Architecture Analyst

Salary: £61,000 - 101,000 per year

Requirements:

• Experience in architecture, PMO, service management, or a 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 our Durrington office

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate our architecture governance forums, including agendas, scheduling, materials, and minutes
• Track decisions, actions, and outcomes from governance forums
• Perform first-line assurance checks to ensure governance artefacts are complete, consistent, and accessible, escalating exceptions where required
• Maintain our architecture repository and ensure the completeness and accuracy of applications, integrations, and relationships
• Manage onboarding and updates of architecture artefacts, assuring completeness and consistency before publication
• Ensure alignment between architecture data, CMDB, and other enterprise data sources
• Investigate data inconsistencies across tools and teams and coordinate remediation with data owners and tool administrators
• Implement routine data-quality controls and track remediation to closure
• Produce regular reporting on architecture metrics, highlighting trends, exceptions, and data-quality issues for governance forums
• Define and maintain standard metric definitions and data rules to support consistent reporting and decision-making
• Develop and maintain architecture MI dashboards and reports, including defined measures, data refresh routines, and stakeholder-ready visualisations
• Support the definition, adoption, and continuous improvement of our 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
• Help embed consistent ways of working across our architecture team
• Track architecture deliverables and commitments
• Support preparation of materials for governance and stakeholder engagement
• Provide general operational support to ensure the smooth running of our architecture function

Technologies:

• CMDB
• Support
• Power BI
• Architect

More:

We are partnering directly with Southern Water to hire for this permanent Architecture Analyst role based in Durrington on a hybrid working pattern. The salary is competitive depending on skills and experience, and the role supports the effective operation of our Architecture function through governance coordination, repository management, data quality, reporting, and continuous improvement.

last updated 39 week of 2026