Enterprise Architect

Enterprise Architect SALARY: £71,000 - £86,691
HOURS: Full-Time
Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in Edinburgh or Bristol office site

We're currently seeking an Enterprise Architect aligned to our Business and Commercial Banking, Enabling CIO business area. You'll be experienced in building relationships and developing trust, providing thought leadership to business and technology change delivery colleagues, and maintaining alignment with and influencing the wider Group strategies. You'll be a confident individual, passionate about architecture and making a difference, able to build effective relationships at all levels (up to and including Executive level)

This is an opportunity for an architect who is enthusiastic about Digital, AI, Cloud, Data and engineering technologies to deliver business value in a pivotal position within the Group. In conjunction with Enabling 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 are accountable for continually influencing, challenging, and supporting the Enabling 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 Cloud (Public & Private) product delivery.

You'll collaborate with key internal customers to build, maintain and evangelise clear and integrated technology strategies. You'll be analysing the needs of our business partners to understand the modern technology platform capabilities and improvements that they need to deliver effectively and efficiently for their customers.

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, acting as a 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. An open, collaborative, approachable and friendly style, working well with both senior and junior colleagues, building strong relationships, and breaking down barriers.
Good understanding of modern technology from applications to infrastructure (e.g. containerised micro-services, cloud, API etc.)
Experience in Commercial banking domains including Core banking, Payments, Channels is a plus.
Point of view on emerging tech in areas like Digital assets and Digital identity
Good technology knowledge across various topics including (but not limited to) domain driven models, microservices, event-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
Strong intuition for technology and its value to businesses - understanding mechanisms for implementing technology into business planning and execution.
Communication and relationship building skills to work collaboratively to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Proven success in establishing a culture of continuous improvement and driving innovation.
You'll be a confident individual, passionate about architecture and making a difference, able to build effective relationships at all levels (up to and including Executive level), being a strong influencer.
Breadth of experience in architecture, in a regulated industry (ideally financial).

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 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.

We're disability confident. 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