We are investing in simplifying, modernising, and transforming our technology landscape, and we are looking for a Lead Architect for Personal Unsecured Lending (including credit cards, loans, and financial wellbeing) to drive this change.
This role defines, upholds, and communicates the Technology Strategy and direction to support the Group's vision and strategic intent, with a clear focus on the capabilities needed to ensure long-term success, aligning our Technology agenda with the Group's Strategy.
The Lead Architect will join our Personal Unsecured Lending team, which includes the Card, Loans, and Financial Wellbeing Platforms. This is a key role supporting the Consumer Lending Business Unit, a major part of the Group's growth strategy.
You need experience in building relationships, developing trust, providing thought leadership to business and technology change delivery colleagues, owing the technology strategy for your area of focus, and maintaining alignment with and influencing wider Group strategies. You should be a confident leader, passionate about architecture and making a difference, able to build effective relationships at all levels, including Executive level.
You will make a difference by:
1. Proposing the architectural strategy for Loans, Cards, and Financial Wellbeing, managing its development and delivery in line with the Technology and Consumer Lending strategies.
2. Driving the definition of architecture roadmaps, guardrails, and patterns to enable change over the medium and long term, ensuring they meet the needs of significant customers with complex, often customised products and services.
3. Integrating business design, customer outcomes, deep understanding of the architecture, and the Technology Strategy to drive the right enterprise outcomes.
4. Setting the direction for change management in the platform to enable major change programmes, taking responsibility for critical projects.
5. Defining governing policies and participating in governance forums to ensure adherence to roadmaps, guardrails, and patterns, aligned with Group and Technology strategies.
6. Acting as a business partner to board members and senior leaders to ensure technology delivers on business outcomes.
7. Conducting external research to stay updated on industry best practices, technology, customer, and product trends, and applying this knowledge to business design activities.
8. Leading a team of architects specialising in Personal Unsecured Lending to ensure architecture aligns with group and technology strategy.
9. Having a proven track record in an Architect role, successfully driving architecture vision and strategy.
10. Possessing skills in corporate governance, business control, solution development, and design.
11. Having technical knowledge of Public/Private Cloud, APIs, traditional hosting, and event-driven architectures.
12. Demonstrating architectural expertise, including feasibility assessments and road-mapping.
13. Exhibiting personal strengths such as an agile mindset, digital approach, strong communication, leadership, and alignment with company values. An open, collaborative, approachable style that works well with all levels.
14. Showing passion, energy, ownership, and a focus on delivering value to customers and clients.
15. Operating with gravitas and impact at a director level, utilizing strong storytelling skills, both written and verbal, to communicate recommendations effectively.
We're on an exciting journey, with investments leading to innovative projects, new possibilities, and opportunities for our people to work, learn, and thrive. We are committed to inclusivity, diversity, and creating a workplace where everyone feels they belong and can be their best. We welcome applications from under-represented groups and are disability confident.
Our benefits include:
* A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
* An annual bonus, subject to Group performance
* Share schemes, including free shares
* Flexible benefits such as discounted shopping
* 30 days' holiday plus bank holidays
* Wellbeing initiatives and parental leave policies
If you want to do meaningful work that makes a difference, join us! At Lloyds Banking Group, our purpose is to help Britain prosper. We offer opportunities to learn, grow, and develop, while building a diverse and inclusive culture. We prioritize data safety and are committed to a values-led environment where all colleagues can thrive.
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