Lead Enterprise Architect

Circa £80k, salary dependant on skills and experience
Permanent
Full time with the flexibility for part-time
Hybrid role, working from Huntingdon or Lincoln

Anglian Water offers a flexible approach, this role provides you the flexibility to work from home and from either our Huntingdon or Lincoln office.

The Lead Enterprise Architect is a strategic partner to the business, aligning organisational goals and capabilities with technical architecture to drive digital transformation and innovation.

As a senior member of the Digital Architecture Practice, you will provide trusted Enterprise Architecture leadership across multiple business areas. You’ll support the development of digital strategy and guide both individual and cross-cutting architectural decisions, ensuring technology solutions are aligned with business priorities.

Using your deep expertise across architecture domains, you will shape and influence digital initiatives, providing strategic direction that enables scalable, secure, and future-ready solutions. You’ll promote adaptive and distributed decision‑making, working closely with business leaders, product owners, and technical teams to embed architectural thinking into product development and delivery.

You will take a cross‑organisational view of the architecture landscape, identifying synergies, reducing duplication, and managing shared risks. By maintaining a clear view of dependencies and road‑maps, you’ll help define strategies that maximise value and optimise outcomes across the enterprise.

In addition, this role includes people leadership responsibility for the Enterprise Architecture team. You’ll provide direction, coaching, and performance management, supporting the ongoing development of the team and ensuring it operates effectively in line with organisational and practice objectives.

As Lead Enterprise Architect, you will act as a strategic partner to the business, translating organisational goals into clear, actionable architectural direction. You will build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, guiding digital initiatives, fostering collaboration, and promoting innovation and continuous improvement across the organisation.

You will lead enterprise architecture activities, developing and maintaining reference architectures, defining principles and guardrails, and ensuring alignment between business strategy and technical delivery. You’ll provide guidance and mentorship to architects and teams, facilitating informed decision‑making, optimising road‑maps, and managing risks across the architecture landscape.

In addition, you will lead and develop the Enterprise Architecture team, championing a high‑performing, accountable, and collaborative culture. You will oversee governance processes, maintain EA tools and practices, and drive consistency and innovation across the Digital Architecture Practice, ensuring architecture delivers real value to the business.

• Full private healthcare with no excess
• 26 days leave, rising with service + Bank Holidays, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by your religion
• A flexible working culture
• Competitive pension scheme – we double‑match your contributions up to 6%
• Life Assurance at eight times your salary
• Personal Accident cover – up to 5x your salary
• Bonus Scheme

We’re looking for a detail‑centric, strategically focused leader who combines strong programme delivery and influencing skills with the credibility to translate complex technical concepts into clear business insight — someone who remains calm under pressure, communicates with confidence, and brings the self‑motivation and determination needed to drive meaningful progress.

• Being an EA enthusiast with a passion and knowledge of architecture best practices, patterns, standards, and frameworks.
• Significant experience in a customer‑facing architecture role responsible for development of technical capabilities and road‑maps aligned to customer…