Domain Architect - Bord Gais

Job Description

Join us, be part of more.

We’re so much more than an energy company. We’re a family of brands revolutionising how we power the planet. We're energisers. One team of 21,000 colleagues that's energising a greener, fairer future by creating an energy system that doesn’t rely on fossil fuels, whilst living our powerful commitment to igniting positive change in our communities. Here, you can find more purpose, more passion, and more potential. That’s why working here is #MoreThanACareer. We do energy differently - we do it all. We make it, store it, move it, sell it, and mend it.

Centrica, Technology is a core driver of how we deliver our strategy. You’ll join a team modernising our platforms, strengthening cyber and operational resilience, and advancing a product‑led way of working that brings engineers, data specialists and business experts together to deliver meaningful outcomes at pace.

We’re scaling automation and AI from proof‑of‑concept into real, end‑to‑end change - improving customer journeys, reducing cost‑to‑serve, accelerating delivery, and building the digital foundations that underpin everything from energy trading and risk to field operations and critical infrastructure.

If you want to work on complex, high‑impact problems using modern engineering practices, and help build reusable platforms that will shape how Centrica operates over the next decade, this is the place to do it.

An opportunity to play your part: The Bord Gáis Domain Architect is accountable for the end‑to‑end technology architecture across the entire Irish portfolio, providing technical leadership and architectural direction through a period of major transformation, including the migration to the ENSEK Ignition platform. The role shapes product‑aligned, outcome‑driven architecture that improves customer experience, strengthens operational performance, and simplifies the technology estate. Acting as the key architectural partner for Product, Engineering, and Delivery teams, the Domain Architect ensures alignment to Centrica’s enterprise guardrails, maximises reuse of strategic platforms, and makes informed, commercially balanced design decisions. They bring whole‑system thinking, market and regulatory awareness, and strong delivery engagement to ensure that architecture is practical, buildable, and scalable. The role also lifts architectural capability across the domain by coaching solution architects and fostering a culture of clarity, quality, and continuous improvement.

Location: UK-based hybrid role, Occasional travel to site.

The Day to Day:

• Define and maintain the target architecture for all Bord Gáis business lines - Residential, Business and Services. Ensure these roadmaps align to Centrica’s enterprise standards and the strategic direction set by Retail Architecture. Provide clear architectural direction to guide the transition to ENSEK Ignition and the required simplification/convergence of legacy platforms.

• Design architecture around the outcomes that matter for Bord Gáis - customer experience, operational efficiency, regulatory compliance (CRU/industry), and commercial performance. Ensure architectural decisions directly support the OKRs for Billing, Customer Service, Market Operations, and Field Services. Challenge solutions that create unnecessary complexity or cost.

• Champion the use of strategic platforms such as ENSEK Ignition and shared integration/API frameworks. Ensure Bord Gáis consumes shared capabilities where appropriate, while clearly identifying where the Irish market require local differentiation. Drive reuse of Centrica-wide accelerators and prevent divergence from Retail architectural guardrails.

• Operate within Centrica’s architectural guardrails and decision rights. Own architecture expertise within the Bord Gáis domain, escalating only when choices impact cross‑market capabilities, enterprise platforms, or introduce strategic risk. Ensure all designs meet enterprise NFRs, security standards, and data protection obligations.

• Design with an understanding of Irish industry processes (e.g., market flows, Gas/Elec market interactions, DSOs/TSOs, regulatory cycles), integrations to legacy BGE systems, and upstream/downstream impacts. Ensure architectures are robust, operable, cost‑efficient, and able to scale for customer growth and increased digital adoption.

• Work closely with the Platform, Product, and Bord Gáis programme teams to ensure designs are buildable and grounded in delivery reality. Adapt architectural direction as the architecture evolves. Measure architectural effectiveness by delivery progress and post‑go‑live adoption, not documentation.

• In partnership with Product and Finance, ensure architectural options factor in total cost of ownership, cloud economics, licensing (ENSEK & non‑ENSEK), vendor risk, regulatory impacts, and operational cost‑to‑serve. Provide clear analysis to support build‑vs‑buy decisions, platform extensions, or local differentiators required for the Irish market.

• Be the trusted architectural advisor for Bord Gáis leadership, including Product Directors, Programme Directors, Engineering Leads, and Technology Leaders and the wider Centrica Retail organisation. Communicate architectural decisions clearly and influence outcomes through expertise, not hierarchy.

• Coach and support the Solution Architects and engineers working across Bord Gáis initiatives. Promote clarity, quality, platform reuse, and continual improvement. Drive uplift in architectural maturity across B2C, B2B, Services and the Ensek Ignition migration.

What we need from you:

• Experience delivering solution and domain architectures across multiple projects or platforms.

• Strong understanding of business processes and their alignment with technology solutions.

• Excellent communication skills, able to engage technical and non-technical audiences.

• Strategic thinking with the ability to plan and implement mid to long-term technology roadmaps.

• Experience with architectural governance and compliance in a large organisation.

• Demonstrates the safe and responsible use of AI tools, with clear knowledge of when AI use is appropriate and strong awareness of accuracy, bias and compliance. Bringing the ability to design and reuse prompt templates to support consistent, high quality workflow outputs, and skilled in using AI to triage, classify and analyse information within Centrica policy guardrails.

• Strong ability to recognise higher risk scenarios and escalate to governance or security as needed. Alongside this, showing proficiency in enterprise AI copilots, knowledge assistants and AI enhanced productivity tools.

What's in it for you?

• Enjoy a generous market salary, along with fantastic growth opportunities and a vibrant work environment!

• Power up your pay with a 15% Employee Energy Allowance, surpassing the government's price cap!

• Secure your future with our comprehensive pension plan, designed for peace of mind.

• Elevate your health with our fully-funded company healthcare plan, prioritizing your well-being.

• Recharge with a generous 25-day holiday allowance, plus public holidays, and even purchase up to 5 extra days for extended relaxation!

• Experience unparalleled work-life balance with an exceptional selection of flexible benefits, from tech treats and eco-friendly car leases to travel insurance for your adventures!

Why should you apply?

Thinking of applying? Do it! A better you, paves the way for a better tomorrow. That’s why last year, over 3,000 colleagues made an internal move across Centrica – we’re proud to champion squiggly careers because your journey is just as important as ours. If you bring your energy, we’ll give you a platform to energise your career.

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Why should you apply?

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If you're full of energy, fired up about sustainability, and ready to craft not only a better tomorrow, but a better you, then come and find your purpose in a team where your voice matters, your growth is non-negotiable, and your ambitions are our priority.

Help us, help you. We would love for you to share any information about yourself throughout our recruitment process so that we can better understand you and help shape your journey.