Senior Enterprise Architect; Markets and Investments

End Date Friday 23 October 2026

Salary Range
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Job Description Summary .

Job Description

JOB TITLE:

Senior Enterprise Architect (Markets / Investment Banking)

LOCATION:

London, Edinburgh or Bristol

HOURS:

Full-Time WORKING PATTERN:
Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in London, Edinburgh or Bristol office sites

About us Our Markets business is growing fast, and this is an exciting opportunity for an Enterprise Architect to shape our future target architecture. You will help solve meaningful business challenges by applying modern technology and building strong partnerships across the organisation.

You will support the Markets platform by designing clear and actionable architectures that strengthen Lloyds Banking Group’s client offerings and contribute to our mission of Helping Britain Prosper. This is a collaborative role where your ideas and expertise will influence both business outcomes and technology direction.

About the role

As the lead Enterprise Architect you will lead a small team and be accountable for all architectural decisions within your area. You will guide, challenge, and support the Markets teams as they develop and deliver strategic roadmaps. You will also represent the voice of the business when working with Group Enabling Platforms to ensure technology delivery aligns with business priorities.

You will build trusted relationships across platforms, functions, and third‑party vendors. Your insight into Markets / Investment banking will help shape business propositions, vendor products and industry partnerships so they better support our Commercial clients.

You will work in an agile environment on complex and high‑impact challenges. The role calls for leadership, problem solving, and the ability to bring clarity to technical and business decisions. Enterprise Architecture at Lloyds Banking Group plays a key role in setting direction and ensuring that architecturally significant outcomes are delivered.

What you’ll need Strong experience in Markets / Investment Banking, with a strong understanding of front-to-back trading technology.

Experience of Enterprise Architecture ideally in Markets/ Investment Banking Experience shaping current, target and transition architectures, with clear roadmaps and practical technology strategies. Broad architecture knowledge across business, applications, data, infrastructure and security, including market and reference data. Experience leading architecture governance and design decisions for a business facing architecture team

An understanding of resilience, disaster recovery, automation, observability and production readiness, alongside Dev Sec Ops , CI/CD and automated testing. Strong stakeholder skills, with the ability to influence senior Technology, Risk and Business leaders and turn complex requirements into clear direction

About working for usOur ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability…