Hybrid Enterprise Architect – CTO, Business Transaction Banking

at Lloyds Banking Group

• Job title: Enterprise Architect – CTO, Business Transaction Banking
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: £72,702 - £80,780 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud, Cyber Security, Microservices
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

About the role

• Enterprise Architect focusing on Digital, AI, Cloud technologies at Lloyds Banking Group. Collaborating with business teams to influence technology strategies for driving customer outcomes.

Responsibilities

• You’ll be experienced in building relationships and developing trust, providing thought leadership to business and technology change delivery colleagues, and maintaining alignment with and influencing the wider Group strategies.
• Build, evolve, and promote clear and comprehensive technology strategies that align with Group strategy and enable business teams to deliver the best customer outcomes.
• Continually influence, challenge, and support the Enabling Platform teams to build and align their strategic roadmaps alongside acting as the voice of the customer.
• Collaborate with key internal customers to build, maintain and evangelise clear and integrated technology strategies.
• Analysing the needs of our business partners to understand the modern technology platform capabilities and improvements that they need to deliver effectively and efficiently for their customers.
• Building and sustaining strong and productive partnerships with platforms and functions, promoting, communicating, and evangelising the Bank’s strategies.
• Building relationships with third party vendors and cloud service providers, acting as a senior partner to help them evolve their products and services to better meet the needs and strategies of large enterprise customers such as the Group.

Requirements

• Proven background in enterprise architecture with an understanding of architecture principles and frameworks
• Good understanding of modern technology from applications to infrastructure (e.g. containerised micro-services, cloud, API etc.)
• Experience in Commercial banking domains including Core banking, Payments, Channels is a plus.
• Point of view on emerging tech in areas like Digital assets and Digital identity
• Recent experience of translating architecture models and roadmaps into packages of work that drive organisational change (including strategic core programmes), to improve business outcomes
• Good technology knowledge across various topics including (but not limited to) domain driven models, microservices, event-driven design, hybrid cloud deployment models, cloud service provider technologies, DevOps, CI/CD, modern data paradigms, cyber security, resilience by design and sustainability.
• Awareness of emerging technologies (e.g., Gen AI, Quantum computing) their maturity and strong understanding of their potential business application and consequences including how they align to long term strategy
• Strong intuition for technology and its value to businesses – understanding mechanisms for implementing technology into business planning and execution.
• An in-depth understanding of systems development, change life cycles, best practices and approaches
• Communication and relationship building skills to work collaboratively to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Proven success in establishing a culture of continuous improvement and driving innovation.

Benefits

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies