12 month secondment

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.

Strategy

• 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.

Enterprise Architecture

• Define the IT blueprint required to deliver the Digital Tec

Key responsibilities include:
Strategy
• 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

Enterprise Architecture
• 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

Scope of activities
• 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

• Strategic Leadership: Experience in senior leadership roles with a proven track record of shaping digital strategies.
• Architectural Literacy: Deep understanding of modern architecture patterns (Cloud-native, Microservices, Data Mesh) and their impact on business agility.
• The Pragmatic Visionary: Remain future focused while ensuring today's delivery remains on track.
• Ruthlessly Value-Focused: Unafraid to recommend stopping projects that no longer align with strategy
• Strategic & Visionary Thinking: The ability to see the big picture, anticipate market trends, and translate high-level company goals into actionable team objectives.
• Emotional Intelligence (EQ): High self-awareness and empathy. This builds trust, fosters team cohesion, and helps mediate conflicts. Narrative Storytelling: Translating complex technical information and data into compelling strategic visions that inspire emotional buy-in.
• Resilience & Composure: The capacity to remain calm under pressure, make tough decisions, and lead the team through organisational changes or setbacks.
• Integrity & Accountability: Being reliable, taking ownership of the team's successes and failures, and fostering a culture of honesty.
• Clear Communication: The ability to articulate expectations, provide constructive feedback, and inspire confidence across all levels of the organisation.