Job Description

Lloyds Banking Group is the UK's leading digital bank, with over 16 million online customers, we're the UK's largest mobile bank. Our corporate strategy of helping Britain proposer outlines bold plans to deepen our customer relationships across our businesses. This is driving the need to invest £Bs to innovate, modernise and simplify our technology further. We're looking for architecture leaders to help drive this transformation.

Technology is at the heart of our business and architecture is at the heart of technology leadership - it is an integral part of our corporate strategy. As we go through this business and IT transformation, we need to be innovative, creative and forward thinking. Our goal is to ensure our services are based on modern, scalable and resilient technologies that deliver value to both our customers and our business.

About the role

Our culture brings together inquisitive and driven people from a diverse group of backgrounds where all can thrive.

You'll be joining a small, dynamic team of strategy setting Enterprise Architects, focused on the technology enablers that support all our colleague and customer services. For example: Cloud, Infrastructure, Data and API services.

We collaborate closely with business and engineering leaders across the organisation to drive strategy, deliver strategic roadmaps, provide thought leadership and inspire innovative solutions. We must view problems from many different perspectives and our architectural decisions must balance strategy with pragmatism to deliver the best outcome.

In the role, you'll be aligned to a technology enabler engaging with senior leaders, advising them on how to utilise technology to achieve outcomes and articulate options that balance the different drivers of change.

More About our Technology Enablers:

Data

Our data architecture team supports workloads across a wide range of data repositories including relational and NoSQL databases, data warehouses and data lakes. We're focused on modernising our data technology ecosystem through real-time streaming with Kafka and public cloud services like BigQuery. We develop strategic direction for our data models, optimise data for performance and reuse, embed data management controls, and drive exploitation of our data assets using analytical tools and AI/ML models.

Cloud

Enterprise scale solutions on both private and public clouds platforms, including Azure, GCP and AWS at web-scale; Cloud Native principles and supporting technologies (e.g., Microservices, DevOps, Containers & CI/CD); Public Cloud security tools and technologies; large-scale workload migrations from traditional hosting technologies to Public or Private Cloud.

Infrastructure

Our Infrastructure platforms cover a wide range of traditional hosting (X86 Wintel/Linux, Midrange Unix, Mainframe), networking, operational tooling, and datacentre services. These technologies support all our important business services and are crucial to the operation of the Group. Much of the focus in this area is modernising and simplifying our technology enabling agile, efficient change that can deliver secure, resilient, and cost-effective solutions at pace.

Api

In response to customers choosing different ways of integrating with us, we are leading transformation of how we deliver digital capability to best meet customer needs. Standards including OpenID Connect profiles, API gateways, microservices including event driven architectures, and domain driven design methodology.

About you

You're a forward‐looking and enthusiastic enterprise architect who can combine thought leadership, a passion for change, an ability to logically decompose complex problems and influence all levels of the organisation.

You'll typically have broad architecture experience spanning a variety of traditional, modern, and emerging technologies, ideally but not critically, in a financial or regulated industry.

You'll have a background in strategy setting, enterprise architecture or technology consulting roles. Ideally you'll have had experience in engineering and solution architecture during your career. You define architecture direction in the context of industry trends and understand how that can bring value to the organisation.

Key accountabilities

All architecture decisions made for the area you support.
Build compelling architecture strategies and roadmaps with comprehensive inputs from Business, Engineering, Operations, Industry and Vendors.
Pro-actively drive forward the agenda to simplify and modernise our technology landscape.
Keep pace with the latest industry direction and vendor offerings to ensure our strategies capitalise on new opportunities.
Influence our investment portfolios and the direction of major change programmes to ensure strategic architecture outcomes.
Build strong relationships and credibly communicate with key business and engineering collaborators across the organisation including CxOs.
You're an authority for an architecture domain with deep and broad knowledge of technology, methodology and assurance techniques.

