Data Architect

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End Date: Monday 08 December 2025

Salary Range: £86,964 - £102,310

Flexible Working Options: Flexibility in when hours are worked, Hybrid Working, Job Share

JOB TITLE: Data Architect
SALARY: £90,440 - £106,400
LOCATION(S): Halifax or Leeds
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 our Halifax or Leeds Office.

Lloyds Banking Group is the largest provider of mortgages in the UK, with over 2 million active mortgages. We have placed mortgages at the heart of our strategy to become the best bank for customers. Our team in the Homes Platform is passionate about creating new services for our customers that transform the customer and colleague experience. Our culture brings together smart, hardworking people from diverse backgrounds who enjoy a collaborative and innovative environment that supports flexible and agile working.

We're creating a new strategic data capability to unlock significant business opportunities, supporting our objectives to create personalised data‑driven customer experience and insight‑driven business decisioning. As a Data Architect, you’ll contribute across key aspects of delivery from initiation through design and into delivery and beyond. You’ll be a design authority for a lab or group of products and possess expert knowledge of multiple applications, technologies, and business processes across several platform domains.

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• Working as part of an Agile team of architects and engineers, you'll cultivate collaboration through your extensive expertise and influence.
  
• Using data technology expertise, you'll identify opportunities to unlock its value to the business.
  
• Deliver the best technical solutions for complex or significant business needs, where no precedent may exist.
  
• Ensure compliance with the Bank’s IT architecture design and all regulatory, mandatory, and statutory requirements, protecting the Bank at all times.
  
• Run and chair technical design meetings to achieve purposeful outcomes, active involvement in architecture and design governance.
  
• Contribute to the financial investment process to obtain funding for key solution opportunities.
  
• Participate in risk management, using it to influence change planning and delivery.
  

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• Excellent knowledge of data technology of complex enterprise systems, modern cloud‑hosted data solutions, integration patterns, DevOps, and data and event stream technologies and broad experience with in‑house and vendor‑written applications.
  
• Ability to support negotiations to gain agreement from senior stakeholders, seeing the big picture and translating business priorities into technical solutions.
  
• Experience working on multiple products simultaneously and understanding the relationships between them.
  
• Understanding of risk management concepts and how to factor this into work prioritization models.
  
• Strong understanding of and experience with enterprise architecture principles and data strategy.
  
• Experience with risk, infrastructure, resilience, and security architecture practices and concerns.
  
• Able to communicate effectively with technical and non‑technical audiences, from end‑users to senior stakeholders.
  
• Experience working on a Public Cloud – Azure, GCP or AWS.
  

Our focus is to ensure we’re inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity, or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it is why we especially welcome applications from under‑represented groups. We’re disability confident – if you would like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

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• 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
  

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.