Title: Senior Enterprise Architect
Coventry, GB, CV7 9JU
About Us
At Cadent we’re excited to be part of the future of UK energy! We’ve got a clear roadmap that will drive our performance to the forefront of our industry and support the UK government in achieving its net zero targets by 2050.
We’re making a difference through innovation and new ways of working. Together we’re shaping a cleaner, greener future for our 11 million customers whom we put at the heart of everything we do.
Job Purpose
Come join us as a Senior Enterprise Architect and help us in our digital revolution! As a Senior Architect, you will align the Enterprise Architecture with the business strategy and organisation design. You will support and guide the Architectural Runway Strategy as well as providing strategic technical direction across various teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Leading on the strategy for building and maintaining the architectural runway. Additionally, closely collaborate with System Architects and the Agile Team to guide the evolution of solutions, existing code, and technical infrastructure needed to implement near-term features without the use of excessive redesign and delay.
- Helping to realise the architectural vision which in turn allows for the Agile Teams to design, implement, test, and deliver value ensuring Built-In quality, whilst ensuring designed solutions continue to align with the broader technical vision.
- Leading, mentoring, supporting and developing our team of Enterprise and System Architects (up to 7 direct reports).
- Actively engaging with System Architects, ensuring all design choices are made with an understanding of the overall architectural strategy and roadmap, minimising technology complexity and avoiding unnecessary duplication of solutions or capabilities.
- Working alongside LPM to determine technology direction. Also working to define and communicate the architectural roadmap, ensuring business needs are constantly met and investments are used in the right areas.
- Working with Agile Teams and System Architects to help reuse code and existing design patterns to implement technology functionality and new business functionality.
- Supporting with synchronising various disciplines across solutions, including, but not limited to, system and data security and quality, solution user experience, nonfunctional requirements and more.
- Utilising the future systems design to influence the organisational design, specifically when identifying value streams and optimising teams within an Agile Release Train.
Skills and Experience
- Experience leading a team
- Relevant qualifications and certifications for Enterprise Architecture (TOGAF or OOA)
- Relevant Agile training and certification
- Demonstrable experience of defining and maintaining an enterprise-wide view of enterprise architecture including as-is architecture, target state architecture and an architecture roadmap.
- Experience working with business owners, product managers and products teams to understand strategic objectives and IT priorities to shape the IT portfolio investment priorities and the portfolio roadmap.
- Agile delivery experience preferably following Scaled Agile Framework
What’s In It For You
Here at Cadent, we are committed to supporting our employees to get the best out of themselves. For this role in particular we can offer:
- Funding and support towards completing qualifications
- Ample opportunity for progression within the business
- Mentoring and guidance opportunities
Why Join Us
We offer a host of benefits to suit your lifestyle and support your well-being. These include:
- Annual bonus
- Pension Scheme double matched up to a total of 18% of salary (i.e., employee contributions of up to 6%, double matched by a Cadent contribution of up to 12%)
- 25 days holiday, plus statutory days, and an option to buy more
- Fantastic career development prospects with funded learning options, including support with exams, and internal and external learning and development
- Strong focus on supporting you as an individual including:
- Flexible working
- Strong commitments to ED&I
- Generous family provision policies
- Flexible benefits including cycle to work scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, insurance, and healthcare packages, plus much more
- My Offers membership card – offering discounts and savings from hundreds of retailers
- 2 paid volunteering days per year
- Free gym access at the Ansty office, as well as a ‘Gympass’ scheme providing free or heavily subsidised local gym memberships
We want our employees to achieve a healthy work-life balance and are happy to discuss flexible working options with you if the role can accommodate it. Let us know about your flexibility requirements, whether that be reduced hours, remote working, flexible start/finish times, or compressed hours, and we will be more than happy to explore what’s possible for the role.
Diversity and Inclusion
Don’t meet every single requirement listed?
Understanding, learning, and celebrating what makes us different, as well as what we have in common, is good for us as individuals and enables us to work better together as one team. Cadent is committed to being an equitable and diverse employer that fosters an inclusive culture for all our employees, therefore, all our employment decisions are assessed based on qualifications, merit, and business need. So, if you’re excited about this opportunity but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification mentioned, we would still love for you to submit your application – You may just be the right person for this role or other opportunities at Cadent.
As a recognised Disability Confident Employer, we are proud to champion inclusion in the workplace and ensure to provide an environment that is accessible to all and supports individuals throughout their journey with Cadent. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments during the application process.
We place great importance on equity, diversity and inclusion, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Our employee communities Women in Cadent, Pride at Work (LGBTQ+), Embrace (ethnicity and religion), Thrive! (disability) and the Cadent Military Community can’t wait to welcome you!
Circle Back Initiative
As an active and proud member of The Circle Back Initiative, we aim to ensure that all candidates receive a response to their application, regardless of the outcome.
We will be receiving applications until the specified date above, though Cadent retains the right to close this vacancy early without prior notification, so it is advisable to complete your application at your earliest convenience.
Be part of something big. Help shape the future of gas for generations to come.
What’s next?
To be considered for this role, please submit your application with an up-to-date CV and our Talent Acquisition team will get in touch soon.
To learn more about Cadent and what we do, visit our website at Home | Cadent (cadentgas.com)
