JOB TITLE: Lead Data Architect (Cloud)

SALARY: The salary banding for this role is £121,023 - £142,380

LOCATION: Manchester, Leeds, Halifax, Bristol or Edinburgh

HOURS: 35 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 dynamic Group Architecture Leadership team of Chief Architects which has accountability for both business aligned and technology domain strategy.

We collaborate closely with business and engineering leaders to drive strategy, deliver strategic roadmaps, provide thought leadership, and inspire adoption of modern technologies. We must view problems from many different perspectives and our architectural decisions must balance strategy with pragmatism to deliver the best outcome.

In this senior leadership role, you'll engage with executive leaders, advise them on how to leverage technology to achieve their outcomes and articulate options that balance the different drivers of change with accountability for all technical architecture decisions made.

This will involve:

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 publicising and guiding the Group.
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 up to Exec Level
Domain expert for architecture with deep and broad knowledge of technology, methodology and assurance techniques.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we need colleagues who are up for the challenge of our bold ambitions. Who are excited to push boundaries and make change happen. Together, we can grow with purpose.

What you'll need:

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.
Cloud database technologies focusing on GCP
Relevant prior data architecture experience; Leading or being part of transformation in Data (e.g., move to advanced analytics/machine learning, data lake, big data, data democratisation)
Data modelling and how that can help accelerate reuse of data and delivery of data consumption use cases
Modern data technologies understanding e.g. Machine Learning and Generative AI
Experience with data management capabilities like metadata, lineage, data quality, data privacy and data lifecycle management
Familiarity with data regulations like GDPR

We also offer a wide ranging benefits package, which includes: