Lead Architect - Enterprise - Payment Capability

Co-operative Bank plc; Coventry; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 82,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car allowance

Discretionary annual bonus

Hybrid work pattern

Disability Confident Employer

Job summary

Co-operative Bank plc is seeking a Lead Architect - Enterprise - Payment Capability. The role sits in our Enterprise Architecture team, shaping architecture for payment capabilities across the financial services domain and collaborating with business leaders to align with strategy.

You will develop cross-portfolio roadmaps, ensure regulatory alignment and drive architectural design while navigating budget guardrails. Hybrid work in Coventry/Manchester is expected with some travel.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience shaping enterprise architecture and payment capabilities in financial services organisations.
• Ability to translate the enterprise strategy into portfolio themes, vision and guardrails.
• Strong written and verbal communication with senior stakeholders and committee papers.
• Degree or equivalent and architecture certification e.g. TOGAF.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture design across the payment capability portfolio and value streams.
• Collaborate with Business Owners & Sponsors to define strategy, themes and roadmaps.
• Drive portfolio technology strategy, budget guardrails and architectural standards.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Payment capabilities

Regulatory alignment

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

TOGAF certification

Job description

Lead Architect - Enterprise - Payment Capability

• Lead Architect - Enterprise - Payment Capability

About the role

As the second largest Building Society in the UK and the 8th largest lender, we know a thing or two about Savings and Mortgages. The Society has grown significantly over the past decade in particular and now has over 2500 employees and 1.8 million members. The Society is a Which recommended savings provider and we’re proud to be rated as a Great Place to Work.

This is a key role in the Enterprise Architecture team, providing an exciting opportunity for someone with extensive experience of Enterprise Architecture and ideally financial services, who can confidently act as a subject matter expert, engaging positively with key business leader stakeholders and where required represent the CBS Technology team internally and externally.

You will be responsible for collaborating with the Business Owners & Sponsors to translate the Enterprise strategy into your portfolio (i.e. manifest in Portfolio Strategic Themes, Portfolio Vision and Guardrails). Role will also involve establishing the portfolio technology strategy and roadmap as well as Contributing to helping the portfolio and value streams adhere to the budget guardrails and driving the architectural design for the solution in the portfolio

You will conduct research and identify prototyping needs, understanding applicability and scope, and assessing the maturity of innovative new technologies and define cross-cutting Enabler Epics, typically spanning multiple value streams and Programme Increments (PIs).

We operate on a team led hybrid approach with 2-3 days per week in the Coventry & / or Manchester office. Role requires travel to other sites for key meetings and collaborative working subject to business demand. Role can be based in Coventry or Manchester.

About you

You will be highly effective at both written and verbal communication with substantial experience of writing committee papers and developing working relationships with key stakeholders at all levels, especially business leaders.

For this role you’ll need to have:

• Have an excellent understanding of architecture, associated strategies and frameworks.
• Have extensive experience shaping enterprise architecture and technology solutions for payment capabilities in financial services organisations; aligning regulatory obligations, operational resilience requirements and business growth objectives.
• Have well developed interpersonal, analytical, planning and organising skills, an attention to detail, a high level of accuracy and the ability to work on your own initiative.
• Be educated to degree level or equivalent and architecture certified e.g. TOGAF
• Have significant relevant strategy, enterprise architecture experience gained preferably in FS industry
• Have previous experience in-direct influencing and consulting with senior business leaders

Experience in these areas would be helpful:

• Able to think and talk to abstract, logical or theoretical concepts in a strategic and business context

Full time - 35 Hours

About us

This is a permanent role and is at P3 Lead Professional / Technical Grade in the IT Architecture job family

For all colleagues applying for our FTC roles, please note that this will be treated as a secondment opportunity.

Flexibility and why it matters.

We understand the need for flexibility, so wherever possible, we’ll consider alternative working patterns. Have a chat with us before you apply to see what the possibilities are for this role.

Proud to be a Disability Confident Committed Employer

We’re proud to offer an interview or assessment to every disabled applicant who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies. As part of the application process, disabled applicants can opt in for the Disability Confident Interview Scheme. If there are ever occasions where it is not practicable to interview all candidates that meet the essential criteria, such as when we receive a high number of applications, we commit to interviewing disabled candidates who best meet the minimum essential and desirable criteria.

Coventry-Binley Business Park, Hybrid, Manchester

Coventry-Binley Business Park, Hybrid, Manchester

Coventry-Binley Business Park, Manchester

£59,600 - £81,950 (Dependent on experience) plus £5,500 car allowance

Coventry-Binley Business Park, Hybrid, Manchester

Coventry-Binley Business Park, Hybrid, Manchester

Mortgages & Lending, Intermediary Development

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Up to £60,000 (dependant on relevant experience) plus car allowance & annual discretionary bonus