Enterprise Architect

We are seeking an Enterprise Architect with experience in either or both Data & Payments domains to provide strategic technology leadership across our Payments and Data landscape, bridging business strategy with robust, scalable technical delivery. This role is critical in shaping, governing, and evolving enterprise‑wide Data and Payments architectures that support high‑volume, mission‑critical transaction processing across BUK.

You will define and maintain data‑centric and payments‑focused technology roadmaps, ensuring strong alignment across platforms, integration layers, and downstream consumers. A core part of the role is establishing and enforcing clear architectural principles, standards, and patterns for payments processing, data flows, reference data, and event‑driven architectures. Working closely with senior stakeholders, you will assess emerging technologies and industry trends, provide architectural governance across BUK, and offer hands‑on architectural guidance to Needs Labs.

All solutions must align to BUK architecture strategy and standards, with a strong emphasis on data integrity, resilience, security, regulatory compliance, and cost efficiency, particularly within complex payments ecosystems. This is an opportunity to influence technology direction at scale, driving consistent, high‑quality architectural outcomes that underpin secure, scalable, and compliant payments and data platforms across the organisation.

To be successful in this role, you will need experience with:

• Enterprise Data Architecture & Platforms.
• Deep payments domain & rail architecture mastery.
• Infrastructure & platform architecture expertise.

Some other highly desired skills are:

• Data Governance, Risk and Regulatory Controls.
• Strategic Data Leadership & Road mapping
• Architecture governance, risk & control.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as strong experience in project management, stakeholder management and planning as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role can be based in any of the following locations:
London, Northampton, Knutsford or Glasgow.

To develop, and evolve the banks technology architecture through relevant solutions, strategies and execution plans aligned to and prioritized by business and technology objectives, including the development, evolution and adoption of foundational platforms and products.

• Development, evolution and implementation of the banks technology architecture and strategies aligned to the business and technology objectives, unlocking execution and run.
• Collaboration with stakeholders, including Enterprise Architecture teams and other developers to provide subject matter expertise and share knowledge to foster continuous improvement, and clients to understand and deliver on their technical needs.
• Motivation and leadership of a diverse collection of technologists, business and operations teams and enterprise leaders, with goal to align business & technology strategy & standards, identifying opportunities and connecting people.
• Assessment of new technologies to address current and future business needs, through a combination of curiosity and problem-solving skills.
• Determination of the optimal solutions while balancing continuous requirements imposed by compliance, governance, security and funding, through deep understanding of the business and customer outcomes and maintaining a strong and steady grasp on the underlying technologies.
• Monitoring and analysis of the performance, resiliency and stability of applications to identify and resolve issues and communicate and document key findings to stakeholders.
• Compliance with applicable regulatory standards and identification of industry developments that may impact the banks operations and controls to enhance the banks application portfolio.
• Support of engineering and architecture community initiatives to mentor team members, streamline operations, share and grow knowledge.

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/…