Associate Enterprise Architect

End Date: Tuesday 16 December 2025

Flexible Working Options: Hybrid Working (at least two days per week at an office)

Job Title: Associate Enterprise Architect

Locations: Leeds and Halifax

Salary: £48,000 - £53,000

Hours: Full time, 35 hours per week

Working Pattern: Hybrid: at least two days per week (40%) at one of our office sites

About The Opportunity

We’re looking for passionate and collaborative Associate Enterprise Architects to help shape the future of our technology landscape. In this role, you’ll support the strategic direction of our architecture by contributing to roadmaps and patterns that guide our transformation journey. Working closely with senior architects and stakeholders across the business, you’ll play a key part in ensuring our solutions align with both our architectural vision and business strategy.

What You’ll Do

• Support architectural strategy across platforms and products, aligned with tech and business goals.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure technology decisions drive strategic outcomes.
• Assist in creating architectural documentation for governance and compliance.
• Contribute to agile delivery with architectural insight from concept to implementation.
• Research emerging technologies to inform design and foster innovation.
• Participate in governance and change initiatives to uphold architectural standards.
• Invest in your development and support a culture of learning and knowledge sharing.

What We’ll Need

Architecture & Technology

• Enterprise Architecture experience with good working knowledge of architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman, etc.) and exposure to a range of modern technologies.
• Cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure) and hybrid hosting architectures
• APIs, microservices, and modular applications
• Data strategies (data lifecycle, ETL, data modelling, governance)
• Cybersecurity
• Technology sustainability
• Payments, digital transformation, retail banking

Collaboration & Communication

• Strong communication and storytelling skills
• Ability to build trusted relationships across engineering, product, and business teams

Continuous Improvement

• Commitment to continuous learning and staying current with tech trends
• Willingness to drive process improvements and adopt best practices

About Working For Us

We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive team that reflects modern society. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and offer reasonable adjustments for candidates who need them.

• Up to 15% pension contribution
• Annual bonus award (subject to Group performance)
• Share schemes, including free shares
• Flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle
• 28 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
• Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave

Our Purpose

At Lloyds Banking Group, we’re driven by a clear purpose: to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference for customers, businesses, and communities. With us you’ll have a key role in shaping the financial services of the future while enjoying many opportunities to learn, grow, and develop.