Desirable technical experience: Broad experience covering many of the following, with a deep knowledge of at least one ('T' shaped):

Cloud platform technologies covering IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services on Azure, GCP and AWS.
Hybrid hosting architecture of cloud and tradition platforms including Midrange Unix and Mainframe technologies.
API architecture standards including OpenID Connect profiles, API gateways, microservices including event driven architectures.
Data trends including relational, NoSQL databases, data warehouses and data lakes.
Designing critically important systems which have challenging service parameters, for example RPO/RTO Zero.
Broad appreciation of cyber security (e.g., zero trust) and the architectural implications it has on application design.
Modern progressive technologies - e.g., machine learning, artificial intelligence, block chain etc.

About working for LBG

The environment we work in is fast paced, collaborative and dynamic: we also have fun along the way!


We're hybrid working - so you'll need to live within a commute of a hub location to get in one or two days a week and there may be elements of out of hours working which is well compensated.


But with a supportive and nurturing Leadership team we have the scale to provide you with ongoing opportunities to develop and achieve a rewarding and fulfilling career with us as well you receiving...

A competitive salary
A performance related annual bonus
Generous pension contribution of up to 15%
30 days holiday plus the bank holidays on top
A flexible cash pot (4% salary) you can spend on lifestyle benefits
Private health cover
Various share schemes, including free shares


We're also passionate about diversity and equal opportunity with industry recognition across gender, ethnicity, disability, LGBTQ+ and families. And, being disability positive, reasonable adjustments can be accommodated in our Recruitment process.


We're simply committed to building an inclusive environment where all our colleagues can be themselves and succeed on merit.


So if you have the technical background we're seeking and this opportunity appeals then get in touch, we'd love to hear from you...

Quick response

Required Knowledge

• K0001   Knowledge of computer networking concepts and protocols, and network security methodologies.
• K0004   Knowledge of cybersecurity and privacy principles.
• K0024   Knowledge of database systems.
• K0027   Knowledge of organization's enterprise information security architecture.
• K0179   Knowledge of network security architecture concepts including topology, protocols, components, and principles (e.g., application of defense-in-depth).
• K0227   Knowledge of various types of computer architectures.
• K0291   Knowledge of the enterprise information technology (IT) architectural concepts and patterns (e.g., baseline, validated design, and target architectures.)
• K0293   Knowledge of integrating the organization’s goals and objectives into the architecture.
• K0325   Knowledge of Information Theory (e.g., source coding, channel coding, algorithm complexity theory, and data compression).
• K0202   Knowledge of the application firewall concepts and functions (e.g., Single point of authentication/audit/policy enforcement, message scanning for malicious content, data anonymization for PCI and PII compliance, data loss protection scanning, accelerated cryptographic operations, SSL security, REST/JSON processing).
• K0277   Knowledge of current and emerging data encryption (e.g., Column and Tablespace Encryption, file and disk encryption) security features in databases (e.g. built-in cryptographic key management features).
• K0374   WITHDRAWN: Knowledge of basic structure, architecture, and design of modern digital and telephony networks. (See K0599)

Required Skills

• S0005   Skill in applying and incorporating information technologies into proposed solutions.
• S0027   Skill in determining how a security system should work (including its resilience and dependability capabilities) and how changes in conditions, operations, or the environment will affect these outcomes.
• S0122   Skill in the use of design methods.
• S0367   Skill to apply cybersecurity and privacy principles to organizational requirements (relevant to confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, non-repudiation).
• S0168   Skill in setting up physical or logical sub-networks that separate an internal local area network (LAN) from other untrusted networks.
• S0170   Skill in configuring and utilizing computer protection components (e.g., hardware firewalls, servers, routers, as appropriate).

Required Abilities

• A0008  Ability to apply the methods, standards, and approaches for describing, analyzing, and documenting an organization's enterprise information technology (IT) architecture (e.g., Open Group Architecture Framework [TOGAF], Department of Defense Architecture Framework [DoDAF], Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework [FEAF]).
• A0027  Ability to apply an organization's goals and objectives to develop and maintain architecture.
• A0060  Ability to build architectures and frameworks.
• A0048  Ability to apply network security architecture concepts including topology, protocols, components, and principles (e.g., application of defense-in-depth).
• A0061  Ability to design architectures and frameworks.
• A0148  Ability to serve as the primary liaison between the enterprise architect and the systems security engineer and coordinates with system owners, common control providers, and system security officers on the allocation of security controls as system-specific, hybrid, or common controls.