Enterprise Architect - Consumer & Digital Architecture

Lloyds Banking Group•Halifax, NS

10d•£72,702 - £88,858•Hybrid

About The Position

This is an exciting opportunity for hands-on Enterprise Architects to join the Group’s CTO organisation at the heart of the UK’s biggest digital banking group. Ideal for ambitious engineers or technologists looking to extend their influence, these roles put you close to cutting edge digital technology and give you the platform to shape how it drives value at scale. You will provide practical, engineering aligned technology leadership across modern digital capabilities - including agentic, LLMs, digital protocols, wallet technologies, digital assets, and emerging ecosystem models - helping teams turn complex concepts into deliverable outcomes. You will bring strong ownership, integrity, and a collaborative mindset, working directly with teams across the Group who share strong values and a clear purpose. Each successful candidate will be aligned to the most relevant area within Consumer & Digital Architecture, based on their technical depth, experience, and ability to influence the future direction of our digital platforms and customer propositions. In conjunction with Consumer and Digital Architecture Platform owners and senior partners across the Bank, you will 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 will be accountable for continually influencing, challenging, and supporting the relevant 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 relevant product delivery. You’ll also be 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 will be key, as well as acting as 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. This is an agile environment working on challenging problems requiring dedication and leadership to help drive the transformation agenda. Working collaboratively and cultivating trust to get results.

Requirements

Hands-on experience with advanced and emerging technologies (e.g., GenAI, quantum, digital identity, digital protocols, wallet technologies, digital assets, and ecosystem models).
A habit of actively researching, experimenting, prototyping, and evaluating new capabilities to determine their real world value, maturity, and applicability to long-term strategy.
An open, collaborative, approachable, and friendly style, working effectively with both senior and junior engineering and product colleagues to build strong relationships, break down barriers, and influence direction across the Group.
Passion, energy, and strong ownership, driving your architecture portfolio forward with a laser sharp focus on delivering value to customers, clients, and the wider business.
Gravitas and impact, using compelling written and verbal storytelling to communicate architectural decisions, influence stakeholders, and align priorities.
A proven background in enterprise or solution architecture and/or engineering, with a solid understanding of architecture principles, frameworks, and hands-on technology practices.
Strong understanding of modern digital technology, spanning applications and infrastructure - e.g., containerised microservices, private/public cloud, APIs, event driven patterns, and platform engineering.
Recent experience translating architecture into outcomes, converting roadmaps and models into actionable delivery portfolios that support organisational change, including largescale and strategic programmes.
Broad technology knowledge across areas such as domain driven design, microservices, event driven architectures, hybrid cloud, modern cloud deployment models, service provider technologies, DevOps, CI/CD, modern data paradigms, cybersecurity, and resilience by design.
Strong intuition for digital technology and its business value, with the ability to turn complex or emerging concepts into practical guidance for engineering and business teams.
A deep understanding of modern software development, engineering practices, delivery cycles, and technology processes — comfortable engaging directly with engineering teams across the CTO organisation.
Strong communication and relationship building skills, enabling effective collaboration with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to shape architecture in a pragmatic and delivery aligned way.
Ability to view challenges from different perspectives.

Nice To Haves

Experience establishing or shaping effective governance, guardrails, and architectural standards that support innovation, safe delivery, and long-term platform sustainability.

Responsibilities

Provide practical, engineering aligned technology leadership across modern digital capabilities.
Build, evolve, and promote clear and comprehensive technology strategies that align with Group strategy.
Influence, challenge, and support Platform teams to build and align their strategic roadmaps.
Act as the voice of the customer and face into all Business Platforms to enable delivery of business roadmaps.
Build and sustain strong and productive partnerships with platforms and functions.
Promote, communicate, and evangelise the Bank’s strategies.
Build relationships with third party vendors and cloud service providers.
Act as senior partner to help vendors and cloud service providers evolve their products and services.
Lead, direct and shape approaches to solving technical and business challenges.
Translate S/M/L requirements into solutions and detailed roadmaps.
Establish or shape effective governance, guardrails, and architectural standards.