Lead Network Architect: Secure, Scalable Enterprise Networking

Lloyds Banking Group; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous pension

Annual performance bonus

Share schemes

Wellbeing initiatives

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking a Lead Network Architect to shape the architecture behind its vast hybrid technology estate, aligning cloud, data centre, security and network services for millions of customers and thousands of colleagues.

You will lead architecture activities, define connectivity patterns, guide major transformations, and collaborate across architecture, delivery and engineering to ensure secure, resilient and compliant designs.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience crafting network architectures for large-scale, regulated organisations.
• Broad knowledge of data centre, cloud, campus, office and WAN networking domains.
• Ability to design, govern and assure network control architectures with security controls.

Responsibilities

• Lead solution architecture activities for the Bank network connecting data centres, offices and external services.
• Define reusable connectivity patterns and guide migration approaches for major transformation.
• Collaborate across architecture, delivery and engineering to align decisions with risk and compliance.

Skills

Solution architecture

Networking

Security

Enterprise standards

Migration planning

Stakeholder collaboration

Line management

Job description

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking a Lead Network Architect to shape the architecture behind its vast hybrid technology estate, aligning cloud, data centre, security and network services for millions of customers and thousands of colleagues.

You will lead architecture activities, define connectivity patterns, guide major transformations, and collaborate across architecture, delivery and engineering to ensure secure, resilient and compliant designs.