Enterprise Architect – Data
Agile Working Options
Other Agile Working Arrangements / Open to Discussion
Job Description
Job Title: Enterprise Architect - Data
Salary: £85,255 to £105,000
Location(S): Leeds, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Halifax, Manchester
Hours: Full time
Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites
About this opportunity
You'll be joining a small, dynamic team of strategy setting Enterprise Architects, centered on the technology enablers that support all our colleague and customer services. For example: Cloud, Infrastructure, Data and API services. This role is focused on the Enterprise & Data Architecture responsibilities and skills for the Data & Analytics domain.
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 our architectural decisions must balance strategy with pragmatism to deliver the best outcome.
In the role, you'll be aligned to a technology enabler focused on Data & Analytics capabilities, engaging with senior leaders, advising them on how to utilise technology to achieve outcomes and articulate options that balance the different drivers of change.
The successful candidate will be working in the EA Data & Analytics team that is responsible for setting the strategy for the bank’s data architecture and providing technical architecture direction across Business platforms in order to align and deliver the target state.
Why Lloyds Banking Group
Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too.
What you would be doing
Our data architecture team supports workloads across a wide range of data repositories including relational and NoSQL databases, data warehouses and data lakes. We're focused on modernising our data technology ecosystem through real-time streaming with Kafka and public cloud services like BigQuery. 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.
The successful candidate for this role will have a strong background in Enterprise and Data Architecture, with extensive experience of developing information management strategies & solutions end-to-end. They must be able to show demonstrable and established experience with the skills to provide:
- Leading and applying architectural thinking to strategies and business objectives
- Hands-on knowledge of delivering information management solutions at scale
- Architecting, developing best practices and selecting strategic tooling across the Enterprise Data & Analytics domains e.g.
- Data warehouse, BI and analytics
- Data integration, batch, stream and associated modelling
- Data management platforms
- Data modelling principles, activities, & tooling - logical to physical
- Machine learning & Artificial intelligence
- Strong knowledge of industry best practices in Data architecture both cloud based and on premise, including migrations
- Mapping key Enterprise data entities to business capabilities and applications
- Communication and presentational skills, confident with a methodical approach, and able to work within a team environment.
The candidates for this role should also be able to define detailed transition states (i.e., current, interim, target) through roadmaps and supporting artifacts. This will be supported with technical knowledge of Data Domain capabilities with hands-on experience of requirements assessment, technology selection within RFP/RFQ frameworks and implementing technologies at a Group level.
What you’ll need
- Experience as an Enterprise Architect with knowledge of building compelling architecture strategies and roadmaps with comprehensive inputs from Business, Engineering,
- Hands-on knowledge of delivering information management solutions at scale
- Architecting, developing best practices, and selecting strategic tooling across the Enterprise Data & Analytics domain e.g.
- Data warehouse, BI and analytics
- Data integration, batch, stream, and associated modelling
- Data management platforms
- Data modelling principles, activities, & tooling - logical to physical
- Machine learning & Artificial intelligence
- Strong knowledge of industry best practices in Data architecture both cloud based and on premise, including migrations.
- Mapping key Enterprise data entities to business capabilities and applications
- Communication and presentational skills, confident and methodical approach, and able to work within a team environment.
About working for us
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. 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. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
- A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
- An annual performance-related bonus
- Share schemes including free shares
- Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
- 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
- A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more.
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.
We are proud supporters of Women in Data®. Connect, engage and belong to the largest free female data community in the UK – visit: www.womenindata.co.uk to join our community.