Enterprise Architect - Consumer & Digital Architecture in Leeds

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

• 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.
• 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, while acting as the voice of the customer and collaborating with all Business Platforms to enable delivery of the business roadmaps and guide relevant product delivery.
• You will build and sustain strong and productive partnerships with platforms and functions, promote, communicate, and evangelise the Bank's strategies, and work with third-party vendors and cloud service providers to evolve their products and services to meet the needs of large enterprise customers.
• An agile environment, hands-on experience with advanced and emerging technologies, and a habit of actively researching, experimenting, prototyping, and evaluating new capabilities are essential.

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.
• 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 communication and relationship-building skills, governance, guardrails, and architectural standards experience.

Benefits

• 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
• Generous parental leave policies

Equal Opportunities and Reasonable Adjustments

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 are disability confident. If you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.