Senior Enterprise Architect - CTO - Cloud, Infrastructure & Engineering Architecture

Lloyds Banking Group; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 107,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in the UK seeks a Senior Enterprise Architect (Cloud) to shape cloud architecture and deliver resilient platforms. In this hands-on leadership role, you will influence and guide transformation initiatives, working closely with senior stakeholders. Candidates should possess deep knowledge of cloud-native technologies and a track record of driving innovation. The position offers hybrid working with a competitive salary and a range of benefits including a pension contribution and annual performance bonus.

Benefits

Up to 15% pension contribution

Annual performance bonus

Share schemes including free shares

30 days holiday allowance plus bank holidays

Wellbeing initiatives and family-friendly policies

Qualifications

• Experience in cloud architecture and engineering.
• Ability to influence and engage senior stakeholders.
• Knowledge of modern engineering practices such as DevOps.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve cloud and platform strategies.
• Lead transformation initiatives for secure, scalable platforms.
• Build trusted relationships with senior leaders and technical teams.

Skills

Strong communication and storytelling skills

Deep knowledge of architecture principles

Proven application-level architecture experience

Desire to maintain technical and engineering skills

Awareness of emerging tech like Gen AI and Quantum

Track record of driving innovation

Experience in large organizations

Tools

Cloud Native technologies

Modern development languages

Job description

End Date

Saturday 03 January 2026

Salary Range

£90,440 - £106,400

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

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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.

Additional Insight

At Lloyds Banking Group, we’re driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you’ll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you’ll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we’ll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We’ll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.

We’re focused on creating a values‑led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.