Senior Enterprise Solution Architect

Job Description

We are Centrica! We’re so much more than an energy company. We’re a family of brands revolutionising a cleaner, greener future. Working here is #MoreThanACareer - we’re powered by purpose. Together we can make an impact that will truly change tomorrow. Whether you’re developing cutting-edge green tech, helping customers on the front line or simplifying operations behind the scenes.

Your work here isn’t just a job – it’s a mission. We all play a vital role in energising a greener, fairer future.

Centrica Energy is the global energy trading and logistics arm of Centrica Plc. We trade power, gas, LNG, and energy attributes and connect producers, suppliers and offtakers in the wholesale energy markets - and we provide our clients with the best route-to-market services available to the market today with physical and financial settlement approaches. In short, we call ourselves energy movers by nature.

We are looking for a Senior Enterprise Solution Architect, to join us on our journey!

What you’ll be doing:

Within the role of Senior Enterprise Solution Architect you will be responsible for ensuring that out Trading architecture is fit for the future ensuring systems, projects and enhancements are aligned to our business strategy across Centrica Energy. You will review current architecture across the function, challenge by posing the right questions and assist in building always with the future in mind.

This could look like ...

• Proposing technical solutions and vendor products for business problems and work with project team to deliver the solutions

• Liaising with all system owners and business verticals to ensure systems are fit for purpose and ensure a plan for keeping solutions for business up to date

• Producing high level technical designs and liaise with relevant group Infrastructure, cloud, security and network teams to ensure it fits with Centrica’s Architectural patterns and practices

• Proposing and modernising our tech stack.

How we work:

We embrace ‘flexible first’ as our guiding principle for flexible and hybrid working, which balances work, the team, and the individual need for flexibility. This role is based out of our London office, close to Marble Arch, with the team typically coming in 3 days per week. There will also be an occasional requirement to travel to our Denmark offices (Aalborg and Copenhagen).

A bit about you:

As an experienced Architect, you will possess the following:

• Experience as a solution architect or enterprise architect within a Commodity Trading Organisation, Investment Bank or similar environment

• Good exposure to front, middle and back office functions and their business processes

• Experience in agile development methodologies

• Experience with data warehousing and reporting and modern cloud and messaging patterns and practices

• Experience of Message bus stack RabbitMQ, Service Bus, Kafka etc

• Experience with General Cloud Architecture on Azure and AWS and the tech stack at architectural level

• Understanding of ETRM systems especially Endur

• General working knowledge of API connectivity stacks, etc

• Demonstrable experience of contributing to complex projects/initiatives

• Experience in working autonomously as well in medium to large teams

• Able to meet tight deadlines and negotiate in a pressurised environment

• Strong facilitation and influencing skills

• Be motivated, tenacious and pro-active in achieving results.

Your work, your way:

Centrica Energy is part of the wider Centrica Group – a family of brands all powered by the same purpose: Energising a Greener, Fairer Future.

We’re looking for people to add to our culture – not fit in with it. Every voice matters, and every different perspective is vital in ensuring we reflect the 10 million customers we serve. We're building a community where you can be unapologetically you, where differences are celebrated, and where everyone can belong.

Real inclusivity also means supporting the different realities our people face – and flexing the way we recognise and reward to suit you. We offer a choice of benefits to suit your own individual lifestyle, ensuring you and your family are taken care of, including the following:

• Rewarding you right: All colleagues are covered by our health and life insurance, and additional benefits packages, including location-specific benefits tailored to each of our locations

• When we do well, so do you: Because you’re a part of the Centrica family – each year we give all colleagues a slice of our profits as company shares

• When you’re ready to grow, we’re here for you: With dedicated career pathways, bespoke development programmes and an unlimited digital learning offering, here you’ve got all the tools you need to carve your own path.

• Powering positive change: All colleagues have two days every year to use for volunteering in their local communities.

#LI-CET #MakeYourMove #MoreThanACareer

At Centrica we embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. To build a more sustainable future, we need the best team – a team with a diverse mix of people and skills, where everyone feels welcome and able to succeed. We are dedicated in helping to close the diversity gap and would love to see more females, people of colour and LGBTQ+ employees, as well as those from a variety of cultures and ethnicity to veterans and the differently abled. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a big part of who we are, we are not looking for people to fit into our culture but to add to it!

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This role is being handled by the Centrica recruitment team and NO agency contact is required.