Hybrid Enterprise Architect - CTO - Commercial

at Lloyds Banking Group

• Job title: Enterprise Architect - CTO - Commercial
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: £70,929 - £78,810 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud, Cyber Security, Microservices
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

About the role

• Senior Enterprise Architect in Commercial Banking, focusing on technology strategies and relationship building. Collaborate with teams to deliver effective solutions and enhance 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.
• You are accountable for continually influencing, challenging, and supporting the Enabling Platform teams to build and align their strategic roadmaps, alongside acting as the voice of the customer and facing into all the Business Platforms to enable delivery of the business roadmaps, guiding Cloud (Public & Private) product delivery.
• You’ll collaborate with key internal customers to build, maintain and evangelise clear and integrated technology strategies.
• You’ll be 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