Enterprise Architect - #2088260

The Role

The Enterprise Architect will provide enterprise architecture capability within the CTO - Insurance(IP&I)/ Consumer/Commercial/Data & AI/Enterprise Functions. Working within agreed architectural direction, the role supports the development, documentation, and assurance of end to end architectures across multiple domains. This includes shaping solution designs, supporting feasibility assessments and roadmaps, producing architectural artefacts, identifying cross domain dependencies and risks, and contributing to architecture governance.

The role works closely with delivery, platform, and engineering teams to maintain architectural coherence while enabling pragmatic delivery.

The role requires strong technical architecture skills across applications, integration, data, infrastructure, and cloud platforms. This includes hands on capability in defining hybrid cloud and hosting architectures, API led and event driven integration patterns, and non functional design covering security, resilience, availability, and regulatory requirements. The Enterprise Architect is expected to produce and assess solution designs, architecture decision records, and target-state models, applying sound engineering judgement and trade off analysis. Success in the role depends on the ability to engage deeply with engineering teams, understand modern delivery practices, and working within technology guardrails from across the broader organisation.

Your responsibilities: (Up to 10, Avoid repetition)

• Produce highlevel architecture, future/north star and emerging technology views and roadmaps - with a view to start implementing 'ARchitecture as Code'

• Provide architectural guidance, including external expertise on trends and best practice for strategy, principles, standards and guardrails.

• Help with transition states, designs and architecture delivery

• Embedded within the programme and work with workstreams leads to help drive scope, requirements, archiecture and design roadmaps

• Stakeholder engagment both Internal and External involved in the programme

• Responsible for delivering designs, tooling strategy and data delivery patterns

Your Profile

Essential skills/knowledge/experience: (Up to 10, Avoid repetition)

Multiple roles across our Architecture Functions - Consumer and Digital x 3, IP&I x 1, Commercial x 5, Data & AI x 1 & Enterprise Functions x 3. and TS&I x 1.

Must be strong across architecture disciplines but also have a understanding and ability to take on 'Architecture as Code', concept of composiblty, ability to work across business domains and the capability to build architecture components themselves

Desirable skills/knowledge/experience: (As applicable)

Multiple tech skills across a range of technologies to support the CTO Architecture Platforms. Stakeholder Management, Architecture, Banking knowledge, Blockchain, DLP, Payments, Loans, Cards, Pensions, Markets, Machine Learning, Cloud Services, Agentic AI and Artificial Intelligence.