Lead Network Architect – Enterprise Connectivity (Hybrid)

Lloyds Bank plc; Leeds, Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 93,000 - 109,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension 15%

Annual bonus

Share schemes

Discounted shopping

30 days holiday

Parental leave

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking a Lead Network Architect to shape and govern the network, security and cloud connectivity across the enterprise. You will lead design patterns for data centres, offices, and external services to ensure resilience, security and enterprise alignment.

Join a collaborative team; drive architecture decisions, governance and migration plans, while working in a hybrid model with Leeds or Manchester offices and strong leadership responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Experience crafting network architectures for large, regulated organisations.
• Broad knowledge of data centre, cloud, campus, office and WAN networking.
• Ability to design and govern network control architectures for security and performance.
• Experience producing architecture work including target state and governance submissions.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture activities for Bank network across data centres, offices and external services.
• Define reusable connectivity patterns and migration approaches for transformations.
• Collaborate across architecture, delivery, engineering, security and operations.

Skills

Network architecture

Enterprise architecture

Cloud networking

Security architecture

Leadership & mentoring

Tools

Cisco

Job description

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking a Lead Network Architect to shape and govern the network, security and cloud connectivity across the enterprise. You will lead design patterns for data centres, offices, and external services to ensure resilience, security and enterprise alignment.

Join a collaborative team; drive architecture decisions, governance and migration plans, while working in a hybrid model with Leeds or Manchester offices and strong leadership responsibilities.