Overview

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Location and working pattern

LOCATIONS: Edinburgh, Bristol, Manchester, Leeds, Halifax or London

HOURS: Full time, 35 hours per week

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 the opportunity

We're looking for passionate and collaborative Associate Enterprise Architects to help shape the future of our technology landscape. In this role, you'll support the strategic direction of our architecture by contributing to roadmaps and patterns that guide our transformation journey. Working closely with senior architects and stakeholders across the business, you'll play a key part in ensuring our solutions align with both our architectural vision and business strategy.

What you'll do

• Support architectural strategy across platforms and products, aligned with tech and business goals.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure technology decisions drive strategic outcomes.
• Assist in creating architectural documentation for governance and compliance.
• Contribute to agile delivery with architectural insight from concept to implementation.
• Research emerging technologies to inform design and foster innovation.
• Participate in governance and change initiatives to uphold architectural standards.
• Invest in your development and support a culture of learning and knowledge sharing.

What we'll need

Enterprise Architecture experience with good working knowledge of architecture frameworks (e.g. TOGAF, Zachman, etc.) and exposure to a range of modern technologies including some of the below:

• Cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure) and hybrid hosting architectures
• APIs, microservices, and modular applications
• Data strategies (data lifecycle, ETL, data modelling, governance)
• Cybersecurity
• Technology sustainability
• Payments, digital transformation, retail banking

Strong communication and storytelling skills

Ability to build trusted relationships across engineering, product, and business teams

Commitment to continuous learning and staying current with tech trends

Willingness to drive process improvements and adopt best practices

About working for us

We're committed to building a diverse and inclusive team that reflects modern society. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and offer reasonable adjustments for candidates who need them. Our benefits include:

• Up to 15% pension contribution
• Annual bonus award (subject to Group performance)
• Share schemes, including free shares
• Flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle
• Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave

If you're excited by the thought of joining our team, we'd love to hear from you!

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology
• Banking

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