.

• Lead the development of the
  
  E.ON UK Digital Technology strategy, ensuring it is aligned with wider business objectives and evolving market trends.
• Translate complex or ambiguous business objectives into clear, long-term technology roadmaps that deliver measurable business value.
• Partner across Digital Technology functions to support in-depth strategic reviews and drive alignment across the organisation.
• Analyse external insights and market trends, turning them into actionable recommendations with measurable impact.
• Develop the Digital Technology strategy narrative and lead regular strategy reviews with the DT UK senior leadership team.

• Define the IT blueprint required to deliver the Digital Tec