Southern Water

Architecture Analyst

Southern Water  •  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Hybrid)  •  2 hours ago
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Job Description

Closing Date

2026-09-07

Job Title: Architecture Analyst

Location: Durrington (Hybrid)

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary: Competitive depending on skills and experience

The Architecture Analyst supports the effective operation of the Architecture function by ensuring governance processes run smoothly, architecture data is accurate and aligned, and architecture tooling and repositories are maintained.

Working under general direction, the role plans and delivers defined work packages, proactively manages stakeholder needs, and escalates risks and issues where required.

The role enables the Architecture team to operate efficiently by managing artefacts, tracking actions, maintaining data quality, and supporting continuous improvement.

Accountabilities

Governance Coordination

  • Coordinate architecture governance forums (agenda, scheduling, materials, minutes)
  • Track decisions, actions, and outcomes from governance forums
  • Perform first-line assurance checks to ensure governance artefacts are complete, consistent and accessible; escalate exceptions as required

Architecture Repository Management

  • Maintain the architecture repository (e.g. Orbus Infinity or equivalent)
  • Ensure completeness and accuracy of applications, integrations, and relationships
  • Manage onboarding and updates of architecture artefacts, assuring completeness and consistency before publication

Data Quality & Alignment

  • Ensure alignment between architecture data, CMDB, and other enterprise data sources
  • Lead investigation of data inconsistencies across tools and teams and coordinate remediation with data owners and tool administrators
  • Implement routine data-quality controls (e.g. completeness checks, lifecycle status validation, duplicates) and track remediation to closure
  • Produce regular reporting on architecture metrics (e.g. lifecycle, technical debt, risk), highlighting trends, exceptions and data-quality issues for governance forums
  • Define and maintain standard metric definitions and data rules (measures/KPIs, thresholds, reference data) to support consistent reporting and decision-making
  • Develop and maintain architecture MI dashboards and reports (e.g. in Power BI), including defined measures/KPIs, data refresh routines, and clear stakeholder-ready visualisations.

Process & Continuous Improvement

  • Support the definition, adoption and continuous improvement of architecture processes, templates and ways of working
  • Identify inefficiencies and recommend improvements
  • Maintain and prioritise a rolling backlog of repository improvements, reporting requirements and data fixes, agreeing priorities with the Lead Solution Architect
  • Help embed consistent ways of working across the architecture team

Operational Support

  • Track architecture deliverables and commitments
  • Support preparation of materials for governance and stakeholder engagement
  • Provide general operational support to ensure smooth running of the architecture function

Skills & Competencies

  • Information Management – Maintains architecture information and ensures its quality and integrity.
  • Configuration Management – Supports alignment between architecture repository and service/configuration data.
  • Governance – Enables governance processes through coordination and tracking.
  • Methods and Tools – Supports architecture tools, templates, and processes.
  • Reporting & Data Visualisation (Power BI) – Builds and maintains dashboards and standard reports from architecture and service data; supports data validation and communicates insights to enable decision-making.
  • Quality Management – Ensures quality and consistency of architecture data and artefacts.
  • Stakeholder Relationship Management – Builds effective working relationships with delivery teams and tool/data owners to agree updates, resolve issues and embed consistent ways of working.

Knowledge

  • Experience in architecture, PMO, service management, or similar support function
  • Strong organisational and coordination skills
  • Experience working with tools such as Orbus Infinity, CMDB, or similar repositories
  • Experience producing MI and dashboards using Power BI (or equivalent reporting tools)
  • High attention to detail and strong data management capability
  • Ability to work across multiple teams and stakeholders
  • Strong communication and follow-up discipline

Onsite a minimum of 2 days per week in Durrington office.

Southern Water

About Southern Water

We are one of the largest water and wastewater companies in the South East of England and thrive on the passion and hard work of more than 2,000 employees.

Together we supply 532 million litres of drinking water every day to more than two million customers and treat and recycle 717 million litres of wastewater for more than four million customers in Kent, Sussex, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

Water is essential to every aspect of our lives and we're proud to be at the heart of managing water and wastewater services. We drink it, cook with it and use it to clean. Our water supply faces big challenges - the population of the South East is growing fast, and climate change is bringing greater risk of droughts and more extreme weather. It’s a future of more people needing water and wastewater services, with less water to go around.

So, together with our customers and communities, we aim to provide a sustainable, high-quality water and wastewater service that helps us create a resilient future for water in the South East.

Find out more about us:

Website: www.southernwater.co.uk

Facebook: www.facebook.com/SouthernWater

Twitter: @SouthernWater

Instagram: @southernwatermedia

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Industry
Energy & Utilities
Company Size
1,001-5,000 employees
Headquarters
Worthing, GB
Year Founded
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