Enterprise Architect - CTO - Commercial - Cross Divisional

End Date: Tuesday 30 December 2025

Salary Range: £70,929 - £78,810

Job Description

Summary:

We're currently seeking a Senior Enterprise Architect to join our Commercial business area.

Job Title: Enterprise Architect
Location: Edinburgh or Bristol
Hours: Full-Time
Working Pattern: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in Edinburgh or Bristol office site

We're currently seeking an Enterprise Architect aligned to our Business and Commercial Banking, Enabling CIO business area. You’ll be experienced in building relationships and developing trust, providing thought leadership to business and technology change delivery colleagues, and maintaining alignment with and influencing the wider Group strategies. You'll be a confident individual, passionate about architecture and making a difference, able to build effective relationships at all levels (up to and including Executive level).

This is an opportunity for an architect who is enthusiastic about Digital, AI, Cloud, Data and engineering technologies to deliver business value in a pivotal position within the Group. An individual with a solid sense of ownership and integrity who enjoys working and collaborating with teams across the Group and who has strong values and clear purpose.

In conjunction with Enabling Platform owners and senior partners across the Bank, you will build, evolve, and promote clear and comprehensive technology strategies that align with Group strategy and enable business teams to deliver the best customer outcomes. You are accountable for continually influencing, challenging, and supporting the Enabling Platform teams to build and align their strategic roadmaps, alongside acting as the voice of the customer and facing into all the Business Platforms to enable delivery of the business roadmaps, guiding Cloud (Public & Private) product delivery.

You’ll collaborate with key internal customers to build, maintain and evangelise clear and integrated technology strategies. You’ll be analysing the needs of our business partners to understand the modern technology platform capabilities and improvements that they need to deliver effectively and efficiently for their customers.

Building and sustaining strong and productive partnerships with platforms and functions, promoting, communicating, and evangelising the Bank’s strategies. Building relationships with third party vendors and cloud service providers, acting as a senior partner to help them evolve their products and services to better meet the needs and strategies of large enterprise customers such as the Group.

This is an agile environment working on challenging problems requiring dedication and leadership to help drive the transformation agenda. Working collaboratively and cultivating trust to get results.

• An open, collaborative, approachable and friendly style, working well with both senior and junior colleagues, building strong relationships, and breaking down barriers.
• Gravitas and impact. You’ll use strong storytelling skills, both written and verbally, in how you present your communication recommendations in line with priorities. You can back up your opinions with facts and well-reasoned thinking.
• Proven background in enterprise architecture with an understanding of architecture principles and frameworks.
• Good understanding of modern technology from applications to infrastructure (e.g. containerised micro-services, cloud, API etc.).
• Experience in Commercial banking domains including Core banking, Payments, Channels is a plus.
• Point of view on emerging tech in areas like Digital assets and Digital identity.
• Recent experience of translating architecture models and roadmaps into packages of work that drive organisational change (including strategic core programmes), to improve business outcomes.
• Good technology knowledge across various topics including (but not limited to) domain driven models, microservices, event‑driven design, hybrid cloud deployment models, cloud service provider technologies, Dev Ops, CI/CD, modern data paradigms, cyber security, resilience by design and sustainability.
• Awareness of emerging technologies (e.g., Gen AI, Quantum…