Senior Enterprise Architect

Senior Enterprise Architect

Location: Edinburgh and Bristol

Salary range: £90,000 - £106,400

Hours: Full time, 35 hours per week

Working pattern: Hybrid – at least two days (40%) in office.

We’re looking for a Senior Enterprise Architect aligned to our Commercial Business Area. You bring a track record of building relationships, providing thought leadership, owning technology strategy, and influencing wider group strategies. You’re confident, passionate about architecture, and can build effective relationships up to the executive level.

• Own the enterprise architecture for your focus area and align it with the Group strategy.
• Deliver architecture decisions that empower commercial business teams to achieve the best customer outcomes.
• Partner with the Commercial Platform owners and senior business partners to evolve technology strategies and roadmaps.
• Champion the Bank’s architecture voice, evangelise strategies across enabling platforms, and collaborate with vendors to evolve services.
• Create and maintain architectural artefacts, promote practice, and facilitate delivery of the business roadmaps in an agile environment.

• Open, collaborative style; strong communication and relationship building at all levels.
• Deep understanding of the Commercial business domain, key products, market trends, regulatory and competitor landscapes.
• Strong storytelling and presentation skills.
• Demonstrable experience in technology architecture, including designing systems to meet business needs.
• Broad technology knowledge – domain‑driven models, microservices, event‑driven design, hybrid cloud, cloud providers, Dev Ops, CI/CD, modern data paradigms, cyber security, resilience, sustainability.
• Awareness of emerging technologies (Gen AI, Quantum computing, etc.) and their business applications.
• Proven success in continuous improvement and driving innovation.
• Experience in a regulated financial industry; complex organisations with large customer bases.

• Generous pension contribution up to 15%.
• Annual bonus (subject to Group performance).
• Share schemes including free shares.
• Benefits customised to lifestyle (discounted shopping, etc.).
• 30 days annual holiday, plus bank holidays.
• Well‑being initiatives and generous parental leave.

We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion, providing reasonable adjustments for disabled colleagues and participating in the Disability Confident Scheme. We offer a supportive environment for all.

Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level

Employment type: Full‑time

Job function: Information Technology

Industry: Banking