Lead Architect - Markets

Time left to apply: End Date: December 2, 2024 (15 days left to apply)
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 over 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, means 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, owning 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 on 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 maximizing 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 organization and seek to influence their thinking and gain commitment.
As a senior member of 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 deputize 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, particularly in Markets, Trade, and Lending products and processes.Detailed 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 a strong understanding of their potential business application and consequences, including how they align with 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.Experience in established complex organizations with large customer bases, with a good appreciation of the non-functional considerations and crafting systems accordingly.Breadth 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 the ability to influence decisions across an executive community.What you'd get in return: Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organization 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 organizations 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!
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 that 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. About UsFor over 320 years we've been making a difference to the lives of customers, businesses, and communities. With us, you'll be helping Britain prosper.
You'll be part of an ever-changing industry, playing a key role in shaping the financial services of the future whilst supporting our customers' changing needs.

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