Senior Enterprise Architect – Digital Platform & GenAI (Hybrid) in Manchester

This is an exciting opportunity for two highly 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, 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 large scale 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.

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 also welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. If you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

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 and generous parental leave policies