Principle Architect

End Date

Tuesday 21 May 2024

Salary Range

£118,652 - £139,590

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Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working

Job Description Summary

Takes accountability for the strategic direction of architecture at Directorate and Divisional level. Provides deep specialist skills and knowledge and acts as a trusted advisor and internal consultant to Transformation Directors. Looks to external best practice to shape, define and lead the technological and architectural vision to support agile delivery of solutions, whilst ensuring the right outcomes for the Group are delivered from a risk and business strategy perspective.

Job Description

Develops and improves relationships with Board members. Identifies priorities, issues and strategic challenges for a significant function or equivalent area of the business and prepares for discussion. Manage relationships with strategic internal customers and act as their business partner, while typically using large support teams to ensure their satisfaction. Represents the organisation in a variety of industry and professional forums to promote the value of the company brand especially for a significant area of responsibility e.g. a function. Meets the needs of significant customers related to complex, often customised products and services and/or manages a customer advisor department over a significant area. Takes responsibility for implementing formal development frameworks for a substantial department, while informally coaching and mentoring others throughout the organisation and investing in own personal development. Takes responsibility for fulfilling business plans for a significant functional business area by effectively leading a large team. Explores how significant external changes and innovations will influence and challenge the whole organisation. Takes overall responsibility for designing, developing, and delivering the strategic plan for product development for a significant area of the business. Proposes the broad strategy for the entirety of a small, less complex business or a large, relatively autonomous subsidiary or a (group of) business(es) or strategic function that has scale and groupwide reach and which is integral to the core purpose of the total organisation. Takes responsibility for developing and delivering a major part of the organisation's research programme to enable overall corporate strategy. Determines how a business and/or function needs to evolve over the mid-term or long-term in order to enable the success of the enterprise. Develops the strategy to achieve long-term business needs for a smaller, less complex businesses or a large, relatively autonomous subsidiary or a (group of) business(es) or strategic function which have scale and global reach and ensures implementation and execution of the strategy for the best benefit of the enterprise. Manages the development and/or delivery of an element of the organisation's strategic planning.

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.

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