Enterprise Architect (Payments) in Manchester

The Enterprise Architect will play a key role within a team of Architects to develop the architectural strategy & to support the Platform they are aligned to. They will be a technologist that supports their Platform define the strategic north star and technology roadmaps associated to these. They will be an individual contributor within a team, requiring strong stakeholder management skills, technical skills, and good domain knowledge.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Group Payments team and play a key role in shaping and delivering our Technology Strategy. Working closely with senior architects and business stakeholders, you'll support the development of architectural direction that enables the Group's strategic ambitions. You'll help translate strategy into practical architecture outcomes, ensuring solutions are aligned to our technology principles, business priorities and risk appetite.

Group Payments is a critical part of the Group's growth strategy. We process around 20% of the UK's payments, supporting everything from everyday transactions through to large-scale domestic and international payments. We're on a journey to transform our payments platforms using modern technologies, while exploring innovations such as distributed ledger technology, blockchain and digital assets across real-world use cases. In this role, you'll contribute to that transformation, helping shape solutions that deliver value at scale.

As a result, day-to-day you would:

• Support the development and evolution of architecture within the Payments domain, ensuring alignment to Group strategy
• Work closely with Lead Architects to create and maintain architecture roadmaps, patterns and guardrails
• Act as a trusted partner to technology and business teams, providing architectural guidance and insight
• Contribute to architecture governance, ensuring solutions meet standards, risk requirements and strategic objectives
• Develop and maintain architecture artefacts, including designs, roadmaps and feasibility assessments
• Apply knowledge of cloud, APIs, traditional hosting and event-driven architectures to support solution design
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams in an agile environment to deliver end-to-end outcomes

What you'll need:

• Experience working in an Architecture role, contributing to strategy, solution design and delivery
• Knowledge of architecture practices including governance, roadmapping and solution development
• Technical understanding of cloud platforms, APIs, traditional hosting and event-driven architectures
• Ability to support business and technology stakeholders, translating requirements into architectural solutions
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with an agile and delivery-focused mindset
• An understanding of Payments within Financial Services
• Aware of emerging technologies such as blockchain and digital assets and their potential application

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we're committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

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
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

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'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.