Lead Architect

JOB TITLE: Lead Architect.

SALARY: £124,600pa to £181,600pa (dependant on location and experience) plus extensive benefits

LOCATION: London, Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester.

HOURS: 35 hours, full time.

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at the listed hubs.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

Like the modern Britain we serve, we're evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We're embracing collaborative, agile ways of working, to help us deliver the best outcomes for our colleagues, customers and businesses. We're growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too!

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We're currently seeking a Lead Architect aligned to our Enabling CIO business area.  You’ll be experienced in building relationships and developing trust, providing thought leadership to business and technology change delivery colleagues, owning the technology strategy for your area of focus and maintaining alignment with and influencing the wider Group strategies.   You'll be a confident leader, passionate about architecture and making a difference who is able to build effective relationships at all levels (up to and including Executive level).

So, what would you be doing?

This is an opportunity for a leader who is enthusiastic about infrastructure, cloud, and engineering technologies to deliver business value in a pivotal position within the Group. An individual with a solid sense of ownership and integrity who enjoys working and collaborating with teams across the Group and who has strong values and clear purpose. In conjunction with Enabling Platform owners and senior partners across the Bank, you'll build, evolve, and promote clear and comprehensive technology strategies that align with Group strategy and enable business teams to deliver the best customer outcomes. You'll be 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. You'll also be 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.

As a senior member in the team, we'd like you to coach, mentor and develop some of our other architects, support the Chief Technology Office’s collective goals as well as deploying your team of architects to achieve your own.  On occasion, you would be expected to deputise for your Senior Leadership Team Member. This is an agile environment working on challenging problems requiring dedication and leadership to help drive the transformation agenda.

What you’ll need

• Demonstrable years’ experience of technology architecture,  with a solid understanding of traditional on-premises technologies as well as proven modern cloud technology delivery.

• Detailed 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

• An open, collaborative, approachable and friendly style, working well with both senior and junior colleagues, building strong relationships, and breaking down barriers. 

• Gravitas and impact to operate at a director level. You’ll use strong storytelling skills, both written and verbally, in how you present your communication recommendations in line with priorities.

• 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.

• Working up to Exec Level you'll excel at strategic direction setting with ability to influence decisions across an exec community.

• You'll be a confident leader, passionate about architecture and making a difference, able to build effective relationships at all levels (up to and including Executive level), being a strong influencer.

• You've worked in established complex organisations with large customer bases so have a good appreciation of the non-functional considerations and crafting systems accordingly.

• Breadth of experience in architecture, in a regulated industry (ideally financial).

Fundamentally architecture at Lloyds Banking Group is a thought leadership function, seeing opportunities to make a positive difference and influencing senior leaders and engineers to implement your strategies! You'll lead, direct and shape approaches to solving technical and business challenges, translating S/M/L requirements into solutions and detailed roadmaps and will possess the ability to view challenges from different perspectives.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• 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

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people?

Join our journey.