Overview

Position Title: Enterprise Architect – Group Architecture
Location: London
Corporate Title: Vice President

Group Architecture (GA) is part of the Technology, Data & Innovation (TDI) division. GA accelerates the delivery of a bank-wide simplified target architecture to enhance agility, speed-to-market and cost efficiency. Activities include coordinating target architectures and roadmaps, implementing governance frameworks, deploying strategic tools, ensuring design discipline, and establishing policies and standards. The Architecture Strategy team coordinates target state architecture definition and execution, aligned with TDI strategies and standards to reduce duplication, increase capability, and balance cost. In this role, you will work as part of a small team on architecture strategy focused on driving outcomes such as cross-division target-states, assessing programme compliance to target-states and ensuring the target-architecture is optimised.

What We’ll Offer You

A healthy, engaged and well-supported workforce helps employees do their best work and enjoy life inside and outside the workplace. We are committed to development and wellbeing at the centre of our environment.

• Hybrid Working — eligible employees can work remotely part of the time.
• Competitive salary and non-contributory pension
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, with option to purchase extra days
• Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family
• Flexible benefits including Retail Discounts, Bike4Work, and Gym benefits
• CSR programme with 2 days’ volunteering leave per year

Your Key Responsibilities

• Assist the architecture strategy pillar lead in defining the architecture tooling strategy and blueprint
• Work on architecture initiatives and deliverables such as cross-divisional target-states
• Contribute to defining the strategic digital architecture framework and building a digital architecture and management information system (A&MI)
• Leverage architecture data to improve decision making
• Produce high-quality architecture reporting that serves as a standard across Group and Domain Architecture
• Encourage better ways of working and embed architecture and design into our culture, refining how we do architecture across the firm

Your Skills And Experience

• Experience in Financial Services in an architecture role
• Experience collaborating with stakeholders to document current states, develop target and transition architectures, and roadmaps
• Experience with architecture governance, including defining and assessing compliance to architecture principles
• Ability to summarise complex architecture/design challenges for senior management
• Strong knowledge of ArchiMate modelling language

How We’ll Support You

• Training and development to help you excel in your career
• Coaching and support from team experts
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
• Flexible benefits you can tailor to your needs

About Us

Deutsche Bank is a leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. Deutsche Bank in the UK is recognised for diversity and inclusion, including being named in The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2024 and Gold Award from Stonewall. If you have a disability or health condition, contact Adjustments Concierge at adjustmentsconcierge@db.com to discuss support during the application process. We strive for a culture where we excel together, act responsibly, think commercially, take initiative and work collaboratively. We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.