Join us as a Lead Enterprise Architect You’ll be joining our Debt Management and Bereavements leadership team as the Lead Architect, making a difference to our customers and their families at often difficult and sensitive times in their lives You'll work with the Platform Lead, running an Architecture team making sure that solutions are designed and delivered to support the business outcomes and long term strategy for the bank, business areas and Technology Take on an important role, and gain valuable exposure, as you'll partner across technology and business teams to create an understanding oftechnology considerations and build a roadmap of activity that addresses priority areas What you'll do As a Lead Enterprise Architect, you’ll be defining the end state architecture for Debt Management and  Bereavements end-to-end service. You’ll be making sure that the architecture links to,and is informed by, our overall strategy and architecture, and produces the architecture outcomes. We’ll look to you influence the development of business strategies at an organisational level, identifying transformational opportunities for our businesses and technology areas associated with both new and existing technologies. Working as part of a Technology leadership team, you'll drive value into the organisation collaboratively with teams and colleagues. As well as this, you’ll be: Partnering with other teams and architects to create the artefacts and understanding to inform direction Translating architecture roadmaps into packages of work that allow frequent incremental delivery of value to be included in product backlog Defining, creating and maintaining architecture models, roadmaps, standards and outcomes, using architecture strategies to ensure alignment to adjacent and higher level model Working closely with business owners, portfolio managers, product managers and release managers to define the target intentional architecture Leading complex and technically challenging architectural transformations, coordinating design and platform teams across domains Seeking out and utilising continuous feedback, fostering adaptive design and engineering practices to drive the collaboration of programmes and teams around a common technical vision Driving the innovation and exploration of new technologies and capabilities The skills you'll need To succeed in thisrole, you’ll need expert knowledge of application architecture, and at least one business, data or infrastructure architecture with working knowledge of the remaining disciplines. You’ll have excellent communication skills with the ability clearly communicate complex technical concepts to colleagues across business and technology areas, up to senior leadership level, along with a good understanding of Agile methodologies with experience of working in an Agile team. In addition, you'll bring sound leadership skills to lead your team and contribute to the domain leadership, along with innovation and future capability awareness. You’ll also demonstrate: Experience of designing, delivering and implementing solutions in a highly regulated debt management environment Experience of working with 3rd party vendors in a debt management environment Experience of defining business and application architectures and roadmaps for complex enterprises An understanding of the commercial considerations and implications on architecture and solution choices An understanding of industry architecture frameworks, such as TOGAF and ArchiMate Knowledge of change delivery with preferred experience of programme delivery Knowledge of hardware, software, application, and systems engineering