Lead Architect - Markets

JOB TITLE: LEAD ARCHITECT - MARKETS

SALARY: £140,000 - £165,000 per annum plus the benefits listed below.

LOCATION: London.

HOURS: Full-time.

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week on site and 3 days from home. Additionally, you can work from home all 5 days a week between the months of July and September each year.

Here at Lloyds Banking Group (LBG), we put our customers at the heart of everything we do, and every colleague has an important part to play.

With 30 million + customers, millions of transactions and 70 thousand colleagues, we have some of the largest datasets in the UK. This combined with our focus in areas such as Gen AI and AI Ethics mean you'll be working at the forefront of Data Science in the banking industry.

Want to hear more?

We're currently seeking a Lead Architect aligned to Markets within our Corporate & Institutional Banking business unit.  You’ll be experienced in building relationships and developing trust, providing thought leadership to business and technology change delivery colleagues, owing the technology strategy for your area of focus and maintaining alignment with and influencing the wider Group strategies.   You'll be a confident leader, passionate about architecture and making a difference, able to build effective relationships at all levels (up to and including Executive level)

So, what would you be doing?

This is where things get interesting...

You'll be working with end-to-end agile project teams to help influence the transformation of our platform's capabilities balancing customer and business outcomes, risk, cost and time. You'll also lead the strategy and work with colleagues to agree the roadmap and technical approach for the assigned area.  Additionally, you'll collaborate with other members of the architecture team to help shape and deliver the wider strategy – for example, adoption of cloud capabilities for these critical services and to maximise the benefits and flexibility of an API and data centric technology platform.

You'll drive the implementation and adoption of your ideas helping cultivate strong teams to make this happen and finally you would present your proposals to diverse groups within the organisation and seek to influence their thinking and gain commitment.

As a senior member in the team, we'd like you to coach, mentor and develop some of our other architects, support the Chief Technology Office’s collective goals as well as deploying your team of architects to achieve your own.  On occasion, you would be expected to deputise for your Senior Leadership Team Member.

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.

So, about you...

The essential skills we're looking for

• Demonstrable years’ experience of Commercial and Institutional Banking and in particular Markets, Trade and Lending products and processes.

• Detailed technology knowledge across various topics including (but not limited to) domain driven models, microservices, evet-driven design, hybrid cloud deployment models, cloud service provider technologies, devops, CI/CD, modern data paradigms, cyber security, resilience by design and sustainability.

• Awareness of emerging technologies (e.g., Gen AI, Quantum computing) their maturity and strong understanding of their potential business application and consequences including how they align to long term strategy.

• Gravitas and impact to operate at a director level. You’ll use strong storytelling skills, both written and verbally, in how you present your communication recommendations in line with priorities.

• You've worked in established complex organisations with large customer bases so have a good appreciation of the non-functional considerations and crafting systems accordingly.

• Breath of experience in architecture, in a regulated industry (ideally financial).

Fundamentally architecture at Lloyds Banking Group is a thought 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.

Working as a senior leader you'll excel at strategic direction setting with ability to influence decisions across an exec community.

What you'd get in return

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're committed to creating a consciously inclusive workplace where our colleagues can be themselves, thrive and perform at their best. 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. As an inclusive employer, we offer Workplace Adjustments for colleagues with a disability (which may include long-term health and neurodivergent conditions) where it is reasonable to do so. This could include flexibility with regards to office attendance, location, and working pattern.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you have a disability, you can also apply via our Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). Through the DCS, we guarantee to interview a fair and proportionate number of applicants with a disability, whose application meets the minimum criteria for the advertised job role. We also provide adjustments that are reasonable throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers for applicants with a disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergent condition. If you'd like an adjustment to the recruitment process just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%.

• An annual performance-related bonus.

• 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.

If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch.

We'd love to hear from you!