Enterprise Architect – Data

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You will 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 Data & Analytics architecture.

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 different perspectives and our architectural decisions must balance strategy with pragmatism to deliver the best outcome.

In the role, you will be aligned to a technology enabler focused on Data & Analytics capabilities, engaging with senior leaders, advising them on how to use 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 to align and deliver the target state.

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 are 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 of:

• 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 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.

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.

About you

You are 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 will typically have broad architecture experience spanning a variety of traditional, modern, and emerging technologies, ideally but not critically, in a financial or regulated industry.

You will have a background in strategy setting, enterprise architecture or technology consulting roles. Ideally, you will have had experience in engineering and solution architecture during your career. You define architecture direction in the context of industry trends and understand how that can bring value to the organisation.

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.
• Pro-actively 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 are 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.
• Broad appreciation of cyber security (e.g., zero trust) and the architectural implications it has on application design.
• Modern progressive technologies – e.g., machine learning, artificial intelligence, block chain etc.

We are also passionate about diversity and equal opportunity with industry recognition across gender, ethnicity, disability, LGBTQ+ and families. Being disability positive, reasonable adjustments can be accommodated in our Recruitment process, just let us know.

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.

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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.

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