Platform Architecture Leader - Cloud, Data & Core Banking

Skipton Building Society; Cracoe; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Leave allowance

Pension match

Mortgage access

Flexible working

Private medical

Wellbeing app

Job summary

Skipton Building Society is seeking a Senior Technology Architecture Manager to shape the technology landscape and lead Platform Architecture across cloud, data, digital, core banking and integration platforms.

You will partner with Enterprise and Solution Architecture to deliver secure, scalable, and resilient solutions, influencing technology direction across the organisation. A hybrid work model with office presence is available, supporting collaboration and delivery.

Qualifications

• Senior architecture leadership experience such as Enterprise/Head of Architecture roles.
• Proven ability to build and lead high-performing architecture teams.
• Strong transformation experience delivering large-scale technology change.
• Exceptional stakeholder influence, including Executive teams.
• Deep architectural expertise with strategic thinking and simplification.
• Enterprise-wide perspective across complex business and technology landscapes.
• Collaborative, curious and pragmatic approach aimed at positive outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Shape Skipton's technology future through platform architecture strategy and transformation.
• Influence enterprise-wide decisions across cloud, data, digital, core banking and integration platforms.
• Define architectural roadmaps and future-state platform capabilities.
• Partner with senior leaders to guide investment, priorities and technology direction.
• Drive simplification and engineering excellence through architecture standards, guardrails and automation.
• Lead and develop Platform Architects, building capability and a strong architecture community.
• Accelerate modernisation by enabling scalable, resilient and low-risk technology change.

Skills

Architecture leadership

Team leadership

Transformation delivery

Stakeholder influence

Strategic thinking

Enterprise-wide view

Job description

Skipton Building Society is seeking a Senior Technology Architecture Manager to shape the technology landscape and lead Platform Architecture across cloud, data, digital, core banking and integration platforms.

You will partner with Enterprise and Solution Architecture to deliver secure, scalable, and resilient solutions, influencing technology direction across the organisation. A hybrid work model with office presence is available, supporting collaboration and delivery.