Lead Architect

Overview

As Lead Architect at National Grid, you will shape technology strategy and enterprise architecture to enable secure, scalable, and resilient systems. You’ll bridge Chief Architect activities with product lines, guiding governance and solution design across the change portfolio.

The role requires collaboration with product, engineering, and business teams to embed enterprise standards and drive strategic transformation. This is a senior, impact‑driven position at the heart of the technology transformation.

You will help raise architectural maturity and foster a forward‑looking architecture capability.

Pay / Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Performance bonus up to 40%
• Fully electric company car or cash allowance
• Private medical insurance
• 28 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Generous pension with enhanced employer contributions

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic planning aligning roadmaps and investment with business objectives
• Produce insights, analysis, and reports to support strategy management and decision‑making
• Coordinate information and technology strategies for enterprise‑wide approaches
• Lead lifecycle management of digital information and records with compliant practices
• Align technology strategy with business mission and operating models
• Monitor emerging technologies and share insights through roadmaps and reports
• Advise on investment appraisal approaches and lead complex project appraisals
• Lead business continuity planning and resilience improvements
• Drive business process improvement using automation and new technologies
• Build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships and translate engagement into action

Key requirements

• Broad experience in utilities or regulated environments
• Understanding of business architecture within the wider solution architecture lifecycle
• Knowledge of enterprise architecture activities, artefacts, and deliverables
• Experience with architecture continuums and related governance processes
• Ability to operate at senior leadership level and influence across the organisation
• Strong leadership, communication, and presentation skills with delivery track record
• Experience in strategic planning, investment planning, and product planning
• Understanding of current and emerging product practices and Agile methodologies
• Experience in a heavily matrixed organisation and influencing without authority
• Knowledge of financial management, benefits management, and benefits realisation
• Leadership
• Communication
• Presentation
• Enterprise architecture methodologies and artefacts
• Architecture governance and assurance processes
• Strategic planning and investment appraisal

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