Enterprise Architect – Consumer & Digital Architecture

Job Overview

Enterprise Architect – Manchester, Edinburgh, Leeds, Bristol, Halifax. Full‑time: 35 hours per week. Hybrid working style: at least two days per week in office.

Salary: £72,702 – £88,858. End date: Friday 17 July 2026.

Responsibilities

• Provide practical, engineering‑aligned technology leadership across modern digital capabilities, including agentic systems, large‑language models (LLMs), digital protocols, wallet technologies, digital assets, and emerging ecosystem models.
• Help teams turn complex concepts into deliverable outcomes.
• Bring strong ownership, integrity, and a collaborative mindset while working directly with cross‑functional teams sharing a clear purpose.
• Align with the most relevant area within Consumer & Digital Architecture based on technical depth, experience, and influence on future direction of digital platforms and customer propositions.
• Build, evolve, and promote clear and comprehensive technology strategies that align with Group strategy and enable business teams to deliver the best customer outcomes.
• Accountably influence, challenge and support relevant Platform teams to build and align their strategic roadmaps.
• Act as the voice of the customer, interface with all Business Platforms to enable delivery of business roadmaps, and guide product delivery.
• Build and sustain strong, productive partnerships with platforms, functions, third‑party vendors, and cloud service providers, acting as senior partner to help evolve products and services for large enterprise customers.
• Work in an agile environment on challenging problems, delivering results through collaboration and trust building.

Qualifications

• Hands‑on experience with advanced and emerging technologies such as GenAI, quantum, digital identity, digital protocols, wallet technologies, digital assets, and ecosystem models.
• Active research, experimentation, prototyping and evaluation of new capabilities to determine real‑world value, maturity and applicability to long‑term strategy.
• Open, collaborative, approachable, and friendly communication style with senior and junior engineering and product colleagues.
• Passion, energy and strong ownership driving an architecture portfolio with laser 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.
• Proven background in enterprise or solution architecture and/or engineering, with solid understanding of architecture principles, frameworks and hands‑on technology practices.
• Strong understanding of modern digital technology spanning applications and infrastructure such as 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 large‑scale and strategic programmes.
• Broad technical knowledge across 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, enabling practical guidance for engineering and business teams.
• 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 to collaborate effectively with product, engineering and business stakeholders in a pragmatic, delivery‑aligned way.
• Experience establishing or shaping effective governance, guardrails and architectural standards that support innovation, safe delivery and long‑term platform sustainability.
• Demonstrated ability to view challenges from multiple perspectives and translate them into solutions, detailed roadmaps, and actionable plans.

Benefits

• Generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• Annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
• Share schemes including free shares
• Adaptable benefits such as discounted shopping
• 30 days holiday, plus bank holidays
• Range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Diversity & Inclusion

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We especially welcome applications from under‑represented groups and are disability confident. We are committed to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve.

Contact

Please email careers@lloydsbanking.com for more information.

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