Senior Enterprise Architect (CTO)

Lloyds Banking Group; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 107,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services organization in the UK is seeking a Senior Enterprise Architect (Cloud) to lead transformation initiatives and define cloud strategies. The role requires collaboration with stakeholders to deliver secure and scalable platforms. Candidates should have strong communication skills, deep knowledge of architecture principles, and proven application-level architecture experience. This position offers a salary of £90,000 - £106,400, with a hybrid working model and great benefits including pension contributions and performance bonuses.

Benefits

Up to 15% pension contribution

Annual performance bonus

Share schemes

Flexible benefits

30 days holiday allowance

Wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Strong communication and storytelling skills to engage senior stakeholders.
• Deep knowledge of cloud-native technologies and traditional on-premise.
• Proven experience in engineering focused on Cloud Native solutions.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve cloud strategies aligning with Group priorities.
• Lead transformation initiatives delivering scalable platforms.
• Create architecture roadmaps and provide technical leadership.

Skills

Strong communication skills

Knowledge of architecture principles

Application-level architecture experience

Awareness of emerging tech like Gen AI

Driving innovation in complex environments

Job description

JOB TITLE: Senior Enterprise Architect (Cloud)
SALARY: £90,000 - £106,400
LOCATION(S): Bristol, Manchester, Edinburgh or Leeds
HOURS: Full-time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid - spend at least two days per week, or 40% of your time, at one of the office above

Shape the future of cloud architecture and make a real impact for millions of customers.

About this opportunity

We're looking for a Senior Enterprise Architect to join our Chief Technology Office (CTO - Cloud). This is a hands‑on leadership role where you'll influence strategy, guide transformation, and collaborate across the Group to deliver resilient, modern platforms. You'll work with senior stakeholders and engineering teams, balancing technical depth with business outcomes to accelerate change.

The candidate we're seeking will have both hands‑on engineering and architectural capabilities, and wish to evolve maintain a balance between them as part of their role within the team in support of our public cloud, private cloud and engineering platforms.

Day to day, you will:

• Define and evolve cloud and platform strategies that align with Group priorities
• Lead transformation initiatives to deliver secure, scalable platforms across public and private cloud
• They are accountable for continually influencing, challenging, and supporting the Enabling Platform teams to build and align their strategic roadmaps, alongside acting as the voice of the customer and facing into all the Business Platforms to enable delivery of the business roadmaps, and guiding Cloud (Public & Private) product delivery.
• Create clear architecture roadmaps and standards, providing governance and technical leadership
• Build trusted relationships with senior leaders and technical teams to influence decisions
• Champion modern engineering practices including microservices, DevOps, and event‑driven design
• Drive innovation and continuous improvement while mentoring colleagues and sharing expertise

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We're on an exciting journey and there couldn't be a better time to join us. We're investing in people, data, and technology to unlock fresh possibilities and new ways to work, learn, and thrive.

What you'll need:

• Strong communication and storytelling skills to engage senior stakeholders
• Deep knowledge of architecture principles and modern technologies, with a solid understanding of both traditional on‑premise and cloud‑native technologies.
• Proven application‑level architecture and engineering experience, focused on Cloud Native solutions with modern development languages. and guiding engineering teams
• A desire to maintain, balance and deepen your technical and engineering skills alongside your architectural capabilities.
• Awareness of emerging tech like Gen AI and Quantum, with the ability to assess business impact and architectural implications.
• A track record of driving innovation and continuous improvement in complex environments
• Experience in large, regulated organisations (financial services preferred)

Desirable:

• Shaping enterprise‑scale cloud strategies and roadmaps
• Influencing platform teams to deliver customer‑focused outcomes
• Designing for non‑functional requirements and performance at scale
• Executive‑level stakeholder engagement and collaboration

About working for us

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we're committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long‑term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

Benefits:

• Up to 15% pension contribution
• Annual performance bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle
• 30 days holiday allowance plus bank holidays
• Wellbeing initiatives and family‑friendly policies

Ready to start growing with purpose? Apply today.