Senior Enterprise Architect – Digital Platform & GenAI; Hybrid

End Date Tuesday 10 March 2026

Salary Range £72,702 - £80,780

Flexible Working Options Job Share

Job Title Enterprise Architect

Locations Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, Bristol, Halifax

Hours Full Time – 35 Hours per week

Working Pattern Hybrid: at least two days per week, or 40% of time at an office site

This is an exciting opportunity for two highly hands‑on Enterprise Architects to join the Group’s CTO organisation at the heart of the UK’s biggest digital banking group. Ideal for ambitious engineers or technologists looking to extend their influence, these roles put you close to cutting‑edge digital technology and give you the platform to shape how it drives value at scale.

You will provide practical, engineering‑aligned technology leadership across modern digital capabilities – including agentic, LLMs, digital protocols, wallet technologies, digital assets and emerging ecosystem models – helping teams turn complex concepts into deliverable outcomes.

You will bring strong ownership, integrity and a collaborative mindset, working directly with teams across the Group who share strong values and a clear purpose. Each successful candidate will be aligned to the most relevant area within Consumer & Digital Architecture, based on their technical depth, experience and ability to influence the future direction of our digital platforms and customer propositions.

In conjunction with Consumer and Digital Architecture 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 will be accountable for continually influencing, challenging and supporting the relevant 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 relevant product delivery.

You’ll also be 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 will be key, as well as acting as 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.

• Hands‑on experience with advanced and emerging technologies (e.g., GenAI, quantum, digital identity, digital protocols, wallet technologies, digital assets, ecosystem models), with a habit of actively researching, experimenting, prototyping and evaluating new capabilities to determine their real‑world value, maturity and applicability to long‑term strategy.
• An open, collaborative, approachable and friendly style
  , working effectively with both senior and junior engineering and product colleagues to build strong relationships, break down barriers and influence direction across the Group.
• Passion, energy and strong ownership
  , driving your architecture portfolio forward with a laser‑sharp focus on delivering value to customers, clients and the wider business.
• Gravitas and impact
  , using compelling written and verbal storytelling to communicate architectural decisions, influence stakeholders and align priorities.
• A proven background in enterprise or solution architecture and/or engineering
  , with a solid understanding of architecture principles, frameworks and hands‑on technology practices.
• Strong understanding of modern digital technology
  , spanning applications and infrastructure – e.g., containerised microservices, private/public cloud, APIs, event‑driven patterns and platform engineering.
• Recent experience translating architecture into outcomes
  , converting roadmaps and models into actionable delivery portfolios that support organisational change, including large scale and strategic programmes.
• Broad technology…