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. Drive innovation, guide decisions, and shape the architecture of tomorrow. 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 roadmaps, 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. What You’ll Be Doing 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 roadmaps, 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. As a valued employee, you’ll be entitled to: 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 What does it take to be a Lead Enterprise Architect 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. Skills and Qualifications: Being an EA enthusiast with a passion and knowledge of architecture best practices, patterns, standards, and frameworks. Significant experience in a customer facing architecture roles responsible for development of technical capabilities and roadmaps aligned to customer demand and industry trends. Experience of operating within an Agile delivery function and culture of continuous integration, delivery & improvement. Experience working in a matrix-managed organisation. A strong ability to form good relationships with a diverse set of very senior stakeholders in all parts of an organisation and able to facilitate conflict resolution and negotiation. Experience of coaching technical delivery resources to ensure the appropriate interpretation and adoption of practices. Familiar with a broad range of technology concepts and vendors (particularly Microsoft and SAP) Knowledge management skills with experience of building knowledge repositories that encourage collaboration and inputs. Experience or knowledge of EA modelling languages including ArchiMate. Experience of operating and defining strategies, and future and transition states within a large complex enterprise. Experience of people management Why Apply? This is a unique opportunity to shape the digital future of Anglian Water, influencing how technology and business strategy come together to drive transformation and innovation. You’ll work closely with senior stakeholders, lead complex architectural decisions, and have the chance to make a real, tangible impact across the organisation. You’ll also lead a high-performing Enterprise Architecture team, develop your leadership skills, and contribute to a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and innovation. If you’re passionate about shaping enterprise-wide architecture, solving complex challenges, and driving meaningful change, this role offers both influence and career growth. Closing date: 11th January 2026 #loveeverydrop We are committed to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve in both our workforce and our supply chain partners to help us to understand and meet the needs of our customers. We are passionate and dedicated to the learning and development of our people, making sure they have the right skills and knowledge to be successful and to help achieve their potential. We want to give everyone equal access to our recruitment process. If you have a disability or long-term condition, including neurodiversity and mental health conditions, we’ll support you throughout your application, and make any adjustments to make sure your disability or long-term condition is not a barrier to recruitment. 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