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SalaryThursday 02 May 2024
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£118,652 - £139,590
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Job Description
JOB TITLE: Lead Data Architect (Cloud)
SALARY: The salary banding for this role is £121,023 - £142,380
LOCATION: Manchester, Leeds, Halifax, Bristol or Edinburgh
HOURS: 35 hours, full time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.
About this opportunity
You'll be joining a dynamic Group Architecture Leadership team of Chief Architects which has accountability for both business aligned and technology domain strategy.
We collaborate closely with business and engineering leaders to drive strategy, deliver strategic roadmaps, provide thought leadership, and inspire adoption of modern technologies. We must view problems from many different perspectives and our architectural decisions must balance strategy with pragmatism to deliver the best outcome.
In this senior leadership role, you'll engage with executive leaders, advise them on how to leverage technology to achieve their outcomes and articulate options that balance the different drivers of change with accountability for all technical architecture decisions made.
This will involve:
- All architecture decisions made for the area you support.
- Build compelling architecture strategies and roadmaps with comprehensive inputs from Business, Engineering, Operations, Industry and Vendors. Pro-actively publicising and guiding the Group.
- Pro-actively drive forward the agenda to simplify and modernise our technology landscape.
- Keep pace with the latest industry direction and vendor offerings to ensure our strategies capitalise on new opportunities.
- Influence our investment portfolios and the direction of major change programmes to ensure strategic architecture outcomes.
- Build strong relationships and credibly communicate with key business and engineering collaborators across the organisation up to Exec Level
- Domain expert for architecture with deep and broad knowledge of technology, methodology and assurance techniques.
Why Lloyds Banking Group
From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we need colleagues who are up for the challenge of our bold ambitions. Who are excited to push boundaries and make change happen. Together, we can grow with purpose.
What you’ll need :
Broad experience covering many of the following, with a deep knowledge of at least one (‘T’ shaped):
- Cloud platform technologies covering IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services on Azure, GCP and AWS.
- Cloud database technologies focusing on GCP
- Relevant prior Data Architecture experience; Leading or being part of transformation in Data (e.g., move to advanced analytics/machine learning, data lake, big data, data democratisation)
- Data modelling and how that can help accelerate reuse of data and delivery of data consumption use cases
- Modern data technologies understanding e.g. Machine Learning and Generative AI
- Experience with data management capabilities like metadata, lineage, data quality, data privacy and data lifecycle management
- Familiarity with data regulations like GDPR
We also offer a wide ranging benefits package, which includes:
- A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
- An annual performance related bonus
- Share schemes including free shares
- Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
- 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
- A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.
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 to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.
