Enterprise Architect - London, United Kingdom - Appcastenterprise
Description
End Date
Sunday 05 February 2023
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Job Description Summary
- Job Description
Who?
Lloyds Banking Group is the UK's leading digital bank, with over 16 million online customers, we're the UK's largest mobile bank.
This is driving the need to invest £Bs to innovate, modernise and simplify our technology further. We're looking for architecture leaders to help drive this transformation.
Technology is at the heart of our business and architecture is at the heart of technology leadership - it is an integral part of our corporate strategy.
Our goal is to ensure our services are based on modern, scalable and resilient technologies that deliver value to both our customers and our business.
About the role
Our culture brings together inquisitive and driven people from a diverse group of backgrounds where all can thrive.
You'll be joining a small, dynamic team of strategy setting Enterprise Architects, focused on the technology enablers that support all our colleague and customer services
For example:
Cloud, Infrastructure, Data and API services.
We collaborate closely with business and engineering leaders across the organisation to drive strategy, deliver strategic roadmaps, provide thought leadership and inspire innovative solutions.
We must view problems from many different perspectives and ourarchitectural decisions must balance strategy with pragmatism to deliver the best outcome.
In the role, you'll be aligned to a technology enabler engaging with senior leaders, advising them on how to utilise technology to achieve outcomes and articulate options that balance the different drivers of change.
More About our Technology Enablers:
Data
Our data architecture team supports workloads across a wide range of data repositories including relational and NoSQL databases, data warehouses and data lakes.
We develop strategic direction for our data models, optimise data for performance and reuse, embed data management controls, and drive exploitation of our data assets using analytical tools and AI/ML models.
Cloud
Enterprise scale solutions on both private and public clouds platforms, including Azure, GCP and AWS at web-scale; Cloud Native principles and supporting technologies (e.g., Microservices, DevOps, Containers & CI/CD); Public Cloud security tools and technologies;large-scale workload migrations from traditional hosting technologies to Public or Private Cloud.
Infrastructure
Our Infrastructure platforms cover a wide range of traditional hosting (X86 Wintel/Linux, Midrange Unix, Mainframe), networking, operational tooling, and datacentre services.
Much of the focus in this area is modernising and simplifying our technology enabling agile, efficient change that can deliver secure, resilient, and cost-effective solutions at pace.
Api
In response to customers choosing different ways of integrating with us, we are leading transformation of how we deliver digital capability to best meet customer needs.
About you
You're a forward-looking and enthusiastic enterprise architect who can combine thought leadership, a passion for change, an ability to logically decompose complex problems and influence all levels of the organisation.
You'll typically have broad architecture experience spanning a variety of traditional, modern, and emerging technologies, ideally but not critically, in a financial or regulated industry.
Key accountabilities
- All architecture decisions made for the area you support.
- Build compelling architecture strategies and roadmaps with comprehensive inputs from Business, Engineering, Operations, Industry and Vendors.
- Proactively drive forward the agenda to simplify and modernise our technology landscape.
- Keep pace with the latest industry direction and vendor offerings to ensure our strategies capitalise on new opportunities.
- Influence our investment portfolios and the direction of major change programmes to ensure strategic architecture outcomes.
- Build strong relationships and credibly communicate with key business and engineering collaborators across the organisation including CxOs.
- You're an authority for an architecture domain with deep and broad knowledge of technology, methodology and assurance techniques.
Desirable technical experience:
Broad experience covering many of the following, with a deep knowledge of at least one ('T' shaped):
- Cloud platform technologies covering IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services on Azure, GCP and AWS.
- Hybrid hosting architecture of cloud and tradition platforms including Midrange Unix and Mainframe technologies.
- API architecture standards including OpenID Connect profiles, API gateways, microservices including event driven architectures.
- Data trends including relational, NoSQL databases, data warehouses and data lakes.
- Designing critically important systems which have challenging service parameters, for example RPO/RTO Zero.
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