Enterprise Architect – Group Architecture

Deutsche Bank; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution is looking for an Enterprise Architect to work in London. This role involves defining architecture strategies and collaborating with various teams to enhance the bank's architecture framework. Ideal candidates will have a background in Financial Services and experience in architecture governance. The position offers a hybrid working model with competitive salary and benefits.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Non-contributory pension

30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays

Life Assurance and Private Healthcare

Flexible benefits including Retail Discounts and Gym benefits

2 days’ volunteering leave per year

Qualifications

• Experience in an architecture role specifically in Financial Services.
• Ability to document current states and develop target architectures.
• Experience in architecture governance with compliance assessment.

Responsibilities

• Define architecture tooling strategy and blueprint.
• Work on defining cross divisional target-states.
• Contribute to strategic digital architecture framework.

Skills

Experience in Financial Services

Stakeholder collaboration

Architecture governance

ArchiMate modelling

Job description

Overview

Job Title Enterprise Architect – Group Architecture

Location London

Corporate Title Vice President

Group Architecture (GA) is part of the Technology, Data & Innovation (TDI) division. GA plays a pivotal role in accelerating the delivery of a bank-wide simplified target architecture that enhances agility, increases technology speed-to-market, and reduces costs. GA's activities include coordinating the development of target architectures and roadmaps, implementing governance frameworks, deploying strategic tools, ensuring design discipline, and establishing policies and standards.

The Architecture Strategy team within GA coordinates the Bank’s target state architecture definition and execution. This is aligned with TDI strategies and standards, optimized to reduce duplication, increase capability, and balance cost.

In the role, of an Enterprise Architect specialist, you will be working as part of a small team on architecture strategy focused on driving Architecture strategy outcomes such as cross-division target-states, assessing change programmes compliance to target-states and ensuring our target-architecture is optimised.

What we’ll offer you

A healthy, engaged and well-supported workforce are better equipped to do their best work and, more importantly, enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace. That’s why we are committed to providing an environment with your development and wellbeing at its centre.

You can expect:

• Hybrid Working - we understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing. We have implemented a model that enables eligible employees to work remotely for a part of their working time and reach a working pattern that works for them
• Competitive salary and non-contributory pension
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase additional days
• Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family
• A range of flexible benefits including Retail Discounts, a Bike4Work scheme and Gym benefits
• The opportunity to support a wide-ranging CSR programme + 2 days’ volunteering leave per year

Your key responsibilities

• Assist the architecture strategy pillar lead in defining the architecture tooling strategy and blueprint
• Working on specific architecture initiatives and deliverables such as defining cross divisional target-states
• Contribute to defining the strategic digital architecture framework and building of a digital architecture and management information system (A&MI)
• Show us how to leverage architecture data to improve our architecture decision making
• Produce high quality architecture reporting that become a standard/ guiderail across Group and Domain Architecture of the Bank
• Encourage better ways of working, embedding architecture and design into our culture. Working across other architecture functions refining how we do architecture in the firm aligned to optimised ways of working.

Your skills and experience

• Experience in Financial Services with experience in an architecture role
• Experience in collaborating with stakeholders to document current states, develop target and transition architectures and resulting business & technology roadmaps
• Experience in architecture governance including defining and assessing compliance to architecture principles
• Summarising complex architecture / design related challenges in simple terms for senior management consumption
• Strong knowledge of ArchiMate modelling language

How we’ll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career
• Coaching and support from experts in your team
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs

About us

De Deutsche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. We invite you to learn more about what we do. Deutsche Bank in the UK is proud to have been named in The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2024 for six consecutive years. Additionally, we have been awarded a Gold Award from Stonewall and named in their Top 100 Employers 2024 for our work supporting LGBTQ+ inclusion.

If you have a disability, health condition, or require any adjustments during the application process, we encourage you to contact adjustments concierge on [e-mail] to discuss how we can best support you. Alternatively, you can share your phone number, and a member of the team will be happy to call you to talk through your specific requirements.

We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.

Together we share and celebrate the successes of our people. Together we are Deutsche Bank Group.

We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.