Enterprise Architect – Consumer & Digital Architecture

Job Overview

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.

Responsibilities

• Provide engineering‑aligned technology leadership across modern digital capabilities—including agentic, LLMs, digital protocols, wallet technologies, digital assets, and emerging ecosystem models—to help teams turn complex concepts into deliverable outcomes.
• Build, evolve, and promote clear and comprehensive technology strategies that align with Group strategy and enable business teams to deliver the best customer outcomes.
• Act as the voice of the customer and engage with all Business Platforms to enable delivery of business roadmaps and guide relevant product delivery.
• Build and sustain strong and productive partnerships with platforms, functions, and third‑party vendors and cloud service providers, acting as a senior partner to help them evolve their products and services to meet the Group’s needs.
• Lead, direct, and shape approaches to solving technical and business challenges, translating small/medium/large requirements into solutions, detailed roadmaps, and actionable delivery portfolios.
• Research, experiment, prototype, and evaluate new capabilities—such as GenAI, quantum, digital identity, digital protocols, wallet technologies, and digital assets—to determine their real‑world value, maturity, and applicability to long‑term strategy.
• Communicate architectural decisions, influence stakeholders, and align priorities through compelling written and verbal storytelling.
• Translate architecture into outcomes, converting roadmaps and models into actionable delivery portfolios that support organisational change, including large‑scale and strategic programmes.
• Establish or shape effective governance, guardrails, and architectural standards that support innovation, safe delivery, and long‑term platform sustainability.

Qualifications

• 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 large‑scale and strategic programmes.
• Broad technology 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, with the ability to turn complex or emerging concepts into practical guidance for engineering and business teams.
• Deep understanding of modern software development, engineering practices, delivery cycles, and technology processes, and 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 pragmatic, delivery‑aligned architecture.
• Experience establishing or shaping governance, guardrails, and architectural standards that support innovation, safe delivery, and long‑term platform sustainability.

Benefits

• Generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• Annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
• Share schemes, including free shares
• Benefits that can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days holiday, plus bank holidays
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

We are committed to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. We welcome applications from under‑represented groups and provide reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process. We also offer a dedicated working‑with‑cancer initiative, menopause health package, and other supportive programmes.

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