Business Architecture - Grade E

End Date Wednesday 08 March 2023
Agile Working Options Other Agile Working Arrangements / Open to Discussion Job Description Summary . Job Description The Business Architecture Team in the Chief Technology Office are going through a period of growth and we have a number of Business Architect roles we are currently recruiting for. Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) and our Chief Technology Office: LBG is the UK’s leading digital bank, with over 30 million customers across our three main brands, as well as the UK’s biggest mobile bank. Our culture in the Chief Technology Office brings together smart, talented and driven people from diverse backgrounds with the mission to deliver for our customers. Our people make that possible. Business Architecture – leading change across an exciting portfolio of work: The Business Architecture team sits within the heart of the Group Chief Operating Office (GCOO). We seek to identify capabilities to power transformation across the organisation. We provide shaping services for complex initiatives to help ensuring major new programmes are set up for success from the beginning. Some of our other activities include strategically sequencing delivery across the group portfolio, supporting Product Owners to set-up and shape new labs, and very importantly to protect our strategies by coordinating across Business Architecture, IT Architecture and Customer Experience Design. What will I do as a Business Architect?

• Act as a pioneer and disrupt, in order to enable, delivery of transformative change across the Bank. One of your main responsibilities would be ensuring that the end to end design is consistent with the wider bank's design, and work with the cross functional transformation team to drive these designs.
• If you love to drive the strategy, find chances to create valuable contributions and turn new ideas into reality then this could be the role for you.
• You'd help define the future state of the customer/colleague journey by leading shaping activity, and making clear which choices are best for our customers and colleagues.

What do we need from you?

• Highly motivated, proactive, and driven to achieve individual and collective goals and continuous improvement.
• Credibility in front of senior audiences, providing healthy challenge where appropriate and able to apply strong situational analysis and decision-making abilities.
• Comfortable working in a dynamic fast paced environment often with a degree of ambiguity.
• Ability to efficiently communicate ideas, issues, and implications to both senior, technical, and non-technical audiences.

Essential skills

• Background in Business Design or Business Analysis
• Change delivery experience across project or programme work
• Effective knowledge of financial services and products
• Complex problem solving

What will Lloyds Banking Group give me in return? As a multi-brand, multi-channel business, we have the scale and breadth to provide you with a diverse range of training and development opportunities, helping you achieve a rewarding and fulfilling career. Join us and be part of an inclusive, values-based culture focused on making a difference. Whatever your dream, you can also expect an industry leading range of benefits including: A discretionary performance-related bonus (last year the opportunity was up to forty percent of base salary at this grade)

• A base salary of between £52,912 and £85,982 (London) or £ 44,656.00 - 72,566.00 (rest of U.K) depending on your level of experience
• Fifteen percent employer pension contribution when you contribute eight percent
• Four percent flexible-benefits package
• Private health care
• Thirty days’ holiday allowance
• The opportunity to participate in discounted share schemes

Our ways of Working: LBG embraced agile working during the pandemic. We know that a 9-5 doesn't work for everyone and we are open to discussions about preferred working patterns with candidates. Colleagues in our team already work to several different patterns, including working from home, condensed hours and reduced hours. We’re committed to building a team which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Join us and be part of an inclusive, values-based culture focused on making a difference. 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'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.