Enterprise Architect, Payments

Lloyds Banking Group

Enterprise Architect for the Group Payments team shaping technology strategies. Supporting architectural direction to meet the Group’s strategic ambitions.

Posted 5/28/2026full-timeEdinburgh • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSenior💰 £72,702 - £80,780 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Support the development and evolution of architecture within the Payments domain, ensuring alignment to Group strategy
Work closely with Lead Architects to create and maintain architecture roadmaps, patterns and guardrails
Act as a trusted partner to technology and business teams, providing architectural guidance and insight
Contribute to architecture governance, ensuring solutions meet standards, risk requirements and strategic objectives
Develop and maintain architecture artefacts, including designs, roadmaps and feasibility assessments
Apply knowledge of cloud, APIs, traditional hosting and event-driven architectures to support solution design
Collaborate with cross-functional teams in an agile environment to deliver end-to-end outcomes

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience working in an Architecture role, contributing to strategy, solution design and delivery
Knowledge of architecture practices including governance, roadmapping and solution development
Technical understanding of cloud platforms, APIs, traditional hosting and event-driven architectures
Ability to support business and technology stakeholders, translating requirements into architectural solutions
Strong communication and collaboration skills, with an agile and delivery-focused mindset
An understanding of Payments within Financial Services
Awareness of emerging technologies such as blockchain and digital assets and their potential application

Benefits

Comp & perks

A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
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

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Hard Skills & Tools

architecturesolution designcloud platformsAPIstraditional hostingevent-driven architecturesarchitecture governanceroadmappingfeasibility assessments

Soft Skills

communicationcollaborationagile mindsetdelivery-focused