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Principal Digital Solution Engineer
Fixed-term contract (12 months)
About the Role
E.ON’s Industrial & Commercial (I&C) business combines npower Business Solutions and E.ON B2B, operating a £5bn revenue business serving 60,000 customers and 300,000 meter points across the UK. As part of the Digital Technology & Change (DT&C) function, the Principal Digital Solution Engineer will provide senior technical leadership to shape the future of E.ON’s digital landscape.
This role ensures that enterprise platforms, cloud services, data, and applications are assembled into scalable, secure, and reusable digital solutions. As a technical authority, you will collaborate with Architects, Product Teams, Platform Teams, and Engineering Leaders to define:
- Solution patterns and integration strategies
- Cloud engineering standards to support modern digital products
Key Responsibilities
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Act as the technical authority for solution engineering, defining how enterprise platforms, data, and applications combine to form scalable, cohesive business solutions.
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Establish and enforce solution design patterns, integration frameworks, and reusable components aligned with enterprise architecture and engineering standards.
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Lead the design and delivery of complex, multi-platform solutions, ensuring consistency across products, domains, and business capabilities.
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Define and drive integration strategies, including:
- API-led
- Event-driven
- Data integration All ensuring security, resilience, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.
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Champion cloud-native solution design and cloud best practices, optimising for automation and enterprise governance alignment.
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Collaborate with Group Platform Teams to embed reusable, well-governed platform capabilities and maximise value from enterprise services.
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Drive standardisation and reuse across platforms, applications, and data services, influencing product architectures to reduce technical complexity and ensure long-term sustainability.
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Lead the adoption of emerging technologies, including AI-enabled solutions, while serving as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders on:
- Engineering strategy
- Investment decisions
- Digital innovation
Requirements
Essential
- Extensive experience in designing and delivering complex enterprise-scale digital solutions.
- Strong expertise in:
- Solution architecture
- Integration patterns
- Distributed systems
- Cloud platforms
- Deep understanding of:
- Enterprise integration
- Data ecosystems
- Cloud-native technologies
- Proven ability to influence across multiple teams, products, and senior stakeholders.
- Experience defining:
- Solution standards
- Reusable frameworks
- Engineering best practices
- Strong knowledge of:
- DevOps
- Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
- Modern product engineering approaches
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Desirable
- Experience with AI-driven solutions, orchestration, and automation technologies.
- Knowledge of:
- Enterprise architecture frameworks
- Governance models
- Experience working within:
- Global delivery environments
- Supplier ecosystems
- Commercial awareness with the ability to:
- Support investment decisions
- Business case development
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Benefits
Workplace & Culture
- Award-Winning Workplace: Named Sunday Times Best Place to Work 2025 and Top Employer for 16–34 Year-Olds.
Benefits
- 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Generous pension scheme
- Life cover
- Bonus opportunities
- 20 flexible benefits with tax/NI savings
Flexibility & Inclusivity
- Industry-leading hybrid and family-friendly policies (double Personality Today Award 2024 winner).
- Open to discussing personalised flexibility arrangements.
- Inclusive & Diverse: Ranked in Top 50 UK Employers, best for women, and Human Company of the Year.
- Support at Every Stage of Life:
- Fertility-friendly and menopause-friendly accredited.
- Segregated, inclusive support for employees.
Accessibility & Support
- Disability Confident Employer: Guarantees interviews for qualifying disabled applicants with any necessary adjustments.
Growth & Development
- Invested in your career growth:
- Inclusive talent networks
- Top-tier development programmes
- Personal and professional growth support
E.ON commit[s] to equal opportunities, diversity, equality, and flexibility.
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