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For many of our office based colleagues, we work in hybrid ways which involves spending at least two days per week or 40% of their time at one of our office sites. You can work from any of the following locations: West Yorkshire (Leeds or Halifax), Manchester, Edinburgh, Bristol, London, Cardiff, Birmingham, Chester.

Want to make a difference in an area of strategic importance and growth? This role could be the opportunity you’re looking for!

About the roles:

Our team is growing! We have a number of roles to fill across the Business & Commercial Banking team.

There’s never been a better time to join our Enterprise Architecture team. Within the group there has been a reawakening of the enormous value, good Enterprise Architecture brings to our organisation.

This originates with our CEO and is championed throughout the organisation, fostering an environment where decisions are based on how we leverage technology to build a future where we are robust, safe and sustainable; supporting the needs of our customers today and for tomorrow. You'll be joining a small, dynamic team of strategy setting Enterprise Architects, focused on the technology enablers that support all our colleague and customer services.

We collaborate closely with business and engineering leaders across the organisation to drive strategy, deliver strategic roadmaps, provide thought leadership and inspire innovative solutions. We must view problems from many different perspectives and our architectural decisions must balance strategy with pragmatism to deliver the best outcome.

You'll be aligned to Business & Commercial Banking (BCB) engaging with senior leaders, advising them on how to utilise technology to achieve outcomes and articulate options that balance the different drivers of change.

The BCB business provide all the banking needs for our Commercial customers ranging from sole traders all the way up to our mid corporates. It covers a very broad range of products including traditional bank accounts, corporate cards, working capital management, loans, merchant services, asset and invoice finance etc.

This is a growth business for us with significant investment over the next 5 years with an ambition of being the best digital bank for business clients!

With this investment brings significant architectural change and growth in the team. We're redesigning significant portions of our estate as well as engaging on a bold programme to optimise our application portfolio. We're at the start of this journey so lots of opportunities to craft the new architecture of the future.

About you:

If you love to drive the strategy, find chances to create valuable contributions and turn new ideas into reality then this could be the role for you.

You're a forward‐looking and enthusiastic enterprise architect who can combine thought leadership, a passion for change, an ability to logically decompose complex problems and influence all levels of the organisation.

You'll typically have broad architecture experience spanning a variety of traditional, modern, and emerging technologies, ideally but not critically, in a financial or regulated industry.

You’ll have a background in strategy setting, enterprise architecture or technology consulting roles. Ideally you'll have had experience in engineering and solution architecture during your career. You define architecture direction in the context of industry trends and understand how that can bring value to the organisation.

Key accountabilities:

All architecture decisions made for the area you support.

Build compelling architecture strategies and roadmaps with comprehensive inputs from Business, Engineering, Operations, Industry and Vendors.

Pro-actively drive forward the agenda to simplify and modernise our technology landscape.

Keep pace with the latest industry direction and vendor offerings to ensure our strategies capitalise on new opportunities.

Influence our investment portfolios and the direction of major change programmes to ensure strategic architecture outcomes.

Build strong relationships and credibly communicate with key business and engineering collaborators across the organisation including CxOs.

You're an authority for an architecture domain with deep and broad knowledge of technology, methodology and assurance techniques.

Desirable technical experience: Broad EA/ IT experience covering many of the following, with a deeper knowledge of at least one or two of the below (‘T’ shaped):

Cloud platform technologies covering IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services on Public Cloud (such as Azure or GCP) Complex systems integration including variety of integration methods and technologies including web services, REST, event based integration using Kafka. Domain and microservice based architecture with a good understanding of various microservice patterns and best practices. Client and Colleague facing solutions with good understanding of authentication and authorisation frameworks for external and internal facing users (SSO, JWT, OpenID Connect). Hybrid hosting architecture of cloud and tradition platforms including, modern container/k8s based platforms, Midrange Unix and Mainframe technologies. API architecture standards including API authentication, API gateways and role of API marketplace. Data architecture including having a clear PoV on role of relational, NoSQL databases, data warehouses, data lakes and datahouses and experience of data security, privacy & ethics Designing critically important systems to stringent service parameters across performance, resilience and availability.

Additionally,

Broad appreciation of cyber security (e.g., zero trust) and the architectural implications it has on application design. Knowledge of modern progressive technologies – e.g., machine learning, artificial intelligence, block chain etc.

You’ll bring the experience, skills and passion to lead us further along our transformation journey… and we’ll bring opportunities on a scale not many organisations can match.

What's in it for you?

Join us and be part of an inclusive, values-led culture that celebrates diversity, promotes equal opportunity, and provides opportunities for flexible working in a collaborative environment.

We will provide you with a diverse, energising, and informal environment that takes a strong focus on equal opportunity and supports career progression on all levels. Enhancing your personal and professional development is something that is very important to us, and we will work with you to make a positive difference to the overall teams' mission. We want you to learn, grow & develop to become the best possible version of yourself.

We'll ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided suitable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Our approach to inclusion and diversity means that we all can make a real difference, Together We Make It Possible!

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.