Enterprise Architect - Consumer & Digital Architecture in Manchester

End Date: Friday 17 July 2026

Salary Range: £72,702 - £80,780

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Job Description Summary:

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.

What you’ll need:

• Hands-on experience with advanced and emerging technologies (e.g., GenAI, quantum, digital identity, digital protocols, wallet technologies, digital assets, and ecosystem models), with 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.
• Experience establishing or shaping effective governance, guardrails, and architectural standards that support innovation, safe delivery, and long-term platform sustainability.

Fundamentally architecture at Lloyds Banking Group is a thought and technology leadership function, seeing opportunities to make a positive difference and influencing senior leaders and engineers to implement your strategies. You'll lead, direct and shape approaches to solving technical and business challenges, translating S/M/L requirements into solutions and detailed roadmaps and will possess the ability to view challenges from different perspectives.

About working for us:

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

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

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey. 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.