Senior Enterprise Architect (Markets and Investments)

In this role you will lead the Enterprise Architecture for Markets, shaping the future target architecture and guiding cross‑functional teams to deliver strategic roadmaps. You will partner with business and platform teams to ensure technology aligns with market priorities, enabling strong client offerings. You will work in an agile environment to tackle high‑impact challenges and drive architecture decisions that support Lloyds Banking Group’s mission to help Britain prosper. This is a leadership role with emphasis on collaboration, stakeholder influence, and delivering architecturally significant outcomes.

• Generous pension contribution up to 15%
• Annual bonus subject to group performance
• Share schemes including free shares
• Discounted shopping benefits
• 30 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Wellbeing initiatives and parental leave policies

• Lead and own architectural decisions within the Markets domain and manage a small team
• Guide and support Markets teams in developing and delivering strategic roadmaps
• Represent the voice of the business with Group Enabling Platforms to align delivery with priorities
• Build trusted cross‑functional relationships across platforms, functions, and third‑party vendors
• Shape business propositions, vendor products, and partnerships to support commercial clients
• Work in an agile environment on complex, high‑impact challenges
• Provide leadership, problem solving, and clarity in technical and business decision making
• Contribute to setting architectural direction and ensuring delivery of impactful outcomes

• Breadth of experience in architecture, preferably with Markets/Investment Banking exposure
• High level understanding of cloud architecture (Azure; AWS or GCP experience desirable)
• Proven track record shaping and leading architectural outcomes in large organisations
• Knowledge across domain‑driven design, API and event‑based architectures, microservices, and DevOps/CI‑CD
• Understanding of modern data paradigms, cyber security, resilience by design, and sustainability
• Awareness of emerging technologies such as GenAI and potential business applications
• Strong storytelling and communication skills to present recommendations
• Experience in established organisations with large customer bases and consideration of non‑functional requirements
• Ability to collaborate effectively with partners and stakeholders
• Leadership experience and a culture of continuous improvement

• Collaborative and approachable
• Strong stakeholder management
• Storytelling and influencing
• Domain‑driven design
• API and event‑based architectures
• Microservices